November 2024 - now. Assistant Professor with Tenure Track (RTT) in Computer Science (INFO-01). European University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
November 2020 - December 2024. Postdoctoral Researcher. Efficient Algorithms Group (leader: R. Elsässer) & Big Data Algorithms Group (leader: S. Forster), University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
November 2019 - October 2020. Postdoctoral Researcher. COATI Team (leader: D. Coudert), INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, Sophia Antipolis, France.
September 2017 - December 2017. Research Intern. D1: Algorithms and Complexity (leader: K. Mehlhorn), Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for Associate Professor in Computer Science (01/B1 - Informatica). November 2024. [link]
Ph.D. in Computer Science. December 2019.
Institute: Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy.
Thesis: Simple randomized distributed algorithms for graph clustering. [pdf]
Supervisors: Luca Becchetti and Emanuele Natale.
M.Sc. in Engineering in Computer Science. October 2016.
Institute: Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Thesis: Fully decentralized dynamics for graph clustering.
Supervisor: Luca Becchetti.
B.Sc. in Engineering in Computer Science and Control Engineering. October 2014.
Institute: Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Thesis: ReST vs SOAP: A Theoretical and Experimental Comparison of Web Services Performance (in the context of CockpitCI FP7 Project).
Supervisor: Francesco Delli Priscoli.
Facebook Research Award 2021: Agent-based user interaction simulation to find and fix integrity and privacy issues (94'500 USD) for the project "Testing non-testable programs using association rules" (together with B. Miranda, A. Bertolino, R. Verdecchia). September 2021.
Facebook Research Award 2019: Testing and Verification (47'250 USD) for the project "Static prediction of test flakiness" (together with B. Miranda, A. Bertolino, R. Verdecchia). November 2019.
Facebook Research Award 2021. September 2021.
Prix d’excellence d’Université Côte d’Azur 2020. December 2020. [booklet]
Facebook Research Award 2019. November 2019.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE 2019) for the paper "Scalable Approaches for Test Suite Reduction" (E. C., B. Miranda, R. Verdecchia, A. Bertolino). April 2019.
Computers Ph.D. Travel Award (700 CHF). Computers Open Access Journal. March 2019.
Laureato Eccellente. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. May 2017.
Percorso di Eccellenza. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. October 2016.
General Chair: WAND 2025 (co-located with DISC 2025), WAND 2024 (co-located with DISC 2024), WAND 2023 (co-located with DISC 2023)
Program Committee: AAAI 2026, ECAI 2025, SDM 2025, SEA 2025, IJCAI 2024, AAMAS 2024, SDM 2024, IJCAI 2023, AAMAS 2023, IJCAI 2022, AAMAS 2022, IJCAI 2021, AAMAS 2021, ICAS 2019.
Conference Sub-Reviewer: SOSA 2026, SODA 2026, SODA 2025, DISC 2024, MFCS 2024, PODC 2024, WINE 2023, APPROX 2023, FOCS 2023, ICALP 2023, SDM 2023, DISC 2022, MFCS 2022, TACAS 2022, ICALP 2021, SODA 2021, ESA 2020, ICALP 2020, AAMAS 2020, IJCAI 2019, SPAA 2019, OPODIS 2017.
Journal Reviewer: ACM Transaction on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of Systems and Software, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Applied Network Science, ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing, Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, Entropy, Mathematics.
Volunteer: ICSE 2019, AAAI 2019, AAMAS 2018, ICPE 2017.
Stefano Greco. University of Milan. Bachelor Project: "Exploiting Instance Hardness to Speed Up Prediction Time". 2023-2024.
Arno Gobbin. PFE at Polytech Nice Sophia. Master Project: "Computational complexity of puzzles and games". 2019-2020.