Toothpic: your smartphone is your secure key

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THURSDAY 11th JUNE, 6:00 PM

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ToothPic is an official university spin-off of Politecnico di Torino, a major engineering school in Italy and Europe, and is incubated in the university incubator I3P, recently recognized by UBI Global as the best public incubator worldwide. ToothPic was founded by a team of 4 researchers and professors from Politecnico di Torino, and in 2018 received a seed from VV3TT, an Italian Venture Capital fund dedicated to Technology Transfer from public research.

ToothPic technology recognizes the unique pattern of invisible imperfections that characterize smartphone cameras to protect cryptographic keys stored on devices, that are commonly used for user authentication, digital signature, blockchain related applications. This additional layer of security can be obtained with no additional hardware.

ToothPic technology is protected by 4 patents, and won several prizes in competitions dedicated to startups (StartCup and PNI in Italy), and twice the Seal of Excellence issued by the European Commission.

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The Speakers

Enrico Magli

Enrico Magli is a Full Professor at the Electronics and Telecommunications Department of Politecnico di Torino, and the President of ToothPic. He leads the IPL (Image Processing and Learning) group, performing research in the fields of machine learning, forensics and security, image and video processing and compression. He has been the Principal Investigator of the “CRISP” ERC Starting Grant project and the “ToothPic” ERC Proof-of-Concept project, with combined funding exceeding 1.5 M Euros; the ERC assigns grants to top-level scientists for frontier research projects. During his career, he has published more than 230 articles on international high-reputation journals, international conference papers, books or chapters of books, receiving more than 5000 citations. He is an IEEE Fellow and has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He has received several journal and conference best paper awards.

Giulio Coluccia

Giulio Coluccia is the CEO and co-founder of ToothPic. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2009. After the PhD, he worked as a PostDoc researcher within the Image Processing and Learning group, being involved in several flagship research projects funded by the European Commission, like the ERC StG “CRISP” and the PoC “ToothPic”. During the latter, he worked on the Technology Transfer process that led to the foundation of the startup ToothPic, where now he works full-time as CEO since 2018.

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Toothpic: your smartphone is your secure key

Thursday 11 June, 6:00 pm