Breve biografia in italiano.
Alfredo De Santis received the Laurea degree in Computer Science (cum laude) from the University of Salerno in 1983. Since 1984, he has been with the Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni of University of Salerno, in 1984-1986 as an Instructor in charge of the Computer Laboratory, in 1986-1990 as Researcher Faculty, from November 1990 as Professor of Computer Science.
From November 1991 to October 1995 and from November 1998 to October 2001 he was the Director of the Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, University of Salerno.
He was the chairman of the graduate program in Computer Science at University of Salerno: ciclo XII (1996-2000), ciclo XIII (1997-2001), ciclo XIV (1998-2002), ciclo XV (1999-2002), and ciclo XVI (2000-2003).
From September 1987 to February 1990 he has been Visiting Scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. He spent August 1994 at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley CA, USA, as Visiting Scientist.
He was the Program Chairman of Eurocrypt '94, Perugia, Italy, May 9-12, 1994, of the Fifth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, Ravello, Italy, November 9-11, 1995, and of the Security in Communication Networks Conference, Amalfi, Italy, September 16-17, 1996. He was Co-director of the Advanced School on Computational Learning and Cryptography, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, September 13-24, 1993. He served on the scientific program committee of several international conferences.
He was the editor of the proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, World Scientific, 1996. He was the editor of the volume ``Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 94'', vol. 950 of ``Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', Springer-Verlag, 1995. He was co-editor of the volume Sequences II: Methods in Communication, Security and Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 1993.
He is a member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research), EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science), EMS (European Mathematical Society).
His research interests include Algorithms, Data Security, Cryptography, Communication Networks, Information Theory, and Data Compression.