Gianluigi Folino

Senior Researcher

ICAR-CNR

Biography

Gianluigi Folino is a senior researcher at ICAR-CNR, the Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking of the Italian National Research Council.

Lecturer at the University of Calabria and the University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro. He has been an advisor of several master theses and PhD thesis in computer engineering at the University of Calabria.

His research interests focus on applications of distributed computing and data mining in the areas of cybersecurity, big data, and bioinformatics.

Co-founder of HFactor Security, an innovative startup aimed at mitigating the risks correlated to the human factor of a company by using machine learning and artificial intelligence-based techniques applied to Big Data.

Visiting researcher at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) in 2007 and 2009, at Radboud University, Nijmegen (Netherlands), in 2008 and 2009 and at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, in 2013.

In the Editorial Board of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, and chair for the special session ”Multi-Agent and Bio-Inspired Algorithms and Applications for Distributed Systems” at IEEE PDP 2007 and for the workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (BADS 2009, 2010 and 2011) at ICAC conference and guest editor for Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2010, New Generation Computing Systems, Springer, 2011 and Natural Computing, Springer, 2013.
Habilitation as Full Professor in Computer Science Engineering (9/H1, Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni).

Interests

Cyber Security
Big Data
Data Mining

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Radboud University, Nijmegen
MSc in Engineering in Computer Science

University of Calabria

Projects

Within ICAR-CNR, he has been contributor and coordinator of several national and international research/industrial projects, mainly on thematics of Cybersecurity; i.e., the Horizon 2020 Project, Cyber Security Network of Competence Centres for Europe (CYBER4EUROPE).

Currently, he is the coordinator for the SPOKE 1 (Digital Sovereignty) of the PNRR Project SEcurity and RIghts in the CyberSpace (SERICS) and collaborates to the Spoke 3, In searCh Of eVidence of stEalth cybeR Threats (COVERT).

2013-2016: coordinator of the project “Cyber Security – Digital and electronic payment services protection”, funded by MIUR;
2018-2019: coordinator of the project SPIDASEC (SPID Advanced Security) processi e tecnologie innovative per la diffusione e la protezione dell’identità digitale basata su SPID.

Teaching

Ambienti di Programmazione e Programmazione Mobile (Lucidi e materiale sul gruppo Teams del corso), Terzo anno di Ingegneria Informatica e a scelta nella magistrale, Università della Calabria

Vecchi corsi

Ambienti di Programmazione per il Software di base

Proposte di tesi

Monitoraggio utente in ambito Cybersecurity, Federated Learning e Ensemble di Classificatori, Sicurezza in ambito IoT e Mobile, Digital Sovereignty

Recent Publications

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Francesco Folino, Gianluigi Folino, Francesco Sergio Pisani, Pietro Sabatino, Luigi Pontieri (2024). A Scalable Vertical Federated Learning Framework for Analytics in the Cybersecurity Domain. Proceedings - 2024 32nd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2024.

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Francesco Folino, Gianluigi Folino, Massimo Guarascio, Luigi Pontieri, Paolo Zicari (2024). Towards Data- and Compute-Efficient Fake-News Detection: An Approach Combining Active Learning and Pre-Trained Language Models. SN Computer Science.

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Erica Coppolillo, Carmela Comito, Marco Minici, Ettore Ritacco, Gianluigi Folino, Francesco Sergio Pisani, Massimo Guarascio, Giuseppe Manco (2023). Fighting Misinformation, Radicalization and Bias in Social Media. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

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P. Zicari, M. Guarascio, L. Pontieri, G. Folino (2023). Learning Deep Fake-News Detectors from Scarcely-Labelled News Corpora. International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS - Proceedings.

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Gianluigi Folino, Massimo Guarascio, Francesco Chiaravalloti (2023). Learning ensembles of deep neural networks for extreme rainfall event detection. Neural Computing and Applications.

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Featured Publications

Gianluigi Folino, Carla Otranto Godano, Francesco Sergio Pisani (2023). An ensemble-based framework for user behaviour anomaly detection and classification for cybersecurity. Journal of Supercomputing.

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Massimo Guarascio, Gianluigi Folino, Francesco Chiaravalloti, Salvatore Gabriele, Antonio Procopio, Pietro Sabatino (2022). A Machine Learning Approach for Rainfall Estimation Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

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F. Folino, G. Folino, M. Guarascio, F.S. Pisani, L. Pontieri (2021). On learning effective ensembles of deep neural networks for intrusion detection. Information Fusion.

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Fabio Gori, Gianluigi Folino, Mike S.M. Jetten, Elena Marchiori (2011). MTR: Taxonomic annotation of short metagenomic reads using clustering at multiple taxonomic ranks. Bioinformatics.

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Fabrizio Angiulli, Gianluigi Folino (2007). Distributed nearest neighbor-based condensation of very large data sets. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

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