About me

Education

• Ph.D. Electrical and Information Engineering, University of L'Aquila (Italy), advisor Prof. Daniele Frigioni, March 2010.
• M.Sc. Computer Science Engineering (rating: 110/110 cum laude and hons), University of L'Aquila (Italy), advisor Prof. Daniele Frigioni, April 2006.
• B.Sc. Computer Science Engineering (rating: 110/110 cum laude), University of L'Aquila (Italy), advisor Prof. Serafino Cicerone, February 2004.

Previous positions

• May 2020 - present: Associate Professor at Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy.
• May 2017 - April 2020: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy.
• April 2014 - march 2017: Post-doc, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy.
• November 2013 - March 2014: Post-doc, Department of Informatics of the University of Pisa, Italy.
• October 2012 - September 2013: Post-doc, Department of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Perugia, Italy.
• September 2011 - October 2012: Post-doc, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA), Sophia-Antipolis, France.
• April 2010 - August 2011: Post-doc, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the University of L'Aquila, Italy.
• November 2006 - March 2010: PhD student, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the University of L'Aquila, Italy.
• August 2007 - November 2007: visiting, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science of Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dorothea Wagner.
• April 2008 - May 2008: visiting, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science of Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dorothea Wagner.

Organizing and program committees

Conference Boards and Steering committees

• Member of the Program Committee Board (PCB) of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). 2022-2024.
• Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA) from 2022.

PC Chair

• 6th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2021)
• 17th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2018).
• 17th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2017).

Senior Program Committees

• 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2026).
• 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( IJCAI 2025).
• 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025).
• 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023).
• 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( IJCAI 2021).

Program committees

• 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026).
• 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026).
• 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026) - Special Track on AI for Social Impact.
• 26th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2025).
• 2nd Workshop on Green-Aware Artificial Intelligence (Green-Aware AI 2025).
• 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025)
• 29th SIGKDD Conference On Knowledge Discovery And Data Mining (KDD 2024)
• 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024)
• 3rd Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2024)
• 24th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2024).
• 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024).
• 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024).
• 2nd Workshop on Strategies, Prediction, Interaction, and Reasoning in Italy (SPIRIT 2023).
• 28th SIGKDD Conference On Knowledge Discovery And Data Mining (KDD 2023).
• 23th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS2023).
• 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023).
• 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023).
• 14th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2023).
• 27th SIGKDD Conference On Knowledge Discovery And Data Mining (KDD 2022).
• 22nd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS2022).
• 20th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2022).
• 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022).
• 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022).
• 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022) - Student poster track.
• 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022) and 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2022).
• 23rd International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2021).
• 19th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2021).
• 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Senior PC member, (IJCAI 2021).
• 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021).
• 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021).
• 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021) - Student poster track.
• 23rd IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM2021).
• 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020).
• 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020).
• 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020) - Stundent poster track.
• 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2020).
• 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2020).
• 20th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS2020).
• 22nd IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM2020).
• 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019).
• 20th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2019).
• 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS2019).
• 21st IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM2019).
• 19th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2018).
• 6th International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR 2018).
• 20th IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM 2018).
• 20th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX 2018).
• 5th International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR 2017).
• 19th IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM 2017).
• 9th IEEE International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom 2017).
• 18th IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM 2016).
• 24th European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016).
• 17th IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM 2015).

Organizing committees

• ALGO 2026, L'Aquila
• 37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC2023), L'Aquila, 2023.
• 26th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2019), L'Aquila, 2019.
• 17th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2018), L'Aquila, 2018 - CHAIR
• 2nd GSSI Summer Meeting on Algorithms, L'Aquila, 13-14 luglio, 2017.
• 10th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory ( SAGT), L'Aquila, 2017.
• 1st GSSI Summer Meeting on Algorithms, L'Aquila, 9 giugno, 2016.
• 2nd ARRIVAL Review Meeting, Rome, 11 marzo, 2008.
• 2nd ARRIVAL Annual Workshop, Rome, 12--14 marzo, 2008.

Research projects

• PI of project GAMING - Graph Algorithms and MinINg for Green agents. FAIR Foundation
• Site leader and WP leader for WP2 of project SCHEDULE - Smart interseCtions witH connEcteD and aUtonomous vehicLEs. RESTARR Foundation
• Site leader for GSSI unit of project ALGADIMAR - Algorithms, Games, and Digital Markets. Italian Ministry of University and Research, PRIN 2017.
• Recipient of FFABR Funding 2017 - Fund for basic research. Italian Ministry of University and Research.
• Project member of ARRIVAL - Algorithms for Robust and on-line Railway optimization: Improving the Validity and reliAbility of Large-scale systems, IST-FET OPEN Specific Targeted Research Project within the 6th Framework Programme of European Community.
• Project member of MSC Project - Techniques and Technologies for surveillance. University of L'Aquila and Marconi-Selenia Communications.
• Project member of ARS TechnoMedia - Algoritmica per le Reti Sociali Tecno-mediate. Italian Ministry of University and Research, PRIN 2010.
• Project member of ARISE - Arising Robust Internetworked System for Emergency contexts. Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio della Provincia dell'Aquila.

Awards

• National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor in Computer Science (01/B1 - INF/01 - Informatica) and Computer Engineering (09/H1 - ING-INF/05 - Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazione), 2017
• National Academic Qualification as Full Professor in Computer Science (01/B1 - INF/01 - Informatica), 2020, and Computer Engineering (09/H1 - ING-INF/05 - Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazione), 2018
• EATCS Award for Best Italian Young Researcher in Theoretical Computer Science, 2016.
• Recipient of FFABR Funding 2017 - Fund for basic research. Italian Ministry of University and Research.

Ph.D. Students

• Mattia D'Emidio (Cosupervised with Daniele Frigioni), graduated 2014.
• Lorenzo Severini (Cosupervised with Pierluigi Crescenzi) graduated 2017.
• Yllka Velaj (Cosupervised with Pierluigi Crescenzi) graduated 2017.
• Francesco Cellinese (Cosupervised with Gianpiero Monaco), graduated 2019.
• Federico Corò (Cosupervised with Cristina M. Pinotti), graduated 2019.
• Mohammad Abouei Mehrizi, now at Delivery Hero.
• Esmaiel Delfaraz (Cosupervised with Hugo Gilbert), graduated 2023.
• Sajjad Ghobadi (Cosupervised with Ruben Becker), graduated 2023.
• Debashmita Poddar (Cosupervised with Cosimo Vinci), graduated 2023.
• Mirko Rossi (Cosupervised with Luciano Gualà), ongoing.
• Daniele Carnevale, ongoing.
• Mahsa Nikmard, ongoing.
• Hamed Azami-Zenouzagh, ongoing.
• Davi de Andrade Iacono, ongoing.