Curriculum

Curriculum of Stefano Leonardi

Work Experience:

    • August - December 2016, Visiting Scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of Berkeley

    • April - September 2013, Visiting Scientist at Google Inc., April - September 2013.

    • January 2013 - Senior Research Fellow, Sapienza School for Advanced Studies

    • January 2005 - Full Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Faculty of Enigineering.

    • August 2005 December 2005, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Aladdin Center, Department of Computer Science.

    • November 2001 December 2004, Associate Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Faculty of Enigineering.

    • September 2000 October 2001, Researcher, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Faculty of Enigineering.

    • May 1997 - October 1997, February 1997 - June 1997, Post-doc in the “Algorithms and Complexity” group at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbreucken, Germany.

    • January 1996 - September 1996, Post-doc in the Theory Group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, USA.

    • October 1997 - August 2000, Research fellow, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Faculty of Enigineering.

Education and Training:

Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Advisor: Prof. Giorgio Ausiello): “On-line Resource Management with Application to Routing and Scheduling”, February 1996.

Visitor at the Department of Computer Science of Tel-Aviv University (June-July 1994, March-June 1995) with Prof. Amos Fiat.

Degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, July 1991.

Post-doctoral researchers:

    • Jochen Koenemann (PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, USA), September 2003 - August 2004, currently Professor at University of Waterloo.

    • Alexander Kesselman (PhD at Tel-Aviv University, Israel), October 2003 - February 2004, currently at Google Inc.

    • Panayiotis Tsaparas (PhD at University of Toronto, Canada), October 2003 - February 2004, currently at Microsoft Research

    • Guido Schaefer (PhD at Max-Plank Institute fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany), September 2004 - August 2005, currently researcher at CWI - Amsterdam.

    • Luciana Salete Buriol (PhD at University of Campinas, Brazil), January 2004 - August 2005, currently Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil.

    • Carlos Castillo (PhD at University of Santiago, Chile), September 2005, August 2006, currently researcher at Yahoo! Research, Barcelona.

    • Piotr Sankowski (PhD at University of Warsaw, Poland), September 2006 - March 2008, December 2009 - December 2010, ERC starting grant award 2010, currently Professor at University of Warsaw.

    • Aris Anagnostopoulos (PhD at Brown University), October 2008 - May 2010, Marie-Curie Fellow June 2010 - March 2012. Curently Assistant Professor at Sapienza University of Rome.

    • Erik Jan van Leeuwen (PhD at TU Eindhoven), February 2012 -

Program Chairs, Editorial Boards, Steering Committees, Award Committees

    • Conference General Chair with Alessandro Panconesi, ACM Web Search and Data Mining 2013 (WSDM 2013) to be held in Rome on February 5 - 8, 2013.

    • Conference General Chair with Aldo Gangemi and Alessandro Panconesi, WWW 2015, to be held in Florence in April 2015.

    • Invited Speaker at ICALP 2012.

    • Award Committee, EATCS Presburger Award, 2010-2012 for outstanding contribution given from a young researcher to Theoretical Computer Science. The award is named after Mojzesz Presburger who invented Presburger arithmetic as a student in 1929.

    • Program and Conference Chair, 5th Workshop on Internet and network Economics, Rome, December 2009

    • Program Chair, 13th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms - ESA 2005, Ibiza, Spain, October 2005.

    • Program Chair, 2nd Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph WAW2004, in conjunction with IEEE FOCS04, Roma, October 16, 2004.

    • Editorial board, Journal of Interconnection Networks, since 2003.

    • Member of Steering Committee, European Symposium on Algorithms, 2004 - 2007.

    • Editorial board, ACM Transactions on Algorithms, since 2008.

Program Committees:

    • EC 2012 - 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

    • PODS 2012 - 31st ACM Symposium on Database Systems - External Review Committee

    • WAW 2012 - Workshop on Models and Algorithms for the Web

    • ICALP 2012 - 39th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming - Track A (Algorithms, Complexity and Games)

    • FOCS 2011 - 52nd IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science

    • ICALP 2011 - 38th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming - Track A (Algorithms, Complexity and Games)

    • WAW 2011 - Workshop on Models and Algorithms for the Web

    • SEA 2011 - Symposium on Experimental Algorithms.

    • WINE 2010 - 6th Workshop on Internet and Network Economics

    • WAOA 2010 - 8th Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (ALGO 2010)

    • ICALP 2010 - 37th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming - Track C (Foundations of Networked Computation)

    • ESA 2010 - 18th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms - Track B (Experiments and Applications)

    • SWAT 2010 - Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithmic Theory

    • FCT 2009: Fundamentals in Computing Theory

    • WI 2009: IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence

    • ADN 2009: 2nd International Workshop on Analysis of Dynamic Networks (ADN 2008) in conjunction with SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2009

    • SASO 2009: Third IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

    • WINE 2008: Workshop on Internet and Network Economics

    • SAGT 2008: First European Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory

    • ADN 2008: 1st International Workshop on Analysis of Dynamic Networks (ADN 2008) in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2008

    • APPROX 2008: Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

    • WAOA 2008: Workshop on On-line and Approximation Algorithms

    • WSDM 2008: first International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

    • CAAN 2007: Fourth Workshop on Combinatorial and Algorithmic Aspects of Networking

    • SPAA 2007: 9th Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

    • GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference

    • SASO 2007: First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

    • ICALP 2006: 33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming

    • CAAN 2006: Third Workshop on Combinatorial and Algorithmic Aspects of Networking

    • STACS 2004: 21th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science

    • ALGOSENSORS 2004: 1st International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks

    • SODA 2003: 14th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

    • SPAA 2003: 15th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures.

    • WAW 2003: 2nd Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph

    • APPROX 2003: International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems Princeton

    • ICALP 2003: 30th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming

    • ESA 2001: 9th European Annual Symposium on Algorithms

    • APPROX 2000: Third International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms