I have a PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa (2007), where I also received my Laurea degree in Computer Science Engineering. I have been working in Intecs from 2009 to 2013 as an R&D Manager and a Business Unit leader within the Telecommunications division, where I also acted as the official contact for ETSI and Net!Works. From 2014 to 2018 I have been a software engineer at MBI working on the design, development, validation, and operation of Software Defined Radio powered satellite communication platforms. I am now a Researcher in the Ubiquitous Internet group of IIT-CNR, where I am the head of the |Quantum⟩ lab since 2022. I have been the project manager of projects FP7 CROWD and ESA SAT4NET, and I have been involved in FP7 projects SANDRA and MOTO, FP6 project EuQoS, Celtic WINNER+, and other national R&D projects (QuaSAR, NADIR, IPERMOB, ARTES 4.0, QUANCOM). I am currently involved in H2020 project MARVEL and Horizon Europe projects EDGELESS (where I am the scientific manager), 6Green, HPCQS, and QUID; I participate to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) in three initiatives: ICSC national centre for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, National Quantum Science and Technology Institute (NQSTI), and SEcurity and RIghts in the CyberSpace (SERICS). In 2021 I have been the recipient, with Prof. Enzo Mingozzi, of a research grant awarded by the Networking Team at Facebook. In 2023 I won the Quantum Internet Application Challenge organized by the Quantum Internet Alliance with qperf. I am an editor of the IEEE Networking Letters and a member of the program committee of several international conferences (including IEEE PerCom, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE ISCC, IEEE WCNC, ACM CCgrid). I co-authored 80+ papers published in international journals, peer-reviewed conference proceedings and book chapters, and two international patents, with an h-index of 29 (Google scholar). Since 2024I am a member of the scientific and technical committee of GARR. I have an Erdös number of three and a Dijkstra number of four.
Awards
- Grand winner of the Quantum Internet Application Challenge 2023 with qperf
- Best IIT Grant 2021 Project Award, “SOE2: ServerlessOnEdge 2.0: reliable, faster & better FaaS at the edge”
- Facebook Research Award of “2021 Networking request for proposals in internet and web services” (announcement, press release in Italian) on the topic “Service continuity of serverless computing at the edge via QUIC migration” with Prof. Enzo Mingozzi
- “On Realizing Stateful FaaS in Serverless Edge Networks: State Propagation”, best paper nominee at SMARTCOMP’21, see summary, presentation on YouTube
- “Serverless Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges” won best paper award at AusPDC 2021 check it out!