Bio sketch

I currently work as full professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". I obtained a PhD in in computer engineering from the same institution with a work on efficient data dissemination through the publish/subscribe communication paradigm.

My research activities are focussed on various computer science fields including:

The results of these activities have been published on several papers appeared on renewed international conferences and journals. I also regularly serve in the technical program committees of conferences in the field of dependability, event-based communications and autonomic systems, and collaborate as a reviewer for international conferences and journals in my research areas. 

Since May 2023 I'm member of the ACM Eurosys Steering Committee.

Since July 2020 I'm member of the ACM DEBS conference Steering Committee.

Since 2022 I'm coordinator of the PhD program in Cybersecurity, a joint efort between Sapienza and Luiss.

Finally, in February 2022 I've been elected president of the national cybersecurity competence center CYBER 4.0.

In the past I collaborated in the activities of several EU funded projects in the area of home automation (SM4All project), ubiquitous computing and smart spaces (SOFIA project), ICT for energy efficiency (eDIANA project), and collaborative monitoring of financial infrastructures (CoMiFin project). Currently, I lead Sapienza's research unit in the EU-GUARDIAN project.

I'm also part of the Research Center of Cyber Intelligence and Information Security (CIS), a multidisciplinary center developing new knowledge and operational methodologies to gather relevant information from cyber and physical environments and to transform it through intelligence processes in enriched information that can be used to prevent incidents that can harm the society by creating at the same time smarter complex systems. Within the activities carried out at CIS, in collaboration with CINI National Cybersecurity Lab, I co-manage the maintenance and evolution of the Italian National Cybersecurity Framework.


2023-now - Full professor - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" 

2023-now - Member - ACM Eurosys Steering Committee

2022-now - President - Competence center CYBER 4.0

2022-now - Coordinator - PhD program in Cybersecurity, co-organized by Sapienza University of Rome and Luiss University

2022-now - Member - Scientific Committee of Accademia di Cybersicurezza Lazio

2020-now - Member - ACM DEBS Steering Committee

2020-2023 - Associate professor - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" 

2008-2020 - Assistant professor (ricercatore) - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" 

2003-2006 - PhD in Computer Engineering (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"). Thesis "Techniques for efficient event routing". 

2003 - Master degree in Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Please contact me if you are interested in my full curriculum vitae.