About me

Short Bio

I am a Senior Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pisa. I have been an alumnus of the University of Pisa, in 2003 I obtained a B.Sc. in Computer Science and, in 2004, an M.Sc. in Computer Technologies.

From March 2005 to July 2008 I was a PhD student in the Computer Science and Engineering program at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca and in 2008 I defended my PhD thesis titled “Tools and Models for High-Level Parallel and Grid Programming” supervised by Prof. Marco Danelutto, achieving my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering.

From 2005 to 2022 I have been a member of the High-Performance Computing Laboratory (HPCLab), part of the Institute of Information Science and Technologies “Alessandro Faedo” of the National Research Council of Italy.

Since the beginning of 2020, I have been Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Pervasive Artificial Intelligence Lab, a joint research laboratory involving the Institute of Information Science and Technologies “Alessandro Faedo” of the National Research Council of Italy. and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pisa.

I have served as the Scientific Coordinator of the EU-South Korea H2020 BASMATI project, Project Coordinator for the EU H2020 ACCORDION Project, and Innovation Coordinator for the EU H2020 TEACHING Project. I have been a (co-)author of approximately 150 papers in international journals and conferences on High-Performance Distributed Systems topics, and co-author of the book “Cloud Broker and Cloudlet for Workflow Scheduling” (Springer).

I have been an active program committee member for numerous conferences in the field of large, distributed systems, including IEEE ICDCS, IEEE CLOUD, ACM SoCC, EuroPar, ACM SIGKDD, ACM WSDM, and ACM/IEEE IoTDI. I am a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing. I served as Program Co-chair for ParCo 2017 and the IEEE International Conference on JointCloud Computing 2023, as well as General Co-chair for the ACM High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Conference 2024.

I am part of the editorial board of ETRI Journal (Elsevier) and Springer Computing, and I am also serving as Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing (Springer Nature).

My research focus is mainly on Distributed Systems, Edge and Cloud Computing, and High-Performance Computing.