Dajana Cassioli
Dajana Cassioli (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor of Telecommunications Engineering with the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, where she served as the Elected Head for the Study Program in “Telecommunications Engineering: Advanced Technologies and Services” from 2021 to 2024. She co-authored more than 100 articles published in the most renowned international journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. She was a Summer Manager with the Wireless Systems Research Department, AT&T Laboratories-Research, NJ, USA, in 2000. She was a Short-Term Visiting Scholar with the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, hosted by Prof. Andy Molisch, in 2022. Her main research interests are in wireless communications, 5G/B5G networks and cybersecurity.
Dr. Cassioli is the Chair of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on “Propagation Channels for Next Generation Wireless Systems and Emerging Deployment Scenarios” and Chair of the SiG on Distributed and Massive MIMO of the IEEE P1944 Standard for Channel Models of Wireless Systems, both within the IEEE Communications Society. She also serves as the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Activity Coordinator of the IEEE Italy Section. She is the Past Chair of the IEEE WIE AG Italy Section from 2016 to 2022 and the IEEE VT06/COM19 Italy Chapter from 2011 to 2017. She served as the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc RCC SiG on Propagation Channels for 5G&B from 2021 to 2025. Since 2015, she is the Coordinator of the University of L’Aquila Node of the CINI National Laboratory of Cybersecurity, where she led the CyberEquality WG from 2020 to 2021. She has been awarded the ERC StG VISION (Video-oriented UWB-based Intelligent Ubiquitous Sensing) in 2010 and the ERC PoC Grant iCARE (MobIle health-Care system for monitoring toxicity and symptoms in Cancer patients Receiving Disease-Oriented Therapy) in 2016. She was the CEO in 2014–2018, and 2019 of the spin-off of the University of L’Aquila “Smartly: Natives of Smart Living srl,” which designs and markets advanced ICT solutions to improve the quality of life. She served as the Co-Chair for Globecom 2025 WC, ICC 2024 MWN, ICC 2023 CISS, PIMRC2018 Industry, RTSI WIE Chair in 2018, 2019, and 2020, MELECON2020 and MetroInd4.0, and the TPC member of several International Conferences, including ICC, PIMRC, VTC, and GLOBECOM. She participated in the definition of the standard channel model for the IEEE 802.15.4 standard in 2005. She is an Associate Editor of IET Electronic Letters, and an Executive Editor of WILEY INTERNET TECHNOLOGY LETTERS and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technology and served as an Associate Editor for IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS from 2018 to 2022.
Session
Cryptography is the invisible shield of the digital world, but its roots stretch back through millennia of human history. This workshop, indeed, offers a hands-on retrospective of this fascinating field. In four hours, we will journey from the simple yet effective Caesar cipher to the mind-bending principles of quantum cryptography. Participants will not only learn the historical and theoretical underpinnings of these cryptographic systems but will actively engage with them through a series of hands-on challenges. We will explore the cat-and-mouse game of code-makers and code-breakers, understanding how vulnerabilities in one generation of cryptography spurred the innovations of the next. The workshop is designed to be accessible to those with a foundational understanding of security concepts, providing a tangible and discursive look at how we've protected our secrets through the ages and what the future holds for this critical domain. Attendees will leave with a richer appreciation for the elegant mathematics and clever designs that secure our digital lives.