Umberto Ferraro Petrillo is Assistant Professor at University of Rome - "La Sapienza".

He got his Laurea (M.Sc. equivalent) cum laude in Computer Science in 1997 and his PhD in Computer Science in 2002 from the University of Salerno. He has been a Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Salerno, in Rome at the Institute for Industrial Technologies and Application (Italian National Research Council), at the University of Rome - "La Sapienza" and at University of Rome - "Tor Vergata".