Marino Miculan

Disce, sed a doctis, indoctos ipse doceto.

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I am Professor of Computer Science at the 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.

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

My current research focuses on ensuring the security and trustworthiness of distributed, component-based, and smart systems. These interconnected systems involve numerous heterogeneous components, which makes analyzing their behavior a complex challenge. To address this, I leverage formal methods to develop novel models, languages, methodologies, and verification techniques to specify, analyze, and ensure the security and trustworthiness of these systems. If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to reach out.

Besides, I know something about type theory, proof assistants, logical frameworks, nominal sets, category theory and categorical logic, process calculi, coalgebras, semantics, session types, bigraphs, distributed ledgers.

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)

May 13, 2025 Talk in the seminar "Frontiers of cyber-resilence: between safety and security"
Apr 5, 2025 Our paper Attribute-based Communication over Pub/Sub: Transactional Coordination for Smart Systems has been accepted at the 45th International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems (FORTE 2025).
Mar 6, 2025 Our paper On the Axioms of 𝓜,𝓝-Adhesive Categories has been published on Logical Methods in Computer Science.
Mar 2, 2025 Partecipating to EWSCS 2025 PhD Winter School
Feb 20, 2025 I have been promoted to Full Professor in Computer Science. I’ll officially begin my new role on October 1, 2025. Ad maiora!

selected publications (more)

  1. Castelnovo, Davide ; Miculan, Marino: On the Axioms of 𝓜,𝓝-Adhesive Categories. In: Logical Methods in Computer Science vols. 21 (2025), Nr. 1
  2. Paier, Matteo ; Van Eeden, Roberto ; Miculan, Marino: Formal Analysis of Multi-Factor Authentication Schemes in Digital Identity Cards. In: Madeira, A. ; Knapp, A. (eds.): International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2024 : Springer, 2024. — Best Paper Award — ISBN 978-3-031-77382-2, pp. 423–440
  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