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Francesco Corvaglia

Ph.D. candidate in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi , 41st cycle (2025-2028)
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)

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PhD

Research topic

Security and Resilience of IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems through Open-Source RISC-V Architectures

Tutors

Keywords

Computer architectures and Computer aided design
Cybersecurity

Biography

The specific objectives of the PhD project are defined as follows:
- Design and validation of RISC-V based hardware/software cybersecurity solutions
- Develop and validate high-performance security modules integrated into RISC-V platforms, carefully balancing performance, energy consumption, and hardware resource usage through advanced algorithmic optimization and integrated hardware/software co-design.
- Integration of real-time security techniques into RISC-V architectures
- Implement and evaluate real-time security countermeasures, such as low-latency cryptographic systems, continuous low-power monitoring, and rapid threat detection and response mechanisms, while maintaining compliance with the strict requirements of cyber-physical and industrial applications.
- Development and experimentation of adaptive security methods with AI and advanced hardware monitoring on RISC-V platforms
- Create adaptive hardware/software security solutions by leveraging machine learning techniques and RISC-V's built-in monitoring and logging capabilities to promptly detect cyberattacks. This includes designing mechanisms for proactive anomaly detection, correlating information from hardware registers, and automatically activating targeted countermeasures in response to emerging threats.

Research

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