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.
Algorithmic Foundations of Blockchains
Research Interests
- AI and ML for security
- anonymity
- blockchain
- cryptography
- data security and privacy
- data/network science systems
- energy modeling
- Formal methods
- grid and energy infrastructure
- grid-interactive, high-performance, and electrified buildings
- ML and AI
- network security
- privacy
- privacy algorithms
- public policy and regulation
- secure systems
- security and privacy economics
- security of AI and ML
- Usability and human behavior
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab announces third round of Secure Blockchain Initiative funded projects
Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Initiative (SBI) has announced its third round of funded proposals, providing $130K to six groundbreaking research projects that are exploring the security and privacy of distributed ledger technology.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Improving privacy for digital public goods
Researchers with the Upanzi Network have developed recommendations for the Digital Public Goods Alliance to increase transparency about users’ data privacy.
mosip16.9
Upanzi Network featured for Digital ID Hackathon initiative
CMU-Africa’s Upanzi Network was featured in mosip16.9 for their Digital ID Hackathon. The hackathons are part of a larger initiative to increase the technical capacity of participants, promote innovation, and foster the next generation of thinkers in the field of digital identity.
CMU Engineering
CMU-Africa expands digital public infrastructure initiative
The Upanzi Network will fund research projects in Morocco, Botswana, and South Africa, with plans for additional partnerships.
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.