Maura Pintor is an Assistant Professor at the PRA Lab, in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari, Italy.

Research. She obtained her PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the University of Cagliari in 2022. Her PhD thesis, "Towards Debugging and Improving Adversarial Robustness Evaluations", provides a framework for optimizing and debugging adversarial attacks. She was a visiting student at Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany, from March to June 2020 and at the Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH), Austria, from May to August 2021. She is co-chair of the ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec, co-located with ACM CCS), and she serves on the program committee of ICLR, ICCV, NeurIPS (Top Reviewers), and ACSAC.

 

Positions Held

• 2023-present: Assistant Professor, University of Cagliari, Italy
• 2022-2023: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cagliari, Italy

Education

• Ph.D., Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, Italy, 2022 (with honors)
• M.Sc., Telecommunications Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy, 2018 (with honors)
• B.Sc., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy, 2016

Society Memberships

• 2018-present: Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• 2018-present: Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• 2022-present: Member of the Int’l Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

Editorial Boards

• 2023-present: Associate Editor of Int’l Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Selected Chair of/Programme/Technical Committee Memberships in Conferences and Workshops

Workshop/Track Chair

• 2024: Co-chair at Safe, Secure and Robust AI Track at the SAC24 Conference
• 2023: Co-chair at 16th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec 2023), co-located with ACM CCS.
• 2023: Co-chair of ESANN 2023 Special Session "Towards Machine Learning Models that We Can Trust".
• 2022: Co-chair at ARES International Workshop on Continuous Software Evaluation and Certification (IWCSEC 2022).
• 2022: Co-chair at ITASEC AI for Security and Security of AI Workshop (AISSAI 2022).

Reviewer for Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE T-IFS).
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP).
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC).
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE-TNNLS).
• ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS).
• Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS).
• Eurasip Journal on Information Security.
• Machine Vision and Applications (MVAP).

Conference Reviewer

• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP).
• Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2024).
• Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023).
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC).
• International Conference on Computer Vision(ICCV 2023).
• International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023).
• PC member for more than ten workshops co-located with top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICCV, CCS).

Last updated: Dec. 19th, 2023