Short bio
I am Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila (AQ), Italy.
Before joining the GSSI, I have been with various international research institutes like the Imperial College of London (UK) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany).
Among various national and international projects in which I was involved, I am scientific coordinator for the MUR-PRIN project DREAM (Young Line action) and the MUR-PRO3 project Software Quality. My main research interests include the quantitative modelling and analysis of interacting heterogeneous distributed systems.
I am especially interested in model-based performance analysis, software performance antipatterns, uncertainty, model-based testing, software quality optimisation, and software architectures.
Highlights
2023: Research Technical Track Program co-Chair for the European Conference on Software Architecture (Research Track @ ECSA 2023)
2022: Editorial Board member for Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Elsevier [JSS editorial board]
2021: 10-year Most Influential Paper Award at ICPE 2021 [certificate]
2020: Research Technical Track Program co-Chair for the International Conference on Performance Engineering (Research Track @ ICPE 2020)
2019: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Action Seal of Excellence provided by the European Commission for the project proposal "PLUS: Performance Learning for Uncertainty of Software" [certificate]
2017: selected for participation as Young Global Changer to The Think 20 Summit G20 Germany 2017 (acceptance: 8%) [certificate]
2015: selected for participation to 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum HLF 2015 (acceptance: 10%) [certificate]
Awards
2023: Best Paper Award for Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) submissions in 2022 [paper]
2022: Best Reviewer Award for the European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) [certificate]
2022: Best Reviewer Award for the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), [certificate]
2021: Best Reviewer Award for the International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) [certificate]
2018: Exceptional Reviewer Award for the International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) [certificate]
2016: Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing from the Editors of the Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier [certificate]
2015: Best Paper Award at European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) [certificate]
2014: Best Poster Award at International Conference on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture (CompArch) [certificate]
2013: ACM SIGSOFT Sof. Eng. Notes reports our QoSA paper in the list of Top 10 Downloaded Articles [link]
2011: Best Paper Award at International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) [certificate]
Program Committee (latest)
International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) Posters Track (Posters@FSE 2024)
International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024, ICSME 2023)
International Conference on Software Engineering - Artifact Evaluation Track (ICSE-Artifacts 2023)
International Conference on Software Engineering - Software Engineering in Practice Track (ICSE-SEIP 2023)
Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2024, SEAMS 2023, SEAMS 2022)
International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2024, ICPE 2023, ICPE 2022)
International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2024, ICSA 2023, ICSA 2022)
International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2024, ICST 2022)
European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2024, ECSA 2022)
Organizing Committee (latest)
Program co-Chair for the Doctoral Symposium Track for the International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (Doctoral Symposium @ QUATIC 2024)
Program co-Chair for the Doctoral Symposium Track for the International Conference on Software Testing (Doctoral Symposium @ ICST 2023)
Program co-Chair for the Artifact Evaluation Track for the International Conference on Software Architecture (Artifact Evaluation @ ICSA 2023)
Program co-Chair for the Tools and Demos Track for the European Conference on Software Architecture (Tools and Demos @ ECSA 2022)
Program co-Chair for the Student Research Competition Track for the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (Student Research Competition @ ASE 2021)
Program co-Chair for the Early Career Researchers Forum Track for the International Conference on Software Architecture (Early Career Researchers Forum @ ICSA 2021)
Program co-Chair for the Artifact Evaluation Track for the International Conference on Performance Engineering (Artifact Evaluation @ ICPE 2021)
Editorial service
Editorial Board member for Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Elsevier [more details].
Co-Editor for Empirical Software Engineering, Springer, special Issue on "Software Performance" together with: Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Concordia University, Canada;
Cor-Paul Bezemer, University of Alberta;
Andre van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany;
Weiyi Shang, Concordia University, Canada [more details].
I have been reviewer for the following most relevant journals: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE),
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), IEEE Software.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of L’Aquila (AQ), Italy.
Title of the thesis: "Automated generation of architectural feedback from software performance analysis results".
Advisor: Prof. Vittorio Cortellessa, [PhD Thesis - download].
Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the University of L’Aquila (AQ), Italy,
final rank: 110/110 cum laude.
Title of the thesis: "Design and composition of Performance models for
Osi Security Architecture".
Advisor: Prof. Vittorio Cortellessa.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at the University of L’Aquila (AQ), Italy,
final rank: 110/110 cum laude.
Title of the thesis: "Evaluation of services in Publisher/Subscriber
architectures with Petri Nets".
Advisor: Prof. Francesco Lo Presti.
Maturity at the Scientific Secondary School "Albert Einstein" of Teramo (TE), Italy,
final rank: 100/100.