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Education:

Current: PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Major Area: Systems and Networking
Advisor: Robin H. Kravets

Academic grade: Master's degree (5-years Laurea, V.O.) Telecommunication Engineering – Systems and networking
program at University of Padova, Italy – April 2006
Advisor: Michele Zorzi

Research Interests:

My research focuses primarily on the design of efficient algorithms for wireless mobile ad-hoc networks. Embedded sensors in mobile devices such as cars and smart phones present new opportunities to collect location-specific data about the environment. This data can be used for a great number of real-time applications. A major challenge is efficiently collecting, storing and sharing the data. I am interested in understanding the tradeoffs between energy consumption, network load and storage in the design of a fully distributed ad-hoc solution to this problem.

Research Experience:

Graduate Research Assistant - University of Illinois (Aug 2007 – present) 

• Design and implementation of a failure-robust service discovery protocol for the management of ubiquitous computing systems with applications in healthcare and smart environments.
• Design and evaluation of a replication system that provides reliable in-network data storage on Wireless Sensor Networks using probabilistic failure prediction models.
• Design and evaluation of a system that provides effective data detection in Wireless Sensor Networks.
• Design and evaluation of an energy efficient MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks.
• Design and evaluation of a location-based data overlay network protocol for disruption-tolerant networks.
• Currently working on the design and deployment of a campus-wide multi-interface vehicular network testbed equipped with wireless radios, on-board sensors, GPS and mobile phones, to experiment a variety of sensing applications, and energy efficient protocols and DTN protocols in a real-world deployment. 

Research Intern - HP Labs (August 2009 -- December 2011)

• Design and evaluation of a location-based data overlay network protocol for disruption-tolerant networks.
• Design, implementation and experimental evaluation of CSI-SF, an estimation algorthm that reduces significantly the overhead to fully estimate the channel state of a MIMO link.

Research Intern - University of Padova (May 2009 -- August 2009)

• Improvement and Implementation of a stable distribution of SYNAPSE, a network programming application for Sensor Networks based on Fountain Codes. Experimental evaluation of the protocol in multi-hop scenarios.

 Research Intern - IBM Research (May 2008 -- August 2008)

• Deployment of a full-scale, remotely managed testbed to support implementation and performance evaluation of SEAIT, wireless sensor network solution that provides real-time visibility and mechanical health monitoring to the railroad system.

Research Scientist - Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche (Italy) (May 2006 -- July 2007)

• Design, deployment and maintenance of a Wireless Sensor Network.
• Design, implementation and performance evaluation of localization algorithms, routing protocol for WSNs and data dissemination protocols using network coding.
• Implementation of a prototype of a healthcare provisioning architecture.

Industry Experience:

Instructor - Eureka s.n.c.

• 200 hours of teaching experience on Office Automation application, for private and industries.

Developer – Network Administrator 

• Development of a tracking and labeling system for the meat processy industry.
• Design and deployment of office Intranet and network administration.

About Me

Projects

Wireless Sensor Networks:

• SyNaPse - over the air network programming for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Pirrus - distributed data replication for improved availability
• TotalSense - cooperative distributed event detection
  

Vehicular Networks / DTNs

•  LOCUS - A Vehicular-based Content Management Network for Location-centric Applications

   

My publications