Career

• March 2022 - now. Postdoctoral Researcher. Big Data Algorithms Group, Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

• November 2020 - February 2022. Postdoctoral Researcher. Efficient Algorithms Group, Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

• November 2019 - October 2020. Postdoctoral Researcher. COATI Team, Inria Sophia Antipolis Mediterranée, Sophia Antipolis, France.

Education

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.

Projects

• Facebook Research Award 2021: Agent-based user interaction simulation to find and fix integrity and privacy issues (94,500 $) 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 $) for the project "Static prediction of test flakiness" (together with B. Miranda, A. Bertolino, R. Verdecchia). November 2019.

Academic Service

• Organization: WAND 2023 (co-located with DISC 2023)

• Program Committee: IJCAI 2024, AAMAS 2024, SDM 2024, IJCAI 2023, AAMAS 2023, IJCAI 2022, AAMAS 2022, IJCAI 2021, AAMAS 2021, ICAS 2019.

• Conference Sub-Reviewer: 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: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2023), Entropy (2022), Mathematics (2022), Stochastic Processes and their Applications (2022), Journal of Systems and Software (2021), Applied Network Science (2020), ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (2019), Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (2019).

• Volunteer: ICSE 2019, AAAI 2019, AAMAS 2018, ICPE 2017.

Awards

• Facebook Research Award 2021. September 2021.

• Prix d’excellence d’Université Côte d’Azur 2020. December 2020.

• Facebook Research Award 2019. November 2019.

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE 2019) for the paper "Scalable Approaches for Test Suite Reduction" (co-authored by 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.

Student Supervision

• Arno Gobbin. PFE at Polytech Nice Sophia. Master Project: Computational complexity of puzzles and games. 2019-2020.

Work Experience

JGraphT. March 2018 - June 2018.

• • Open source contributor (design and implementation of Java classes for random graphs generation)

A full version of my CV can be downloaded here.