Anastasios Giovanidis
speaker
I am a computer science researcher interested in solving fresh research and development problems of information technology by applying advanced mathematical tools and doing validation and experimentation through data. My scientific expertise spans the fields of: probabilistic modeling, optimization, data analytics, machine learning. I have taught courses on these areas at Sorbonne University and Telecom ParisTech. The main focus of my work has been in the field of networks, especially telecom and social networks. However, the techniques that I use have a very large spectrum of applications.
Mario Baldi
speaker
I enjoy working at the intersection of innovation and development where the synergy between my curiosity for the novel and my interest in practical solutions can be highly profitable. I have been making a significant impact when applying my technical expertise and outstanding analytical skills to the design of systems and features. I have a proven experience in leading incubation and innovation projects, identifying avenues to generate revenue from their outcome, and transferring novel technologies to products. I have a track record in launching and managing complex research and innovation programs encompassing multiple interrelated projects involving multiple stakeholders, possibly including Universities.
Tommaso Melodia
speaker
Tommaso Melodia is the William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. He is also the Founding Director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things and the Director of Research for the PAWR Project Office. He received his Laurea (integrated BS and MS) from the University of Rome – La Sapienza and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He was named a College of Engineering Faculty Fellow in 2017 and received the Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award in 2018 – the highest research award in the College of Engineering at Northeastern University. Prof. Melodia has served as Associate Editor fo IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Elsevier Computer Networks, among others. He has served as Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE Infocom 2018, General Chair for IEEE SECON 2019, ACM Nanocom 2019, and ACM WUWnet 2014. Prof. Melodia is the Director of Research for the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office, a $100M public-private partnership to establish 4 city-scale platforms for wireless research to advance the US wireless ecosystem in years to come. The PAWR Project Office is co-lead by Northeastern University and US Ignite and is overseeing the overall deployment and operation of the PAWR Program. Prof. Melodia’s research on modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of Internet-of-Things and wireless networked systems has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Research Laboratory the Office of Naval Research, DARPA, and the Army Research Laboratory.
Marco Ajmone Marsan
organizer
He received his secondary education degree from the Liceo Classico Massimo d’Azeglio of Torino in 1969.
He received a Master Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in 1974 and a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1978.
From 1974 to 1987 he was teaching and doing research at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni of the Politecnico di Torino, first as a researcher and then as an associate professor.
In 1987 he was appointed Full Professor of Computer Science at the Computer Science Department of the University of Milan. From 1990 to 2021 he has been a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the Electronics and Telecommunications Department of the Politecnico di Torino.