From HPC to Security: How to Change Research Focus and Survive – A Career Perspective

This talk focuses on discussing a personal research experience through different, and, in principle, disconnected research topics. More specifically, the talk highlights a research path that started from HPC and Grid Computing and has lead to topics related to Computer Security and Privacy. The talk covers a period of 12 years, between 2005 and 2017, with the aim to show how it is possible to start a research career from specific research interests during the Ph.D., and then end up by joining a totally different research community some years later. The talk will also highlight how cross-fertilization among different research areas could positively impact their State-of-the-art.