Prof. Luigi Romano is currently an Associate Professor at the Department for Technologies of the University of Naples Parthenope. He got an MSc Degree in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, both from the University of Naples Federico II, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. In 1996-1997, he got an appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Reliable and High-Performance Computing (CRHC), of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). In 1997-1998, he got another appointment at CRHC, as a Visiting Researcher. He spent in total about eighteen months at CRHC, doing research with Prof. R.K. Iyer.

His research interests are dependability and security of computer systems and networks, embedded systems, and Middleware and Web technologies. Luigi Romano is a member of the International Program Committees for several international conferences in the field of dependable and secure computing, including: the International Symposium on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), the Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), and the International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE).