Born in Genova ( ITALY ) on April the 19th 1966.
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Member of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society
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Education
November 1995 , PhD in Computer Engineering from the Universita' di Genova. Thesis title: "Parallel Heterogeneous Computing Architectures for Signal and Image Processing and Coding" (In Italian).
June 1991 , Laurea degree in Computer Engineering from the Universita' di Genova. Thesis title: "Programming Languages and Performance Evaluation Tools for Massively Parallel Systems" (In Italian).
Positions
2020 to present Scientific Coordinator of the Joint CIPI-Gruppo Sigla s.r.l. Cybersecurity Laboratory named “CyberTooth” (https://cybertooth.grupposigla.it/index.html)
2019 to present Member of CIPI ( Centro per l'Ingegneria delle Piattaforme Informatiche, UniGE-UniPD-UniSS, Italy )
2007 to present Member of IEEE Computer Society
May 2005 to present Associate Professor at the Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione of the Universita' degli Studi di Padova (Padua, Italy ).
May 2005 to present Adjunct Professor at the Dip. di Informatica Bioingegneria Robotica ed Ingegneria dei Sistemi of the Universita' degli Studi di Genova (Genoa, Italy)
2013-2020 Member of the Scientific Board of Circle Garage s.r.l.
June 2006 to January 2019 Member of the Directive Committee of CIPI ( Centro per l'Ingegneria delle Piattaforme Informatiche, UniGE-UniPD, Italy )
Summer 2001 Visiting Research Associate at Emory University , Atlanta ( USA ).
March 2000 to April 2005 Assistant Professor at the Universita' degli Studi di Genova , (Genoa, Italy ).
1998 to February 2000 Research Associate at Emory University , Atlanta ( USA ).
1996-1997 Post Doctoral Fellow at the Universita' degli Studi di Genova , (Genoa, Italy ).
1992-1995 Phd student at the Universita' di Genova, Genoa ( Italy ).
Research Projects
2021 to present PI/Scientific Coordinator for the European NGI Open Call funded Project "Truth Seekers Chain (TSC)" (https://www.trublo.eu/truth-seekers-chain/)
2012 to present PI for the University of Padova Project "Prosthetic Energy-aware Prospective Memory (PEP-M) and (PEP-M2)"
2012 to present PI for the Universita' di Padova Project "Context and Energy awareness in secure, mobile systems"
2016-2018 PI for the University of Padova Project "FOSTERING INDEPENDENT LIVING IN THE AGING POPULATION THROUGH PROACTIVE PAGING AND COGNITIVE SUPPORT (FILANTROPOS)"
2005-2011 Co-PI for the Universita' di Padova Project "Parallel Architectures and Algorithms"
2008 PI for the Regione Sardegna funded project "Building a Service Based Grid Community for Small Medium Enterprises"
2007 PI for the Regione Liguria funded project "GRID4SME"
2005-2006 Research Associate in the Parco Scientifico Tecnologico della Liguria project "Session Border Controller in IP Networks "
2005-2006 Research Associate in the MIUR funded project "Intelligent Systems for Dynamic Creation of Communities of Service Providers in Multimodal Transportation"
2003-2004 Co-PI for the Universita' di Genova Project "Advanced Web Services for Computationally Intensive Application"
2002-2003 Co-PI for the joint CETENA-Universita' di Genova Project "GRID-Computing for Ship Vulnerability Evaluation"
2001-2002 Research Associate in the MURST-MIUR funded project "National Network for Customs Operators"
2001-2002 Research Associate in the MURST-MIUR funded project "Cargo Community System"
2001 Co-PI for the Universita' di Genova Project "Security Enhanced Metacomputers".
2000 Co-PI for the Universita' di Genova Project "Palm Access to Metacomputing Systems".
1998 to February 2000 Co-PI in the US-DoE HARNESS project.
1997 Research assistant in the MURST funded project "Tools and methodologies for the design of high performance multimedia systems".
1995 Research assistant in the CNR funded project "Parallel information systems".
1994-1995 Research assistant in the MURST funded project "Distributed systems for multimedia applications".
1994-1996 Research assistant in the MURST funded project "Tools and methodologies for the design of parallel distributed systems".
1994-1996 Research assistant in the EC funded ESPRIT project named SM-IMP for the study of mixed mode SIMD-MIMD Image Processing architectures.
1993-1994 Research assistant in the MURST funded project "Conventional and unconventional architectures for distributed systems".
1993 Research assistant in the MURST funded project "Reconfigurable massively parallel architectures".
1993 Research assistant in the CNR funded project "Hardware and software architectures for neural networks".
Didactic Activities
2020 to present Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the Graduate course "Computers and Networks Security" (Master in Computer Engineering)
2020 to present Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the Graduate course "Cybersecurity and Cryptography: principles and practices" (Master in Cybersecurity)
2019 to present Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the Undergraduate course "Ingegneria del Software 1" (Bachelor in Computer Engineering)
2013 to present Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the Graduate course "Sistemi di Elaborazione dell'Informazione " (Master in Applied Cognitive Psychology)
2020-2021 Adjunct Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the Graduate Course “Concurrent and Distributed Programming” (Master in Computer Engineering)
2019-2020 Adjunct Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the Graduate Course “Concurrent and Distributed Programming” (Master in Computer Engineering)
2017-2019 Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the Graduate course "Sistemi Distribuiti" (Master in Computer Engineering)
2017-2018 Adjunct Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the Graduate Course “Concurrent and Distributed Programming” (Master in Computer Engineering)
2014 to 2018 Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the Undergraduate course "Sistemi di Elaborazione 1 " (Bachelor in Statistics)
2015-2016 Adjunct Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the Graduate Course “Concurrent and Distributed Programming” (Master in Computer Engineering)
2015 Invited Speaker at the University College London
2015 Invited Speaker at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
2014-2015 Adjunct Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the Graduate Course “Concurrent and Distributed Programming” (Master in Computer Engineering)
2009-2015 Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the Undergraduate course "Sistemi di Elaborazione 2" (Bachelor in Statistics)
2010-2014 Adjunct Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the Graduate Course "Software Architectures" (Master in Computer Engineering)
2013 Invited Speaker at the university of Regina (CN)
2013 Invited Speaker at the Annual General Meeting of the IEEE Chapter of Saskatchewan (CN)
2013 Invited Speaker at the Free university of Bozen
2009-2014 Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the Graduate course "Ingegneria del Software" (Master in Statistics)
2009 Contract Professor for Gruppo SIGLA for a Software Engineering course.
2008 Contract Professor for the course "Distributed Programming" in the ISICT- Universita' di Genova Master Course "Advanced Technologies for Integrated Intelligent Systems"
2005-2009 Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the graduate course "Ingegneria del Software 1" (Master in Statistics)
2005-2009 Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the graduate course "Ingegneria del Software 2" (Master in Statistics)
2003 to 2009 Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the graduate course "Architetture Software 1" (Master in Computer Engineering)
2005-2007 Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the Ph.D. course "Java Middleware for Grid Computing"
2004-2005 Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the graduate course "Architetture Software 2 " (Master in Computer Engineering)
2003-2004 Contract Professor at the Universita' di Padova for the graduate course "Ingegneria del Software 2" (Master in Statistics)
2002-2005 Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the undergraduate course "Fondamenti di Informatica A" (Bachelor in Italian Literature)
2001-2005 Professor at the Universita' di Genova for the undergraduate course "Strutture Software 1" (Bachelor in Electronic Engineering)
2004 Contract Professor for Marconi s.p.a. for a CORBA distributed object technology course.
2003 Invited Speaker at the Italian Center for Naval Technologies (CETENA)
2002 Invited Speaker at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (PL)
2002 Invited Speaker at the Italian Center for Naval Technologies (CETENA)
2001 Contract Professor for Marconi s.p.a. for Java programming language courses.
2001 Contract Professor for SALT s.p.a. for Computer Network Architecture, Design and Management courses.
2000 Contract Professor for Marconi s.p.a. for CORBA distributed object technology courses.
2000 Contract Professor for Marconi s.p.a. for Java programming language courses.
2000 Invited speaker at the CNR-CNUCE Laboratories in Pisa .
1999 Invited speaker at the Georgia Tech School of Computer Engineering.
1999 Invited speaker at the Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences, University of Genova .
1998 Invited speaker at the Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences, University of Genova .
1994-1997 Assistant at the Universita' di Genova for an undergraduate Unix OS course.
1993-1997 Assistant for an undergraduate Operating Systems and Computing Architecture course for the Universita' di Genova.
1997 Invited speaker at the Dept. of Math of the Universita' di Padova.
1997 Contract Professor at the Universita' di Padova for an undergraduate Operating Systems and Networks course.
1997 Invited speaker at the Dept. of Statistics of the Universita' di Padova.
1997 Invited speaker at the Technical Universities of Zilina and Kosice (SK).
1996 Invited speaker at the Technical Universities of Zilina and Kosice (SK).
1995 Contract Professor at the Summer Graduate School at the Universita' di Trento for a Multimedia Distributed Systems course.
1994 Assistant at the Universita' di Genova for an undergraduate Computer Networks course.
1994 Contract Professor at the Universita' di Trento for an undergraduate Telecommunication Systems course.
1992 Assistant at the Universita' di Genova for an undergraduate Programming Languages course.
1991 Assistant at the Universita' di Genova for an undergraduate Computer Networks course.
Professional Activities
1994 to present Reviewer for international Journals, e.g. Proceedings of IEEE (IEEE Press.), IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE Press), IEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE Press), Computers and Security (Elsevier), Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), Lecture Notes on Computer Science (Springer), Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering (North Holland), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Academic Press), Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing (Inderscience), Journal of High Speed Networks (IOS Press).
1994 to present Reviewer for international Conferences and Workshops, e.g. MobiSEC, HPDC, IMIS, CISIS, INCOS, AINA, EuroPar, IPDPS, ICDCS, HPCN, PDPTA, IPCCC, IC, IIHCI, JavaGrande.
2014 to present Eureka-Eurostar expert
2014-2018 Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (Inderscience) http://www. inderscience .com/jhome.php?jcode= ijguc , ISSN online: 1741-8488, ISSN print: 1741-847X
2021 General Co-chair of the Edge-IoT Conference 2021, Second EAI International Conference on Intelligent Edge Processing in the IoT Era. Online, Novemberber 24-26, 2021.
2020 Proposal Evaluator for the Regione Umbria
2020 Proposal Evaluator for the Regione Campania.
2020 General Co-chair of the Edge-IoT Conference 2020, part of the EAI International Conference on Intelligent Edge Processing in the IoT Era. Viana do Castelo (PT), December 2-4, 2020.
2019-2020 Co-Chair of the Fifth International Workshop on Energy Aware Systems, Communications and Security, fully online because of the COVID19 pandemia.
2019 Member of the program committee of the 22-nd International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS 2019). Oita University (JP), September 5-7, 2019.
2019 Member of the program committee of the 13th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2019), Sidney (AU), July 3-5, 2019.
2013-2019 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of High Speed Networks (IOS Press) http://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-high-speed-networks
2018 Proposal Evaluator for the Italian Government (MIUR).
2018 Member of the program committee of the 21-st International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS 2018). Comenius University (SK), September 5-7, 2018.
2018 Member of the program committee of the 12th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2018), Matsue (JP), July 4-6, 2018.
2017-2018 Co-Chair of the Fourth International Workshop on Energy Aware Systems, Communications and Security, Krakow (PL), May 18, 2018. In conjunction with the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2018) .
2017 Member of the program committee of the 11th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2017), Sidney (AU), July 3-5, 2017.
2017 Co-chair of the SPCLOUD Workshop, part of the 2017 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017). Genoa (IT), July 17-21, 2017.
2017 Co-chair of the SHPCS Workshop, part of the 2017 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017). Genoa (IT), July 17-21, 2017.
2017 Member of the program committee of the 20-th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS 2017). Ryerson University (CN), August 24-26, 2017.
2017 Co-chair of the Symposia, Tracks, Workshops & Special Sessions program committee of the 2017 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017). Genoa (IT), July 17-21, 2017.
2016 Co-chair of the SPCLOUD Workshop, part of the 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016). Innsbruck (AT), July 18-22, 2016.
2016 Co-chair of the SHPCS Workshop, part of the 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016). Innsbruck (AT), July 18-22, 2016.
2016 Member of the program committee of the 19-th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS 2016). Ostrava (CZ), September 7-9, 2016.
2015 Co-chair of the SPCLOUD Workshop, part of the 2015 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2015). Amsterdam (NL), July 20-24, 2015.
2015 Co-chair of the SHPCS Workshop, part of the 2015 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2015). Amsterdam (NL), July 20-24, 2015.
2015 Member of the program committee of the 18-th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS 2015). Taipei (TW), September 2-4, 2015.
2015 Co-chair of the Security, Organization, Management and Atonomic Computing for Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems track in the 7-th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2015). Taipei (TW), September 2-4, 2015.
2015 Member of the Program Committee of the 6 th Mobiworld Workshop. In conjunction with the IEEE Infocom 2015 Conference. Hong-Kong (HK), 26 April-1 May, 2015.
2015 Member of the Program Committee of the 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks. September 27-30, 2015, Berlin, Germany
2015-2016 Co-Chair of the Third International Workshop on Energy Aware Systems, Communications and Security, Crans-Montana (CH), March 23-25, 2016. In conjunction with the 30 th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2016) .
2015 Co-chair of the Smart Spaces and Intelligent Environments track in the 9th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS-2015), Blumenau (Brazil), 8-10 July, 2015.
2015 Member of the Program Committee of the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2015, Ischia (Italy) May 18-21, 2015.
2014 Member of the PhD in Computer Engineering program committee at the University of Genova.
2014 Member of the Program Committee of the 4th IFIP International Workshop on Security and Cognitive Informatics for Homeland Defense, September 8 th -12 th , 201 4 , University of Fribourg , Switzerland. In conjunction with ARES 2014
2014 Member of the Program Committee of The 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, September 22-25, 2014, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2014 Co-Chair for the Parallel Computing and Multicore Systems track in the 6-th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, INCoS-2014, Salerno, IT, September 10 - 12, 2014
2014 Member of the Program Committee of The 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, June 2 - 5, 2014, Hasselt, Belgium
2014 Co-Chair of the Seventh International Workshop of Intelligent Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction, Birmingham, UK, 2rd-4th of July 2014
2014 Co-Chair of the Security Track of the The Eighth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing, Birmingham, UK, 2rd-4th of July 2014
2013-2014 Co-Chair of the Second International Workshop on Energy Aware Systems, Communications and Security, Salerno, Italy, 10th-12th of September 2014. In conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2014).
2011 to 2014 Proposal Evaluator for the Regione Lazio
2013 Proposal Evaluator for the Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia
2013 Member of the Program Committee of the The 4th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 21st-24th of October 2013
2012-2013 Co-Chair for the Parallel Computing and Multicore Systems track in the 16th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, Gwangju, Korea, 4th-6th of September 2013
2012-2013 Co-Chair of the Sixth International Workshop of Intelligent Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction, Taichung, Taiwan, 3rd-5th of July 2013
2012-2013 Co-Chair of the First International Workshop on Energy Aware Systems, Communications and Security, Barcelona, Spain, 25th-28th of March 2013
2011-2012 Co-Chair of the First International Workshop on Green, Energy Aware Security, Padova July 19th 2012
2011 Proposal Evaluator for the Italian Government
2011 Proposal Evaluator for the EU.
2011 Member of the PhD in Computer Engineering program committee at the University of Palermo.
2010-2011 Smart Spaces and Intelligent Environments Track Chair of the Fourth International Workshop of Intelligent Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction, Seoul June 30th July 2nd 2011.
2010 Member of the Committee for the admission to the Computer Engineering PhD program at the University of Palermo.
2009-2010 Member of the PhD in Computer Science program committee at the University of Genoa.
2009 Proposal Evaluator for the Emilia Romagna regional government.
2009 Proposal Evaluator for the EU.
2006 to 2008 Research Consultant for Si.Ge.Co. in a project for the design and development of a Grid System suited to SME adoption.
2007 Proposal evaluator for the EU.
2004-2005 Consultant for Marconi Communications for the development of the control and system software of the "Next Generation Access Hub".
2002 Consultant for Sistemi e Telematica Porto di Genova s.p.a. for maintaining and enhancing an Object Oriented real time messaging system.
1999-2000 member of the program committee of the International Conference on Internet Computing.
1997 Consultant for the SIS s.n.c. for the design and development of EDI systems.
1997 System and Network Manager for the Shipping Agents Compartment of the Port of Genova ( Italy ).
1996 Consultant for Sistemi e Telematica Porto di Genova s.p.a. for the design and development of Port Areas visual Monitoring System (PAMS). The system is currently used in the port of Genova ( Italy ).
1996 Consultant for the SIS s.n.c. for the design and development of a system for the distributed gathering and management of shipping documents. The system is currently used by the Shipping Agents Compartment of the Port of Genova .
1995 Consultant for Sistemi e Telematica Porto di Genova s.p.a. for the design and development of an Object Oriented real time messaging system. The system is currently used inside the docking facilities of many ports (e.g. Cagliari-IT, Genova-IT, Mina Sakr-AE).
1994 Consultant for Ascom s.p.a. for the design and development of ISDN switching equipment.
1992-1993 Network and System Manager for the Italian Army.
1991 Consultant for Marconi Italiana s.p.a. in cooperation with GEC UK for design and development of embedded security systems for WAN.
Awards and other academic activities
1998 to present , Supervisor of more than seventy Thesis at Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. Level, at Universita' di Padova, Universita' di Genova and Emory University
2013 Winner of the Canada-Italy Innovation Award
2013 Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 27 th IEEE International Conference on
Advanced Information Networking and Applications
2012 Winner of the Best Paper Award at the IFIP SEC 2012 27 th International Information Security and Privacy Conference
2003-2010 , Supervisor of the E5 Computer Lab for the Department of Communication, Computer and System Science, University of Genova
2008 , Organization and Management of the Universita' di Genova PhD students' Workshop on Grid Computing (http://harness.cipi.unige.it/JavaMiddlewarePerGrid/WS2008.htm)
2007 , Organization and Management of the Universita' di Genova PhD students' Workshop on Grid Computing (http://harness.cipi.unige.it/JavaMiddlewarePerGrid/WS2007.htm)
MAIN RESEARCH FIELDS
Cybersecurity
Cyber-Physical Systems
Ambient Intelligence for Human Memory support
Mobile, Pervasive, Distributed systems.
Computer and Network Security
Energy Aware Security
Technologies and Methodologies for the design and development of complex software systems.
Software Components Technologies and Computational Paradigm.
Metacomputing, Grid-Computing, Cloud Computing, Mobile-Computing.
Enterprise Oriented Computing.
Technologies and Methodologies for the Integration of Heterogeneous parallel and distributed architectures, programming paradigms and models.
Complex Distributed Multimedia systems.
Performance Evaluation of distributed systems and software.
High speed networks.
MAIN FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
Android.
Design and Implementation of Complex, Distributed Software Systems.
Web Services and XML technologies.
Web 3.0.
OOP (mainly Java and C++).
System and kernel level linux programming.
Soft Real Time linux.
Advanced Java2 technologies (RMI, JNI, Object Serialization, Jini, etc.).
Java2 Enterprise Platform
CORBA.
Design and development of software systems distributed over heterogeneous networks.
System level programming skills in BSD and SysV Unix environments.
Windowing systems and graphical interfaces programming skills (mainly X-Windows, some MS-Windows).
Standards and algorithms for de/compression and coding of still images, video streams and voice.
Geographic networks security.
Embedded systems for network security.
Communication protocols definition, development and consistency checks.
ISDN protocols and finite state automata. Digital telephony.