Novella Bartolini

Full Professor

IEEE Senior Member


Computer Science Department

Sapienza University of Rome

Via Regina Elena 295, building E, third floor, room 307.


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Highlights

I am a Full Professor at the Computer Science Department of Sapienza University of Rome and Senior Member of IEEE.

From 2014 to 2017 I was on leave for three years, working as visiting professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Penn State University.

I was awarded the prize "Sapienza Ricerca 2010" for my research on autonomous deployment of mobile sensors. This prize is awarded to the best works in all disciplinary areas carried out by researchers of Sapienza University of Rome.

I won the Best Paper Award at the prestigious 17-th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP).

I am a Senior Member of IEEE.

I am currently Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, the flagship journal in the networking area. I am a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Wireless Networks.

Previously I was in the Editorial Board of the journal Computer Networks. I was guest editor of the journal ACM Mobile Networks for the special issue on "Heterogeneous Networks".

I won the 2021 JPMorgan Chase Faculty Research Award, for my research "Understanding interdependent market dynamics: vulnerabilities and opportunities".

I won the 2020 JPMorgan Chase Faculty Research Award, for my research "The impact of trading strategies and market rules on the fairness of financial markets".

I was NATO Partner Director of the Project "Hybrid Sensor Networks for Emergency Critical Scenarios" (2015-2019).

I was co-PI of a DTRA award "State Estimation and Optimal Recovery in Networks with Massive Cascading Failures" (2015-2017).

I was also Principal Investigator of the Army Research Lab Project "Modeling and Robust Design of Dynamic Interdependent Networks" (2014-2015).

I was the PI of the research unit of Sapienza University of Rome of the Prin Project “Autonomic Security”.

I was General Chair of the conference QShine 2009. I was Program Chair of workshops IEEE AAA-IDEA 2005, ACM AAA-IDEA 2006. I am on the steering committee of ICST AAA-IDEA 2009.

My papers have been published by some of the most important conferences and journals in the area of computer networks: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE ICNP, IEEE IWQoS, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

Project coordination

    • NGIAtlantic.eu 2022, "Vulnerability Assessment and Robust Defenses for Optimized Attacks in Dynamic SDNs", Principal Investigator

    • JPMorgan Chase Faculty Research Award 2021, "Understanding interdependent market dynamics: vulnerabilities and opportunities", Principal Investigator

    • JPMorgan Chase Faculty Research Award 2020, "The impact of trading strategies and market rules on fairness of financial markets", Principal Investigator

    • NATO - Science for Peace and Security (2015-2019), Award Number G4936, "Hybrid Sensor Networks for Emergency Critical Scenarios", NATO Project Director

    • DoD DTRA (Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, USA), Award Number: HDTRA-1-10-1-0085, "State Estimation and Optimal Recovery in Networks with Massive Cascading Failures" (2015-2017), Co-PI

    • PSU ICS Seed Grant (2017) "Digital innovation in food security using a 28,000 farmer living lab in Kenya", Co-PI.

    • ARL (Army Research Lab), Award Number: W11NF-12-1-0610, "Modeling and Robust Design of Dynamic Interdependent Networks", (2014-2015), Principal Investigator.

    • MIUR PRIN 2008 (2009-2011) "Autonomic Security", Principal Investigator of the research unit of Sapienza "University of Rome".

    • EU Project GENESI (2009-2012) "GrEen sensor NEtworks for Structural monItoring", Work Package Leader.

    • Sapienza University Project FARI 2009, 2011, 2012 "Green Computing", Principal Investigator.

    • Sapienza University Project Sapienza 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, Principal Investigator for projects related to monitoring critical events and network management.

    • MIUR FIRB 2002-2005 "Web-Minds", Task Leader of the research unit of Sapienza "University of Rome".

Professional Activities

    • Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2022- )

    • Member of the editorial board of ACM Wireless Networks (2008- )

    • Member of the editorial board of Elsevier Computer Networks (2006-2008)

    • Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Heterogeneous Networking of ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications

    • General Co-Chair of QShine 2009

    • Steering Committee member of AAA-IDEA 2009

    • Co-Chair of the Wireless Communications Track of IEEE ICCCAS 2008

    • Program Co-Chair (with Virgilio Almeida) of IEEE AAA-IDEA 2006

    • Program Co-Chair (with Ludmilla Cherkasova) of IEEE AAA-IDEA 2005

    • Member of many program committees including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE Secon, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE IC2E, IEEE ICAC, IEEE ICNC, IFIP Wireless Days, IEEE QEST, BROADNETS, AlgoSensors, IEEE VTC, IEEE ICC

Awards and Recognitions

    • JPMorgan Chase Faculty Research Award in 2021

    • JPMorgan Chase Faculty Research Award in 2020

    • Elevated to Senior Member of IEEE in 2016

    • Best Poster Award at DoD DTRA (Department of Defense - Defense and Threat Reduction Agency, USA) Basic Research and Technical Review Meeting 2015, for the poster titled On Propagation of Phenomena in Interdependent Networks, by H. Khamfroush, N. Bartolini, T. La Porta.

    • Prize "Sapienza Ricerca 2010" for my work on autonomous deployment of mobile sensors.

    • Best Paper Award at the 17-th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (IEEE ICNP 2009) for the paper Autonomous Deployment of Heterogeneous Mobile Sensors, by N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, T. La Porta, A. Massini, S. Silvestri. This paper has also been awarded the prize for the Best PhD student paper of the Computer Science Department, from a student (S. Silvestri) I advised.

    • The paper Variable density deployment and topology control for the solution of the sink-hole problem was selected as one of the five best papers of the conference QShine 2009 for journal publication.

    • The paper Optimal Channel Assignment in Mobile Cellular Networks was selected as one of the best papers of the conference IEEE Dial-M 1997 for journal publication.

Teaching (current)

Thesis available for students of bachelor, master and PhD programs

Thesis opportunities are available on the following topics:

    • Mathematical underpinnings of computer network performance

    • Information diffusion in complex networks: fake news spreading processes, detection and mitigation

    • Cascading failures in complex networks

    • Multi-agent simulations for financial markets

    • Protocols for autonomous flight, coordination, routing and task assignments for aerial drones, drone aided communications

    • Network tomography

    • Software Defined Networks (SDN)

    • Massive failures in metropolitan/geographical area networks after disasters

    • Sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT)

    • Mobile networks

For more information see the thesis page and contact me at "myfirstname"@di.uniroma1.it.


Publications

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