Navigating Graphs for Fun and Profit Speaker: Matteo Dell’Amico senior principal researcher, Symantec Abstract: How to decide who to trust on the Internet? How to save your system from an attack of fake users? How to ensure that your password is strong? How to schedule jobs so that your system runs smoothly? How to create a machine learning system that spares you from converting data to numeric vectors? In this talk, I'll give an overview of various problems that I encountered in my research, and I will show solutions that, in many cases, involve finding paths in graphs. Short Bio: Matteo Dell'Amico is a senior principal researcher at Symantec. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Genoa; before Symantec, he also worked at University College London and EURECOM in France. His research interests include algorithms and data structures, distributed and decentralized systems, computer security and recommender systems. Date: June 13th, 2018 – 15:00 - 16:00 Location: DIBRIS Conference Room - Via Dodecaneso 35, Genova (III floor, room 326bis)
