Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Physics "Ennio De Giorgi"
Contacts:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "Ennio De Giorgi", Università del Salento
Provinciale Lecce-Arnesano, P.O. Box 193, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Email: vittorio DOT bilo AT unisalento DOT it
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/vittoriobilo
Research Interests
Algorithmic Game Theory,
Computational Social Choice,
Computational Complexity and Design of Efficient Algorithms.
Biography
24th December 1975: I was born in Giulianova (TE).
24th July 2001: Laurea Degree in Computer Science, University of L'Aquila. Thesis Title: "Algoritmi di scheduling online per l'ottimizzazione del tempo di esecuzione e della memoria richiesta". Advisor: Prof. Michele Flammini. Grade: 110/110 summa cum laude.
6th June 2005: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of L'Aquila. Thesis Title: "Pricing and Equilibria in Non-Cooperative Networks". Advisor: Prof. Michele Flammini. Grade: "ottimo".
3rd September 2004: I won a national competition for the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Lecce (then become University of Salento).
1st January 2005: I was hired as an Assistant Professor by the University of Lecce.
1st November 2016: I was promoted to Associate Professor.
Awards
1995-2000: I won six consecutive fellowships for undergraduate students awarded by the "Azienda per il Diritto allo Studio" of L'Aquila.
2002-2004: I won a three year fellowship for Ph.D. students awarded by the University of L'Aquila.
20 September 2005: I won the prize for the best Italian Ph.D. thesis in Theoretical Computer Science of 2005 awarded by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
23 August 2021: Distinguished Program Committee Member award by IJCAI 2021.
27 January 2021: National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as full professor in Operations Research.
21 July 2023: National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as full professor in Computer Science.
September 2023: Best paper award at SAGT 2023.
3 October 2023: "Early Bird" award by ECAI 2023.
Students
Cosimo Vinci (currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Salento), winner of the prizes for the best PhD Thesis of 2018 and the best Young Researcher in Theoretical Computer Science, both awarded by the Italian Chapter of EATCS.
National and International Collaborations
14 October - 12 November 2003: Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh (US), hosted by Prof. R. Ravi.
15 November - 31 December 2004 and 21 January - 20 February 2005: Visiting Scholar at the University of Patras (Greece), hosted by Prof. Christos Kaklamanis.
2 - 11 May, 16 - 23 July 2011, 11 - 23 February 2012, 5 - 13 August 2013, 9 - 16 August 2014, 5 - 12 August 2015, 20 - 31 August 2016 and 25 - 29 September 2019: Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus, hosted by Prof. Marios Mavronicolas.
19 January - 19 February, 3 - 16 September 2018 and 21 January - 2 February 2019: Visiting Professor at LAMSADE of University Paris-Dauphine, hosted by Jerome Monnot and Laurènt Gourves.
11 - 26 January 2024: Visiting Professor at LAMSADE of University Paris-Dauphine, hosted by Angelo Fanelli and Laurènt Gourves.
31 July - 11 August 2023: hosted a research visit by Vangelis Markakis from Athens University of Economics and Business.
25 March - 2 April 2024: hosted a research visit by Pascal Lenzner from Hasso Plattner Institute.
Journal (Guest) Editor
Guest Editor of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier) - 2019
Guest Editor of Theory of Computing Systems (Springer) - 2019
Program and Organizing Committees
I was co-chair of ICTCS 2016 and SAGT 2017.
I am serving in the Program Committee of EAI GAMENETS 2024, SAGT 2024, ECAI 2024.
I served in the Program Committee of IJCAI 2024, AAMAS 2024, AAAI 2024, SPIRIT 2023, ECAI 2023, EUMAS 2023, SAGT 2023, EuroPar 2023, ACM EC 2023, IJCAI 2023, CIAC 2023, AAMAS 2023, AAAI 2023 (Student Abstract Program), SAGT 2022, ACM EC 2022, IJCAI 2022, AAMAS 2022 (Senior PC), AAAI 2022, AAAI 2022 (Student Abstract Program), LAGOS 2021, IJCAI 2021, AAMAS 2021, AAAI 2021, AAAI 2021 (Student Abstract Program), ICTCS 2020, SAGT 2020, IJCAI 2020, ECAI 2020, AAMAS 2020, AAAI 2020, AAAI 2020 (Student Abstract Program), ICTCS 2019, SAGT 2019, ICALP 2019, SIROCCO 2019, IJCAI 2019, AAAI 2019, WINE 2018, IJCAI-ECAI 2018, EC 2018, CILC 2017 and IJCAI 2016.
Invited Talks
“The Complexity of Computational Problems about Nash Equilibria in Multi-Player Games”, GSSI Algorithmic Summer Workshop: Algorithms, Games and Markets, L’Aquila, Italy 13-14 July 2017.
“The Price of Stability of Undirected Broadcast Games is Constant”, LAMSADE, University Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France, 13 February 2018.
“Uniform Mixed Equilibria in Network Congestion Games with Link Failures”, Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory and Internet Economics, Sanya, Hainan, China, 26 – 30 March 2018.
“Price of Anarchy in Congestion Games with Priority-Based Scheduling”, Workshop on 20 Years of the Price of Anarchy, Chania, Greece, 2 – 5 July 2019.
“Bin Packing Games”, Bin Packing Seminar Series (online), 31 March 2021.
“The Primal-Dual Method for Congestion Games”, Coffee Hour with Vittorio Bilò, University of California (online), 20 May 2021.
“Hedonic Games with Fixed-Size Coalitions”, ADYN Seminars (online), 9 January 2023.
Service
Member of the scientific board of the Ph.D. program in Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Salento since 2010.
Member of the Council of the Italian Chapter of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science.
Responsibility of National and International Research Projects
Principal Investigator of National Project "GAMES", Cascade Call issued by Spoke 9: Università della Calabria within the PNRR Project "Future Artificial Intelligence Research" (FAIR).
Membership in National and International Research Projects
National Project REAL-WINE: “Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks”.
European Project COST action 293: “Graphs and Algorithms in Communication Networks”.
National Project PRIN 2008 COGENT: “Computational and Game-Theoretic Aspects of Uncoordinated Networks”.
Local Project "5 per mille per la ricerca" of the University of Salento: “Collisioni fra vortici puntiformi e fra filamenti di vorticità: singolarità, trasporto e caos”, 2011.
National Project PRIN 2010-2011 ARS TechnoMedia: "Algorithmics for Social Technological Networks''.
National Project POS 2014-2020 "TEBAKA - Sistema per acquisizione conoscenze di base del territorio".
National Project Innovation Grant Proposal "Hammon" - Issued by Spoke 2: ICSC National Research Centre for High Performing Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing.
National Project Innovation Grant Proposal "Agro@Intesa" - Issued by Spoke 2: ICSC National Research Centre for High Performing Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing.
National Project "Deterrence", Cascade Call issued by Spoke 2: Università di Salerno within the PNRR Project "Misinformation and Fakes" (SERICS).
Reviewer Activity
I have acted as a reviewer for the following highly reputed conferences (in alphabetical order):
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC)
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)
Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC)
Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE)
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS)
European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA)
IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP)
International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO)
International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC)
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT)
International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS)
Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC)
Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS)
Latin and American Algorithms, Graphs and Optimization Symposium (LAGOS)
Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Sciences (STACS)
Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA)
journals (in alphabetical order):
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Discrete Optimization
Games and Economic Behavior
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Information and Computation
Information Processing Letters
INFORMS Journal on Computing
International Journal of Game Theory
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Journal of Interconnection Networks
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Journal of Scheduling
Mathematical Programming
Mathematics of Operations Research
MPDI Algorithms
MPDI Games
Networks
Operations Research
Operations Research Letters
SIAM Journal on Computing
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Social Choice and Welfare
Theoretical Computer Science
Theory of Computing Systems
and research projects submitted to the following entities:
National Science Centre (Poland)
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Netherlands)
Dutch Research Council (Netherlands)
Hamburg Graduate School for Data-Driven Participatory Smart Cities (Germany)
Teaching
Academic Years 2023/2024: I will be teaching the courses "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati", "Algorithmic Game Theory" and "Programmazione" (degree in Mathematics).
Academic Year 2022/2023: I taught the courses "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati", "Programmazione" (degree in Mathematics) and "Informatica" (degree in Physics) at the University of Salento.
Academic Years 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022: I taught the courses "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati", "Algorithmic Game Theory" and "Programmazione" (degree in Mathematics).
Academic Year 2017/2018: I taught the courses "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati", "Algorithmic Game Theory" and "Programmazione" (degree in Mathematics) and "Abilità Informatiche e Telematiche per lo Spettacolo" (degree in Arts, Music and Performing Arts) at the University of Salento.
Academic Year 2016/2017: I taught the courses "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati" and "Programmazione" at the University of Salento (degree in Mathematics).
Academic Year 2015/2016: I taught the courses "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati" and "Algoritmi e Complessità" at the University of Salento (degree in Mathematics).
Academic Year 2014/2015: I taught the course "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati" at the University of Salento (degree in Mathematics).
Academic Year 2013/2014: I taught the courses "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati" and "Algoritmi e Complessità" at the University of Salento (degree in Mathematics).
Academic Year 2010/2011, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013: I taught the course "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati" at the University of Salento (degree in Mathematics).
Academic Years 2008/2009 and 2009/2010: I taught the course "Linguaggi di Programmazione" at the University of Salento (degree in Mathematics).
Academic Years 2006/2007 and 2007/2008: I taught the courses "Linguaggi di Programmazione" and "Laboratorio di Programmazione" both at the University of Salento (degree in Mathematics and Computer Science).
Academic Year 2005/2006: I taught the courses "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati" and "Linguaggi di Programmazione" both at the University of Salento (degree in Mathematics and Computer Science).
Academic Year 2004/2005: I taught the course "Linguaggi di Programmazione" at the University of Salento (degree in Mathematics and Computer Science).
Academic Year 2003/2004: I have collaborated to the teaching activities of the University of L'Aquila within the courses "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati II: Tecniche Evolute" taught by Prof. Michele Flammini (degree in Computer Science), by giving seminars, "Laboratorio di Calcolatori I" taught by Prof. Michele Flammini (degree in Physics), by giving seminars and performing exams and "Laboratorio di Bioinformatica" taught by Dr. Pasquale Caianiello (degree in Biotechnologies), by giving seminars and performing exams.
Academic Year 2002/2003: I have collaborated to the teaching activities of the University of L'Aquila within the courses "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati II: Tecniche Evolute" taught by Prof. Michele Flammini (degree in Computer Science), by giving seminars, "Algoritmi e Strutture Dati I" taught by Prof. Guido Proietti (degree in Computer Science), by performing exams, "Laboratorio di Calcolatori I" taught by Prof. Michele Flammini (degree in Physics), by giving seminars and performing exams and "Laboratorio di Architettura degli Elaboratori" taught by Dr. Henry Muccini (degree in Computer Science), by giving seminars and performing exams.
Academic Year 2001/2002: I have collaborated to the teaching activities of the University of L'Aquila within the courses "Laboratorio di Calcolatori I" taught by Prof. Michele Flammini (degree in Physics), by giving seminars and performing exams and "Laboratorio di Architettura degli Elaboratori" taught by Prof. Eugenio Omodeo (degree in Computer Science), by giving seminars and performing exams.