Current Affiliation

  • Associate Professor at the CS Department, University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
    College of Science at Un. of Rome 'La Sapienza' ranked 30th in 2006 according to The Times academic institutions international ranking.
  • Director of the SEnsors NetworkS and Embedded Systems (SENSES) laboratory, part of "Sapienza Innovazione" Joint lab on Security Research. Sapienza Innovazione is the technological incubator of Rome University La Sapienza.

Education

  • PhD in Computer Engineering, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', 1998.
  • Laurea degree (MSc equivalent) in Computer Science with honors, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', 1993

Research Interests

Design and performance evaluation of telecommunication protocols, in particular in the area of mobile communications and networking. Current research addresses the design of energy-efficient solutions for wireless networks; the development and evaluation of protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks, personal area networks, RFID-based systems; the design of architectures and protocols for underwater sensor networks and delay tolerant networks; the design of architectures and systems for Personal Health Management; the development of solution for content delivery networks.

Previous working experiences

  • 2001-2006: Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Rome 'La Sapienza'
  • 1998-2000: Research Associate (post-doc position) at the Telecommunication Engineering Department, Politecnico di Milano
  • 1998: awarded a grant to work at the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency) on satellite telecommunications
  • 1995-1996: awarded a Fulbright grant. Visiting Research Associate at the Advanced Communications Technologies laboratory, Boston University.
  • 1994: worked at Alenia Spazio SpA

Students & Postdocs

Advised PhD students
Class of 2008

  • Michele Mastrogiovanni (Cross-layer solutions for terrestrial and underwater sensor networks)
  • Michele Nati (Cross-layer solutions for sensor networks, geographic routing)
  • Claudio Vicari (Replica placement and trasparent user requests redirection in Content Delivery Networks)
Class of 2009

Class of 2010

  • Roberto Petroccia (Hierarchical schemes for sensor networks, underwater sensor networks)
Current Postdocs
  • Gaia Maselli (Systems for assisted living, Heterogeneous wireless systems)
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