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Alessandro Mei received his laurea degree in computer science summa cum laude from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1994, and his PhD in mathematics from the University of Trento, Italy, in 1999, under the supervision of Alan A. Bertossi. From 1998 to part of 1999, he worked as a research scholar at the Department of EE-Systems of the University of Southern California. Following this, he joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he is currently a full professor. From 2015 to 2021, he served as the Head of Department, and from 2018 to 2021, he was the Chairman of the Council of the directors of department of Sapienza University.

Alessandro Mei's primary research interests include distributed and networked systems, blockchain technology, and computer system security and privacy. He was a Marie Curie Fellow from 2010 to 2012 at both the University of California San Diego and Sapienza University, and he received the Google Faculty Research Award in 2012. Additionally, he served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers from 2005 to 2009 and as the general chair and general co-chair of IEEE IPDPS 2009, IEEE Mass 2021, and ACM CoNext 2022.