ToothPic
Giulio Coluccia started their work experience as a Visiting Researcher at Telecom Italia Lab in March 2003. Giulio then worked as a Visiting Researcher at ftw. in May and June 2007. Following that, they joined Politecnico di Torino as a PhD Student from January 2006 to December 2008, and later as a Research Assistant from January 2009 to May 2018. Currently, they are the CEO and founder of ToothPic, a cybersecurity startup specializing in user authentication.
Giulio Coluccia's education history is as follows:
- From 2020 to 2022, Giulio attended the MIB Trieste School of Management, where they completed an Executive MBA in Business Innovation.
- In 2016, Giulio participated in and won a program called the European Innovation Academy.
- From 2006 to 2009, Giulio studied at the Politecnico di Torino, where they earned a Dottore di ricerca degree in Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Elettronica e delle Comunicazioni (Electronic and Communication Engineering).
- From 2003 to 2005, Giulio pursued their Master of Science degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino.
- Between 2000 and 2003, Giulio obtained their Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino.
- From 1995 to 2000, Giulio attended Liceo Classico Sperimentale "Carlo Botta" di Ivrea, where they earned their High School Diploma.
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ToothPic
ToothPic provides solutions on technologies for the recognition of photographic devices.ToothPic’s mission is turning every smartphone into a secure and user-friendly key for user authentication. ToothPic is an official university spin-off of Politecnico di Torino, a major engineering school in Italy and Europe, and is incubated in the universityincubator 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 is protected by 4 patents, and won several prizes in competitions dedicated to startups and twice the Seal of Excellence issued by the European Commission. ToothPic’s target is the market of authentication systems. Its 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. The additional layer of security represented by this random unclonable feature can be obtained with no additional hardware and related costs. A Software Development Kit has been developed for Android and iOS. It can be integrated into existing third-party apps and authentication systems, allowing the device possession verification by (de)obfuscating asymmetric cryptographic keys. Users’ credentials are not stored in a centralized service provider server - representing a single point of failure exploitable by an attacker, but they are distributed on users’ devices. Hence, an adversary willing to violate those credentials should target each single user device, facilitating for service providers the migration from an on premises architecture to the cloud, because they don’t need to manage sensitive users credentials, but only their public key.