research interests
computer system security; parallel, distributed, and networked systems.
phd students
Marco Valerio Barbera
Sokol Kosta
Natascia Piroso
past PhD students
Vishwas Patil, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
Harshit Shah, visiting student from TIFR, Mumbai.
professional activity
associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2005-2009).
general chair of IEEE IPDPS 2009, Rome, Italy.
vice-general chair of IEEE IPDPS 2008, Miami, FL, USA.
co-director of SWING 2009: Fourth Bertinoro PhD School on Security of Wireless Networking.
some other future activities tpc member of IEEE MASS 2010 and IEEE SECON 2010.
member of the Scientific Committee of the Master on Information and Network Security at Sapienza University of Rome.
Member of the IBM Academic Initiative System z Curriculum Advisory Panel, 2008.
awards
best paper award - IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, 2002 (with Romeo Rizzi).
ee-systems outstanding research paper award of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2000 (with Reetinder P. S. Sidhu and Viktor K. Prasanna).
best paper award in the Algorithms and Applications Area - Fifth IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance Computing (HIPC), Madras (India), 1998 (with Alan A. Bertossi).