Roberto Tamassia

Roberto Tamassia is a computer scientist at Brown University whose research includes information security, applied cryptography, algorithms, and data structures. His security work has focused in part on authentication methods and protocols.

Authentication in distributed systems

Security is not only about keeping data secret: systems must also establish integrity, provenance, and correct access. Tamassia's research has developed cryptographic techniques and prototypes for authenticating data in distributed settings.

Teaching and research

His work also reflects the role of computer-security education in the field. Brown records that he developed an early-access computer systems security course and has worked across security, cryptography, algorithms, and theory.

Timeline

• 1984Receives a laurea in electrical engineering from Sapienza University of Rome.
• 1988Completes a PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and joins Brown University.
• 2005Develops a Brown course in computer systems security.
• 2007Begins service as chair of Brown's computer science department.
• 2020sContinues research and teaching in security and applied cryptography at Brown.