Short bio
Alessandro Cantelli-Forti is a researcher at the CNIT Radar and Surveillance Systems (RaSS) National Laboratory in Pisa, where he heads explorative research in cybersecurity, and an adjunct professor at the University of Parma. His research addresses the forensic reconstruction of events in cyber-physical systems such as ships, vehicles, industrial plants and autonomous systems, particularly when the digital record may have been degraded or manipulated. Since 2012 he has served as a digital evidence expert for Italian courts and public prosecutors in major investigations, including the Costa Concordia shipwreck, the Norman Atlantic ferry fire and the Mottarone cableway disaster. He has directed two NATO Science for Peace and Security projects on counter-drone detection and serves as an expert for the European Defence Agency. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and a programme committee member of USENIX Security 2027. He holds a PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa.
