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Giulia Fanti is the Angel Jordan Associate 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


Atlantic Council

Fanti and Sowon suggest improving the way governments regulate technology

Giulia Fanti and Karen Sowon were among the co-authors of an article in Atlantic Council suggesting ways in which governments could more effectively regulate new technologies while avoiding setbacks.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab researchers present their work at 2024 SOUPS

Carnegie Mellon faculty and students shared their research at the 2024 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), which took place August 11-13 in Philadelphia.

Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering

Fanti receives Angel Jordan professorship

Giulia Fanti has been named the new Angel Jordan Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

Navigating digital financial inclusion in Africa

As the presence of mobile phones becomes increasingly widespread in Africa, digital services have allowed for more financial inclusion among low- and middle-income countries within the continent. A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers led by Karen Sowon, a postdoctoral researcher at CMU’s CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, investigated these issues and recently published a paper on "The Role of User-Agent Interactions on Mobile Money Practices in Kenya and Tanzania."

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab announces second round of Secure Blockchain Initiative funded projects

Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Initiative (SBI) has announced its second round of funded proposals, providing $90K to three groundbreaking research projects that are exploring the security and privacy of distributed ledger technology.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab researchers present research at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

CyLab faculty members and students presented their research on topics ranging from mobile money practices in Africa to uncovering and identifying side-channel and evasion attacks at the 45th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Symposium on Security and Privacy.

Carnegie Mellon University Africa

Releasing private population analytics: How should we do it?

Population analytics is a concept that has important downstream applications, like determining funding allocations, but these analytics can leak sensitive data about individuals.

CMU-Africa

Gueye, Fanti selected for UN initiative

CMU-Africa’s Assane Gueye and ECE’s Giulia Fanti were named among a diverse group of experts to work on an initiative from the United Nations to develop a safeguards framework to guide digital public infrastructure (DPI) design and implementation around the world.

Carnegie Mellon University Africa

CMU faculty selected for UN-led working group on DPI safeguards

Assane Gueye and Giulia Fanti have been selected by the United Nations Office of the Secretary-General Envoy on Technology to be part of a working group for the DPI Safeguards initiative.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

2024 NSF CAREER Awards

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded CyLab faculty members and Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professors Giulia Fanti, Guannan Qu, and Akshitha Sriraman the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a prestigious five-year grant given to junior faculty for research and education.

CMU Engineering

2024 NSF CAREER Awards

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Giulia Fanti, Guannan Qu, and Akshitha Sriraman, all assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering, the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

Carnegie Mellon University Africa

Understanding the security of mobile apps in Africa

Researchers from CyLab-Africa and the Upanzi Network recently partnered with the mobile security provider Approov to explore the security of common financial services apps used across Africa.