Alessandra Sala: Biographical Details

Alessandra Sala is the technical manager of the `Data Analytics and Operations Research` group within the Enabling Computing Technologies (ETC) Domain, in Bell Labs Ireland.

In her prior appointment, she held a research associate position in the Department of Computer Science at University of California Santa Barbara. During this appointment, she was a key contributor of several funded proposals from National Science Foundation in USA and her research was awarded with the Cisco Research Award in 2011. She focused her research on modeling massive graphs with an emphasis on privacy threats for Online Social Network users. Before that, she worked for two years as post-doctoral fellow with the CurrentLab research group led by Prof. Ben Y. Zhao. Before UCSB, she completed her Ph.D in Computer Science at University of Salerno, Italy.

Her research interests include distributed algorithms and complexity analysis with an emphasis on graph algorithms and privacy issues in large-scale networks. Currently, she is investigating massive CDR data and large-scale graphs, like online social networks, to extract and combine valuable information from heterogeneous data sources. Ultimately, her research aims to design private solutions to access and analyze users sensitive information while preserving their privacy.

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