Piero Romare

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Göteborg, Sweden

I’m Piero Romare, PhD Student in Usable Privacy and Security at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden), supervised by prof. Simone Fischer-Hübner in the WASP Graduate School.

I’ve a bachelor degree in Cognitive Psychology and Psychobiology and a master degree in Data Science from the University of Padua (Italy).
I’ve collaborated with the SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group led by prof. Mauro Conti and with the Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group at the University of Helsinki (Finland) led by prof. Giulio Jacucci.

Research Interests

  • Usable Privacy on IoT Automations
  • User-friendly Authentication Methods
  • Tangible Privacy
Teaching
  • Object Oriented Programming (Chalmers University of Technology, 2024-current)
  • Advanced Programming in Python (Chalmers University of Technology, 2022-current)
  • Tangible Interaction (Chalmers University of Technology, 2022-current)
  • Introduction to Programming in Python (Chalmers University of Technology, 2022-2023)
  • Cognitive, Behaviour and Social Data (University of Padua, 2021-2022)

Publications

  • Romare, Piero. "User-Driven Privacy Factors in Trigger-Action Apps: A Comparative Analysis with General IoT." Privacy and Identity Management - Sharing (in) a Digital World. 18th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2023. [paper]
  • Romare, Piero; Morel, Victor; Karegar, Farzaneh; Fischer-Hübner, Simone. "Tapping into Privacy: A Study of User Preferences and Concerns on Trigger-Action Platforms." 2023 20th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2023, pp. 1–12. [paper]
  • Carlucci, Mattia; Cecconello, Stefano; Conti, Mauro; Romare, Piero. "Eathentication: A Chewing-based Authentication Method." 2020 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), IEEE, Avignon, France, June 2020, pp. 1–9. [paper]
  • Conti, Mauro; Cecconello, Stefano; Romare, Piero; Carlucci, Mattia. "Method of Authenticating a User Through Analysis of Changes in the External Ear Canal." WIPO PCT/IB2021/050369, January 2021. [paper] [Video]

Posters and Presentations

Mitsubishi Information Technology Research Institute (Oct 2024) - Tokyo, Japan
Meiji University (Oct 2024) - Tokyo, Japan
CISPA Helmholtz Center (Jul 2024) - Saarbrücken, Germany
Lund University (May 2024) - Lund, Sweden
ETH Zürich (May 2024) - Zürich, Switzerland
WASP Winter Conference (Jan 2024) - Norrköping, Sweden
Chalmers University of Technology (Oct 2023) - Göteborg, Sweden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sept 2023) - Boston, USA
University of Pittsburgh (Sept 2023), Pittsburgh, USA
RISE Stockholm (Sept 2023) - Stockholm, Sweden
Denmark Technical University (Aug 2023) - Copenhagen, Denmark
Oslo University (Aug 2023) - Oslo, Norway
Uppsala University (May 2023) - Uppsala, Sweden
University of Padua (May 2023) - Padua, Italy
Karlstad University (Nov 2022) - Karlstad, Sweden