Vincenzo Imperati#

PhD in Computer Science (November 2023 - present)#

Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• Research topics: Distributed Systems, Security and Privacy, Blockchain, Social Networks, OSINT
• Advisor: Alessandro Mei

Master of Science in Computer Science (September 2021 - October 2023)#

Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• Average exam grade: 29.08/30
• Final grade: 110/110 with honours
• Thesis: The Conspiracy Money Machine: Uncovering Telegram’s Conspiracy Channels and their Profit Model
• Supervisor: Alessandro Mei

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (September 2018 - July 2021)#

Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• Average exam grade: 28.10/30
• Final grade: 110/110 with honours
• Thesis: Evaluation of a Home Energy Management System based on Reinforcement Learning
• Supervisor: Igor Melatti

Student Assistant (February 2023 - July 2023)#

Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• Tutoring fellowship for Introduction to Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Algorithm Design

SystemsLab Collaborator (October 2022 - October 2023)#

Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• Research collaboration with the SystemsLab research group

Student Assistant (June 2022 - January 2023)#

Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• Tutoring fellowship for Introduction to Computer Programming

Student Assistant (April 2021 - July 2021)#

Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• Tutoring fellowship for Introduction to Computer Programming, Object-Oriented Programming

USENIX Security (August 2025, Seattle, Washington, USA)#

• Paper: The Conspiracy Money Machine: Uncovering Telegram’s Conspiracy Channels and their Profit Model

Data Analyst and Italian Community Ambassador (December 2022 - November 2023)#

Seed Captain (Remote)

• Project data analyst
• Discord and Telegram community moderator for Seed Captain (built on MultiversX, formerly Elrond Network)

Data Analyst and Italian Community Ambassador (September 2022 - August 2024)#

Cantina Royale (Remote)

• Project data analyst
• Discord and Telegram community moderator for Cantina Royale (built on MultiversX)

Master of Science Honours Program in Computer Science (October 2023)#

Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• Topic: Process mining and distributed ledger analytics
• Supervisor: Claudio Di Ciccio

BUCA’23 Summer School (September 2023)#

BICI Events x Google, Varenna, Italy

• Challenges in building Billion Users Cloud Applications

Bachelor of Science Honours Program in Computer Science (July 2021)#

Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• Topic: Algorithms and tools for Smart Cities and Smart Grids
• Supervisor: Igor Melatti

HackParty 2025 (March 2025, Pi Campus, Rome, Italy)#

• Award: 🥇 1st prize

Italian XRPL Hackathon 2024 (November 2024, De Componendis Cifris x XRPL Commons, Rome, Italy)#

• Project: Enhancing election integrity - An Ethereum-based election system utilizing homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs
• Award: 🥇 1st prize (De Componendis Cifris)

ETHRome 2024 (October 2024, Urbe ETH, Rome, Italy)#

• Project: Safeblow - Empowering whistleblowers to securely and privately submit their reports
• Awards:
  • 🥇 1st prize (Web3Privacy Now)
  • 🥇 1st prize (LaserRomae s.r.l.)

Hackathon24 BEST Roma (April 2024, BEST Roma, Rome, Italy)#

• Award: 🥉 3rd prize

Web3 ATL Hackathon (November 2023, 404 DAO, Remote)#

• Award: 🥉 3rd prize (Revest Finance)

Randstad AI Hackathon 2023 (March 2023, VGen x Randstad, Rome, Italy)#

• Award: 🥉 3rd prize