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Giulia Fanti is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests span the algorithmic foundations of blockchains, distributed systems, privacy-preserving technologies, and machine learning. She is a fellow for the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity, and has received a best paper award at ACM Sigmetrics and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She obtained her Ph.D. in EECS from U.C. Berkeley and her B.S. in ECE from Olin College of Engineering.

Office
2118 Collaborative Innovation Center
Phone
412.268.4254
Email
gfanti@andrew.cmu.edu
Assistant
Grace Bintrim
Google Scholar
Giulia Fanti
Websites
Giulia Fanti’s website

Algorithmic Foundations of Blockchains

Education

2015 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California - Berkeley

2012 MS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California - Berkeley

2010 BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Olin College of Engineering

Media mentions


CMU Engineering

Wambui Njogu’s path to a career in cybersecurity

On a journey that’s taken her from Kenya to Rwanda to Pittsburgh, MSIT student Wambui Njogu looks back on the experiences that instilled her passion for cybersecurity and how she developed her skills at CMU-Africa.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CMU-Africa Week showcases research and culture

The CyLab Security and Privacy Institute recently hosted CMU-Africa Week on CMU’s Pittsburgh campus. In its first year, the event aimed to build collaboration around research problems in Africa.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

First round of Future Enterprise Security Initiative funded projects announced

CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative is underway as the first round of funded proposals has been announced.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab’s Giulia Fanti receives 2022 Rising Star Award

ACM SIGMETRICS named CyLab’s Giulia Fanti the recipient of the 2022 Rising Star Research Award for her “fundamental and interdisciplinary research on scalable systems for data sharing that ensures security and privacy.”

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

NSF awards CMU researchers $3M to accelerate next-gen networking, computing

CyLab researchers will use nearly $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help develop intelligent, resilient and reliable next-generation (NextG) networks.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab researchers awarded AI security funding

CyLab’s Giulia Fanti, Corina Pasareanu, and Vyas Sekar have been awarded research funding from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

“Adulting” for cybersecurity, GANs, and more: CyLab’s 2022 seed funding awardees

Over $400K in seed funding has been awarded to 18 different faculty and staff across seven departments at Carnegie Mellon to support security and privacy research.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab’s Giulia Fanti named a 2021 Intel “Rising Star”

The prestigious award recognizes 10 promising early-career academic researchers who lead some of the most important technology research of our time.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab names 2021 Presidential Fellows

Four high-achieving CyLab Ph.D. students pursuing security and/or privacy-related research have been awarded CyLab Presidential Fellowships.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

Third round of Secure and Private IoT Initiative funded projects announced

Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has announced its third round of funding, which will support 12 Internet of Things (IoT)-related projects for one year.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CMU-Africa and CyLab aim to improve financial inclusion in emerging economies

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) CyLab and CMU-Africa have established the CyLab-Africa initiative, which aims to improve the cybersecurity of financial systems in Africa and other emerging economies.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Fanti and Lucia Receive 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship

ECE’s Giulia Fanti and Brandon Lucia are recipients of the 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship, which honors early career scholars whose achievements put them among the very best scientific minds working today.