About
Dr Leonardo Aniello is an Associate Professor in Cyber Security in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖÆåÅÆ_Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖAPP-¹ÙÍø|ÏÂÔØ. He is also
- Member of the GCHQ/EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖÆåÅÆ_Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖAPP-¹ÙÍø|ÏÂÔØ
- AI & Security champion of the GCHQ/EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖÆåÅÆ_Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖAPP-¹ÙÍø|ÏÂÔØ
- Member of the management group of the ECS Centre for Internet of Things and Pervasive Systems (C-IoT)
- Senior Admissions Tutor for PGR students in ECS, and manages the ECS Undergraduate Research Scholarship scheme
Dr Aniello obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering in Computer Science in 2014 from "La Sapienza" University of Rome, with a thesis about techniques for efficient processing Big Data in large-scale collaborative environments.
He has been a visiting researcher at IBM Research Lab in Haifa (Feb to Apr 2012), Department of Computer Science at Royal Hollow University of London (May 2013) and University of Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖÆåÅÆ_Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖAPP-¹ÙÍø|ÏÂÔØ (Sep to Dec 2017).
He started a lectureship at University of Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖÆåÅÆ_Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖAPP-¹ÙÍø|ÏÂÔØ in 2018 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022.
His research is currently focused on distributed systems and cyber security, including adaptive resource allocation strategies, blockchain-based systems and application of machine learning techniques to cyber security. He is author of more than 30 papers (h-index 16, 1759 citations, source Google Scholar), published on international conferences, journals, and books.