Vita Santa BARLETTA
Assistant professor
Department of Informatics – University of Bari
Coordinator of Quantum Software Engineering and CrASte Laboratory
Research Area: Process and Project Management; Security Engineering; Quantum Software Engineering

Email: vita.barletta@uniba.it
Floor: 4th, lab SERLAB

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General Data

  • Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro
  • Coordinator of CrASte (Cyber Academy for Security and Intelligence) Laboratory 
  • PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bari Aldo Moro
    Research Project: Secure Project Management
  • Graduated in Computer Science at the University of Bari Aldo Moro

Research Project 

  • “CYBER-PREDICT – Cyber vulnerability ranking prediction by prescription” finanziamento nell’ambito dell’avviso pubblico “Reti – Sostegno alla ricerca collaborativa” della Regione Puglia (aperto a istituzioni e aziende anche esterne alla regione Puglia), Codice Progetto DUQVKW0.
  • “SSA – Secure Safe Apulia” (Codice Progetto 6ESURE5) finanziato a valere sul “PO FESR 2014/2020 “Aiuti ai Programmi di Investimento promossi da Grandi Imprese da concedere attraverso Contratti di programma Regionali (Titolo VI del Reg. generale dei regimi di aiuto in esenzione – Reg. Regionale 26 giugno 2008, n. 9)
  • “TITANUX – creaTing hIgh qualiTy ANd sEcure systems that emphasise UX”, finanziato dalla Regione Puglia, Codice Progetto Z85MUK8
  • “C-BAS – Customer Behaviour Analysis System” (Codice progetto LA3Z825), finanziato a valere sul “PO FESR 2014/2020 “Aiuti ai Programmi di Investimento promossi da Grandi Imprese da concedere attraverso Contratti di programma Regionali (Titolo VI del Reg. generale dei regimi di aiuto in esenzione – Reg. Regionale 26 giugno 2008, n. 9).

Professional Service 

Organizing Committee Member

  • 2026. Organizer e Co-Chair “1st International Workshop on Symbiotic AI for Cyber Social Security: Human-AI Collaboration for Social Resilience and Trustworthy Digital Ecosystems” (SAI4CSS’26), co-located with ITASEC 2026. February 9, 2026 Cagliari, Italy
  • 2025. Organizer e Co-Chair  “3rd International Workshop on Cyber Security Education for Industry and Academia” (CSE4IA 2025), nel contesto della “10th International Symposium on End-User Development” (IS-EUD 2025), 16-18 June 2025, Munich (Germany).
    Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cse4ia-2025/committees
    Proceedings: https://ceur-ws.org/V ol-3978
  • 2024. Organizer e Co-Chair della seconda edizione del Workshop “2nd International Workshop on CyberSecurity Education for Industry and Academia” (CSE4IA 2024) co-located with the 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (A VI 2024). 4th June 2024, Arenzano (Genoa), Italy.
    Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cse4ia-2024
    Extended Abstract: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3656650.3660536
    Proceedings: https://ceur-ws.org/V ol-3700/
  • 2023. Organizer e Co-Chair della seconda edizione del workshop “2nd International Workshop on Quantum Programming for Software Engineering” (QP4SE 2023), tenutosi nel contesto della “ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering” (ESEC/FSE 2023)
    Website: https://sites.google.com/view/qp4se/commitee)
    Proceedings: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3617570
  • 2023. “2nd International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering” (CISE 2023), tenutosi nel contesto della “ International Conference on Focused Software Process Improvement” (PROFES 2023)
    Website: https://sites.google.com/view/profes-cise2023/committees
    Proceedings: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-49269-3
  • 2023. Organizer e Co-Chair della prima edizione del Workshop“1st International Workshop on Cyber Security Education for Industry and Academia” (CSE4IA 2023), tenutosi nel contesto della “9th International Symposium on End-User Development” (IS-EUD 2023).
    Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cse4ia-23/committees
    Proceedings: https://ceur-ws.org/V ol-3408
  • 2022. Organizer e Co-Chair della prima edizione del workshop: “1st International Workshop on Quantum Programming for Software Engineering” (QP4SE 2022), tenutosi nel contesto della “ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering” (ESEC/FSE 2022)
    Website: https://sites.google.com/view/qp4se2022/commitee)
    Proceedings: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3549036
  • 2021. Virtualization Co-Chair in ESEM 2021 (Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement), 15th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. Mon 11 – Fri 15 October 2021
    Website: https://conf.researchr.org/committee/esem-2021/esem-2021-organizing-committee
  • 2020. Website Co-Chair in ESEM 2020 (Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement), 14th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. Mon 05 – Wed 07 October 2020
    Website: https://eseiw2020.di.uniba.it/esem_conf/conference-organization
  • 2021. Student Volunteer Co-Chair in INTERACT 2021 (International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction). 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bari, Italy, August 30 – September 3, 2021
    Website: https://www.interact2021.org/committees.php

Program Commitee

  • 2025. PATH, International Workshop on Promoting and Dealing with Advanced Technology in Healthcare co-located with the International Conference on Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2025)
  • 2025, 2023. CHItaly, Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
  • 2025, 2024, 2023. CSE4IA  – International Workshop on Cyber Security Education for Industry and Academia
  • 2024, 2022, 2021. MUM, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
  • 2023. CISE, 2nd Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering co-located with the International Conference on Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2023)
  • 2023.  Associate Chair – AC, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT) 2023, 28 August – 1 September 2023. York, UK and Online
  • 2022. ESEM, the 16th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
  • 2022. HCSE, the 9th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering
  • 2022, 2021, 2020. SEKE, International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering
  • 2019. PROFES, International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Guest Editor

  • Special Issue “Cyber Security Education for Industry and Academia” (CSE4IA) in “Multimedia Tools and Applications”. Guest Editors: Vita Santa Barletta, Danilo Caivano,Federica Caruso, Sara Peretti, Veronica Rossano.
    Link: https://link.springer.com/collections/jicaadgihb
  • Special Issue “Quantum Programming for Software Engineering” (QP4SE) in  “Science of Computer Programming”. Guest Editors: Fabiano Pecorelli, Vita Santa Barletta, Manuel A. Serrano.
    Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106R9PXFJ2R
  • Special Issue “AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of
    Participation in the Digital Age” in “Interaction Design & Architecture(s)”. Guest Editors: Alessandro Pagano, Anders Mørch, Vita Santa Barletta, Renate Andersen.
    Link: https://ixdea.org/table-of-contents-n-59 – Preface DOI:https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-059-001psi

Co-supervisor and Member of the evaluation committee in PhD Programme

  • Co-supervisor of Dr Mirko De Vincentiis, PhD Programme in Computer Science and Mathematics, XXXVII Cycle, University of Bari Aldo Moro.
    Vita Santa Barletta supervised the PhD Student’s research into the design and secure development of software components within the automotive sector, as well as the redefinition of the security lifecycle within this context.
  • Co-supervisor of Samuele del Vescovo, National PhD in Cybersecurity, XL Cycle, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca.
    Vita Santa Barletta is supervising the PhD Student’s research on defining a risk management model in a multi-domain cyber scenario.
  • Member of the evaluation committee for PhD Student Francesco Greco, PhD Programme in Computer Science and Mathematics, XXXVII Cycle, University of Bari Aldo Moro.
  • Member of the evaluation committee for PhD Student Ana Díaz Muñoz, PhD Programme in Advanced Information Technologies, University of Castilla La-Mancha, Institute of Technologies and Information Systems.

Best Paper AWARD:

  • V.S. Barletta, M. Calvano and A. Sciacovelli, “Cyber Social Security in Multi-Domain Operations”, 2024 IEEE International Workshop on Technologies for Defense and Security (TechDefense), Naples, Italy, 2024, pp. 41-46, doi: 10.1109/TechDefense63521.2024.10863352.
  • V.S. Barletta, D. Caivano, M. De Vincentiis, L. E. Sánchez, A. Santos-Olmo and M. A. Serrano, “MARISMA-CAR: A Preliminary Approach to Risk Assessment in Automotive Security,” 2024 IEEE 21st International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2024, pp. 574-579, doi: 10.1109/MASS62177.2024.00091.

Teaching (in Italian)

  • A.A. 2025/2026
    • “Quantum Programming for Software Engineering”,  Corso di Dottorato in Informatica e Matematica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Capstone Cyber-Security Project”, CdL in Computer Science curriculum Security Engineering, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Tecniche di Attacco e Difesa”, CdL in Sicurezza Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro”
    • “Ingegneria del Software” corso A-L CdL in Informatica e Tecnologie per la Produzione del Software, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Ingegneria del Software”  CdL in Informatica e Comunicazione Digitale (Marina Militare), Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
  • A.A. 2024/2025
    • “Quantum Programming for Software Engineering”,  Corso di Dottorato in Informatica e Matematica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Capstone Cyber-Security Project”, CdL in Computer Science curriculum Security Engineering, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Organizzazione Aziendale”, CdL in Sicurezza Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro”
    • “Ingegneria del Software”  CdL in Informatica e Comunicazione Digitale (Marina Militare), Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
  • A.A. 2023/2024
    • “Ingegneria del Software” corso A-L CdL in Informatica e Tecnologie per la Produzione del Software, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Ingegneria del Software” corso M-Z CdL in Informatica e Tecnologie per la Produzione del Software, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Cybe Security” CdL in Informatica e Tecnologie per la Produzione del Software, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Organizzazione Aziendale” CdL in Sicurezza Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
  • A.A. 2022/2023
    • “Ingegneria del Software” corso A-L CdL in Informatica e Tecnologie per la Produzione del Software, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Ingegneria del Software” corso M-Z CdL in Informatica e Tecnologie per la Produzione del Software, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Cyber Security” CdL in Informatica e Tecnologie per la Produzione del Software, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • “Organizzazione Aziendale” CdL in Sicurezza Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro”
  • A.A. 2021/2022
    • “Ingegneria del Software” corso M-Z CdL in Informatica e Tecnologie per la Produzione del Software, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
    • Professore a contratto dell’insegnamento “Organizzazione Aziendale” CdL in Sicurezza Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
  • A.A. 2020/2021
    • Professore a contratto dell’insegnamento “Organizzazione Aziendale in modalità e-learning” CdL in Sicurezza Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
  • A.A. 2019/2020
    • Professore a contratto dell’insegnamento “Organizzazione Aziendale in modalità e-learning” CdL in Sicurezza Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro