David Palma received an M.Sc. degree (magna cum laude) in Electronic Engineering, and Ph.D. and Doctor Europaeus degrees (Hons.) in Industrial and Information Engineering from the University of Udine, Italy, in 2017 and 2021, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Information Security at the University of Udine and a member of the Distributed and Dynamical Systems Research Group, where he previously worked as a Research Associate. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Doctoral Researcher at Imperial College London, specializing in defense and security within the Control and Power Research Group. In 2023, he was awarded the University of Udine's Ph.D. Award and was nominated for the EUROSIM Ph.D. Award for his doctoral research. His primary research interests include multidimensional signal processing, pattern recognition, and dynamical systems theory, from both theoretical and practical perspectives, with applications ranging from biometrics, surveillance, and cryptography to networking, distributed systems, cyber-physical security, and interdisciplinary problems at the interface of engineering and the life sciences.
