Bio

Dr. Zago holds a PhD from the University of Murcia, Spain. He is currently based in Verona, Italy, working as a cybersecurity engineer (official registration code VR-A-4783). Since 2022 he has been elected as Council Member of the Ordine degli Ingegneri di Verona with a special delegation for Digital Transition and Cybersecurity. His research has focused on Artificial Intelligence for cybersecurity, including machine learning solutions for network intrusion detection systems, big data and sentiment analysis to identify social bots on social media platforms; and, anomaly detection in users' behavioural patterns for authentication and authorization purposes. He also has 5+ years of experience as a private technical consultant working as an IT consultant, data scientist, cybersecurity engineer, and architect. Currently, He's working as Solutions Architect at Athesys s.r.l. researching applications of cutting-edge technologies for identity management.