Marino Miculan

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(Ph.: G.T.Bernardi)

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Deputy Head at Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics of the University of Udine, with a second affiliation at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. (Qualified to Full Professor since March 2018.)

This website collects some information about my current and past research, including my publications, the scientific projects and events I am involved in, my teaching activities and academic services.

My current research focuses on ensuring security and trustworthiness of distributed, component-based, and smart systems. These systems involve intricate interactions of numerous heterogeneous components, making their behavior complex to analyze. To address this challenge, I leverage formal methods (potentially with a pinch of machine learning) to develop novel models, languages, methodologies, and verification techniques to formally analyze and ensure the security and trustworthiness of these systems.
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Besides, I know something about type theory, proof assistants, logical frameworks, nominal sets, category theory and logic, process calculi, coalgebras, structured operational semantics, session types, bigraphs, systems biology, distributed ledgers. (In a sense, I am a horizontal researcher.)

I founded and currently lead the Models and Applications of Distributed Systems laboratory, the Udine node of the CINI National CyberSecurity laboratory, and the MadrHacks, the ethical hacking team of the University of Udine. I have the fortune to work with great people.

latest news (more)

Oct 8, 2024 I am honored to serve as Associate Editor for the Smart Contracts section of the journal Frontiers in Blockchain.
Oct 2, 2024 Talks about Cyber Risk and Financial Systems, at "PN Trading Places"
Sep 26, 2024 Today I am attending the workshop “Informazione, sicurezza e nuovi fattori di rischio” at Centro Alti Studi Difesa – Scuola Superiore Universitaria, in Rome.
Sep 20, 2024 Talk about Blockchain and Agrifood, at the 4th Gra.MA.R. workshop
Sep 8, 2024 snakeCTF 2024 🐍 ended!

selected publications (more)

  1. Van Eeden, Roberto ; Paier, Matteo ; Miculan, Marino: A Formal Analysis of CIE Level 2 Multi-Factor Authentication via SMS OTP. In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography - SECRYPT : SciTePress, 2024 — ISBN 978-989-758-709-2, pp. 483–491
  2. Pasqua, Michele ; Miculan, Marino: Behavioral equivalences for AbU: Verifying security and safety in distributed IoT systems. In: Theoretical Computer Science vols. 998 (2024), p. 114537
  3. Pasqua, Michele ; Miculan, Marino: AbU: A calculus for distributed event-driven programming with attribute-based interaction. In: Theoretical Computer Science vols. 958 (2023), p. 113841
  4. Miculan, Marino ; Vitacolonna, Nicola: Automated Verification of Telegram’s MTProto 2.0 in the Symbolic Model. In: Computers & Security (2023), p. 103072
  5. Stolze, Claude ; Miculan, Marino ; Di Gianantonio, Pietro: Composable partial multiparty session types for open systems. In: Software and Systems Modeling, Springer (2023), Nr. 22, pp. 473–494