Welcome!

I'm a professor of software engineering at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden. My main research interests are in the area of secure software engineering, with focus on:

Privacy-by-design and security-by-design (threat analysis, precise modeling and analysis of security & privacy properties in software architecture, patterns)
Empirical methods for security (controlled experiments and mining software repositories)

I spend my spare time taking photographs (see my photos here).

Short bio

Prof. Riccardo Scandariato received his PhD in Computer Science in 2004 from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. In 2005, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Politecnico di Torino, with the Software Engineering research group. In 2006, he joined the DistriNet research group at KU Leuven, Belgium. In 2014, he moved to Gothenburg (Sweden) and joined the department of Computer Science and Engineering, which is shared between the Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg.

Prof. Scandariato's main research interests are in the area of secure software engineering, with a particular focus on (i) privacy & security by design and (ii) empirical methods for security. He has published over 80 papers in the area of security and software engineering. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (IJSSE) and a member of the Review Editorial Board of Frontiers in ICT. He regularly participates to the Program Committees of several top-rated conferences in the area of security and software engineering.

Publications

I am the co-author of over 80 publications. Click here for a complete list. This is my Google Scholar page.

PhD students

I have the privilege of supervising the following PhD students:

Mazen Mohamad, working on security assurance cases
Katja Tuma, working on security threat modeling of automotive software
Tomasz Kosinski (as co-supervisor, main supervisor being Morten Fjeld), working on privacy of IoT
Alexander van den Berghe (at KU Leuven), working on analyzing security properties in design
Laurens Sion (at KU Leuven), working on code annotations for security

Former PhD students

Koen Buyens, graduated in January 2012. Analyzing software architectures for least privilege violations
Thomas Heyman, graduated in March 2013. A formal analysis technique for secure software architectures
Kim Wuyts, graduated in January 2014. Privacy Threats in Software Architectures
Koen Yskout, graduated in April 2013. Connecting security requirements and software architecture with patterns

Service

See this page for a list of conferences and workshops I am and have been involved in.