Roberto Metere

Security Researcher at Newcastle University

Research Interests

The expertise I have been developing throughout my PhD is on formal verification of security properties of cryptographic constructions, algorithms and protocols. I focus on mechanising such constructions to guarantee security properties in the computational model and the symbolic model (popular rigorous mathematical models in security).
Recently, I have been applying formal models to cyber physical systems to assess their cybersecurity.
Overall, my work contributes to analyse security properties, improve reproducibility, simplify understandability, and formalise correctness of cryptographic constructions, algorithms and protocols.

News

  • Apr'22 Awarded a small research funding by NUCoRE Idea Factory (Cyber Security & Privacy) NUCoREs
  • Apr'22 Joining the project ABC (Active Building Centre Research Programme) abc-rp.com
  • Mar'22 Paper accepted at FormaliSE'22 preprint artefact
  • Apr'21 White paper on cybersecurity of the vehicle-to-grid ecosystem white paper
    • May'21 Exchange on the paper with exponents from Ofgem (Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, UK).
    • Jun'21 Consultancy/exchange on ISO15118-20/PLC with CHAdeMO group; exponents from Nissan, TEPCO, Subaru, Panasonic and Mitsubishi Electric were invited too.
    • Jan'22 Exchange on the paper with exponents from OZEV (Office for Zero Emissions Vehicles, UK).
  • Apr'21 Joined UK-SPS (Cyber Security & Privacy Seminar Series) organizing committee uk-sps.org
  • Nov'20 Paper published in Lecture Notes in Theoretical Computer Science preprint
  • May'20 Paper accepted at IEEE Security & Privacy preprint
  • Apr'20 Technical paper technical paper
  • Jun'19 Joining the project e4Future e4Future
  • May'19 Paper accepted at ACM Symposium on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) - poster/short paper preprint poster
  • Jan'19 Paper accepted at Science of Computer Programming preprint
  • Feb'18 Paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) preprint

My research output can be found at the pages google scholar and dblp computer science bibliography.

Current project

I am a (post-doc) researcher in the Active Building Centre Research Programme, where I study the cybersecurity, including but not limiting to privacy and authentication, of remote control and other communications in the context of smart buildings with the added capability of distributed energy generation and more! (active buildings)

Current and past research projects where I worked in, or where my research output directly contributed to.

The Active Building Centre Research Programme is researching and developing innovative tools and technologies that will ensure buildings of all scales contribute to a reduction in carbon emissions and a more sustainable built environment.
I research the cybersecurity aspects of communications in the context of active buildings, under the supervision of Charles Morisset at Newcastle University.

Aggregate commercial EV fleets for energy flexibility services through the V2G technology, leading industry partner is Nissan.
I research the cybersecurity aspects related to the communication protocols used by electric vehicles. My supervisors were Myriam Neaimeh, leading the Vehicle grid integration project at The Alan Turing Institute, London, and Charles Morisset at Newcastle University.

Make scientific advances by investigating both data structures and cryptography.
I collaborated in this project during my doctorate, under the supervision of Changyu Dong, principal investigator of the project.

The SEEV project aims to develop a new generation of e-voting called the self-enforcing e-voting system.
I collaborated as a researcher in this project with expertise on formal verification and mechanisation of cryptographic protocols.

Build fully verified and secure hypervisors for embedded systems.
I started my collaboration with researchers working in PROSPER during my ERASMUS+ experience at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden) in 2015.

UK Security & Privacy Seminar series.
A collaboration between 24 UK Universities with speakers across the globe, and with the aim of sharing world leading research into the current cyber security landscape.

Some of these projects are somehow part of my research, can be unfunded research projects, spare time projects, exercises, hobbies or curiosities.

Booking system of talks, seminars and group discussions we give at the Secure and Resilient Systems group at the School of Computing in Newcastle University.

We explore a novel data-centric approach, to design and model a cryptographic protocol once in a structured specification, and to enjoy its description into multiple target languages.

Worldwide cases and deaths officially related to Covid-19. Official (raw) data are collected from europa.eu.

Wanna play? get your entry-level SQL-injection skills right.

This is a simple, alternatively-rendered, and easy-to-clone version of the https://3d.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/, a 3D model of the Urban Sciences Building at Newcastle Unversity that publishes real-time sensors' data.
(my office is 6.012)

Generate a random password as you surf this page, just move your mouse, scroll or touch. The randomness will depend on your own movements, so that its entropy is augmented according to an additional source of uncertainty.
(all is done locally)

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