Angel Jordan Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-director, CyLab-Africa
Co-director, the Upanzi Network
Courtesy Appointment, Computer Science Department
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.
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
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
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
Researchers with the Upanzi Network have developed recommendations for the Digital Public Goods Alliance to increase transparency about users’ data privacy.
mosip16.9
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
The Upanzi Network will fund research projects in Morocco, Botswana, and South Africa, with plans for additional partnerships.
Atlantic Council
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
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
Giulia Fanti has been named the new Angel Jordan Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
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
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 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
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
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.
