Ambra Demontis - Assistant Professor (RTDa)
Ambra Demontis is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the University of Cagliari, Italy.
She received her M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in Computer Science and her Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Cagliari, Italy, in 2014 and 2018.
Her research focuses on the security of machine learning algorithms. These algorithms have reported outstanding performances; however, they can be easily fooled by attackers. The research of Dr. Ambra Demontis has contributed to studying their vulnerabilities to different types of attacks and making them more robust.
She serves on the program committee of different conferences and journals. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics and the Elsevier Pattern Recognition Journal. She has been co-chair of the AISec workshops (2019-2022), area chair, and track chair of ICPR, and she is the chair of the IAPR Technical Committee on Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques. She is a member of IEEE, ACM, and IAPR.
In 2023, she has received the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor (ING-INF/05) and was awarded "Women of Science Youngs" by the association ScienzaSocietàScienza and the municipality of Cagliari for her research work and dissemination activities.
