Manuela Flores
Education and job
Manuela Flores received the Laurea degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 1999 with a research thesis in Cryptography, under the supervision of Prof. Alfredo De Santis.
From March 1999 to August 2002 she was analyst programmer and project leader in the IT consulting company Exedra Consulting S.p.A.
From September 2002 to June 2021 she was professor of Computer Science and Mathematics in Public High School.
From April 2010 to August 2011 she was IT ministerial officer for software development, network and statistical analysis at the Ministry of Education, University and Research.
From November 2015 to November 2018 she was a PhD student in Computer Science, XXXI PhD Series, at the Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno.
On 25 February 2019 she received the PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno with a thesis in Cryptography, under the supervision of Prof. Barbara Masucci.
From 01 July 2021 to 30 June 2022 she held a Research Fellowship at the Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, with Prof. Marcella Anselmo as scientific responsible.
On 01 July 2022 she started a new Research Fellowship at the Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, still with Prof. Marcella Anselmo as scientific responsible.
Research
Her research interests are about Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithms and Cryptography.
On 12 July 2022 she talked about her publication Fun Slot Machines and Transformations of Words avoiding Factors, within an Informal Presentation Session, at the 18th International Conference on Computability in Europe (CiE 2022), July 11 - 15, 2022, Swansea University, United Kingdom.
On 01 June 2022 she talked about her publication Fun Slot Machines and Transformations of Words avoiding Factors, within a Contributed Session, at the 11th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms 2022, May 30 - June 03, 2022, Island of Favignana, Italy.
On 14 September 2021 she talked about her publication Quaternary n-Cubes and Isometric Words, within a Contributed Session, at the 13th International Conference on Words (Words 2021), Virtual Event, September 13 - 17, 2021, University of Rouen Normandy, France.
On 08 July 2021 she talked about her preprint publication Quaternary n-Cubes and Isometric Words, within an Informal Presentation Session, at the 17th International Conference on Computability in Europe (CiE 2021), Virtual Event, July 5 - 9, 2021, Ghent University, Belgium.
On June 2020 he was in the Organizing Committee of 16th International Conference on Computability in Europe (CiE 2020), Virtual Event, June 29 - July 2, 2020, University of Salerno - Fisciano campus, Italy.
On 30 October 2018 she talked about her preprint publication Provably-Secure One-Message Unilateral Entity Authentication Schemes, within a PhD Forum, at the 10th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS 2018), October 29 - 31, 2018, Amalfy, Italy.
On 31 August 2017 she talked about her ACM publication One-Message Unilateral Entity Authentication Schemes, within a Contributed Session, at the 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017), August 29 - September 1, 2017, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Publications
1. M. Anselmo, M. Flores and M. Madonia,
On k-ary n-cubes and isometric words,
Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 938, pp. 50-64, Elsevier, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.tcs.2022.10.007.
2. M. Anselmo, M. Flores and M. Madonia,
Fun Slot Machines and Transformations of Words Avoiding Factors,
in Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms 2022,
Island of Favignana, Sicily, Italy, May 30 - June 03, 2022, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 226, FUN 2022, doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2022.4.
3. M. Anselmo, M. Flores and M. Madonia,
Quaternary n-cubes and Isometric Words,
in Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Words 2021,
Virtual Event, Rouen, France, September 13 - 17, 2021, Combinatoric on Words, LNCS vol. 12847, pp. 27-39, Springer, 2021, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-85088-3_3.
4. A. De Santis, M. Flores and B. Masucci,
One-Message Unilateral Entity Authentication Schemes,
in Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security - ACM ARES 2017,
Reggio Calabria, Italy, August 29 - September 1, 2017, pp. 25:1-25:6, ACM, 2017, doi: 10.1145/3098954.3098982.
Teaching
> Help Teaching of "Computer Architecture", 1st year of Bachelor degree in Computer Science at University of Salerno, AA.AA. 2022/23 - 2021/22 - 2020/21 - 2019/20 - 2018/19 - 2017/18;
> Help Teaching of "Algorithm Design", 2dn year of Bachelor degree in Computer Science at University of Salerno, AA.AA. 2021/22 - 2020/21 - 2019/20 - 2018/19;
> Help Teaching of "Elements of Computation Theory", 3rd year of Bachelor degree in Computer Science at University of Salerno, AA.AA 2021/22.
+ Subject expert and exam committee member of "Computer Architecture", 1st year of Bachelor degree in Computer Science at University of Salerno,
AA.AA. 2022/23 - 2021/22 - 2020/21 - 2019/20 - 2018/19 - 2017/18;
+ Subject expert and exam committee member of "Algorithm Design", 2nd year of Bachelor degree in Computer Science at University of Salerno,
AA.AA. 2022/23 - 2021/22 - 2020/21 - 2019/20 - 2018/19;
+ Subject expert and exam committee member of "Elements of Computation Theory", 3rd year of Bachelor degree in Computer Science at University of Salerno,
AA.AA. 2022/23 - 2021/22;
+ Subject expert and exam committee member of "Safe Programming", 2nd year of Master of Science degree in Computer Science at University of Salerno,
AA.AA. 2022/23 - 2021/22 - 2020/21 - 2019/20 - 2018/19 - 2017/18.