Paolo Gasti’s research focuses on behavioral biometrics, privacy-preserving biometric authentication and identification, secure multi-party protocols, and network security. His recent work includes protocols for secure genomic computation, document similarity, document caching. and distributed denial-of-service detection and prevention in future internet architectures. He served as a member of the NDN project, which is a National Science Foundation-sponsored initiative with the goal of designing a new network architecture that will eventually replace the current internet. His work has been featured in articles in the New Scientist and MIT Technological Review. Gasti worked as a research scholar at University of California, Irvine and received a Fulbright scholarship, under which he visited Johns Hopkins University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from University of Genoa, Italy, and his research pertained to the design of cryptographic schemes and network security.