Roberto TamassiaProfessor

His research interests include data security, applied cryptography, analysis, design, and implementation of algorithms,
graph drawing and computational geometry. He has published seven books and more than 250 peer-reviewed research articles in the above areas and has given more than 70 invited lectures worldwide. He has been granted 11 patents as an inventor. He is an AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow and the recipient of a Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society for pioneering the field of graph drawing. He has been listed among the 360 most cited computer science authors by Thomson Scientific, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). He serves regularly on program committees of international conferences.His research has been funded by ARO, DARPA, NATO, NSF, and several industrial sponsors (including Google, Microsoft, NetApp, and Sun Microsystems).