Livio Pompianu

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Livio Pompianu

Research Unit Coordinator

Research Interests: Information Security, Cryptocurrency Frauds, Blockchain Analytics, Design Patterns for Smart Contracts, IoT

About Me

Livio Pompianu is an Assistant Professor (RTDa) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari.

He began his research career at the University of Cagliari while completing his MSc, later continuing as a PhD candidate (2014–2018) and subsequently as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2017, he was a visiting PhD student at the University of Stirling (UK). He obtained his PhD in 2018 with a dissertation entitled "Analysing blockchains and smart contracts: tools and techniques".

His research originates in the field of information security, with a particular emphasis on distributed ledger technologies, and extends to their integration with the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud computing. His goal is to design techniques that enable the secure combination of these technologies, creating advanced information processing systems that are not only grounded in state-of-the-art approaches but also equipped with the security guarantees provided by blockchains. These systems are conceived to be effectively applied in industrial contexts. He is a member of the research groups Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain@Unica, and Trustworthy Computational Societies.

Dr. Pompianu has co-authored over 50 journal articles and conference papers in these areas, which have collectively received more than 1500 citations on Google Scholar. He has also served as the Work Package Lead for the Security for Workers and Energy Certifier projects, and has participated in several research initiatives, including Nomad, Social GlueScore, and Intellicredit.

Publications (26)