Cristian Lepore
Early-Stage Researcher - Computer Science
Contact: CristianLepore24@gmail.com
It is 2h30 pm on a sunny Friday afternoon. I am at a Starbucks in Santa Monica when a pop-up notification appears on my phone: 'Thank you for purchasing the ticket from Los Angeles to New York.' However, I didn't book any tickets.
Soon, I realized my email password had been changed. I panicked. Someone was controlling my digital life and pretending to be me.
I spend hours investigating solutions, and I get closer to online security. I decide to learn all about it to protect myself and others.
A few years later, I majored in Computer Science and joined the Toulouse Computer Science Research Center (IRIT). Today, they coordinate my activity to give people control of their digital lives.
I start working full-time for big tech companies, but I am annoyed. My activity does not impact people. Therefore, I start to work to indy projects for techies. I soon realize that I want to do research.
I practice English overseas and take courses in computing in Canada. I enjoy them. I secure an internship in the cryptography lab of the University of Milan, where I begin collaborating with professors on various research projects [6].
I work part-time on these projects but am eager to do research overseas. Eventually, I move to Scotland, where I live off my full-time research job. I explore topics of identity authentication at the Oxford Encode Club [5].
I continue working on identity in France, where I shift to work for the European Digital Identity framework. At first, it is challenging, but then I publish consistently and become one of the experts on our team. Now, experts dispatch my work [1] in newsletters and look forward to reading my articles [2, 3, 4].
Today, I travel to America whenever possible. I lived in Canada for a while and visited Asia. I attend conferences, which allow me to see beyond the city where I live. I look forward to seeing what experts think about digital identity.