UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI ROMA TOR VERGATA
Principali linee di ricerca
– Distributed computing
– Random structures and dynamic networks
– Markov chains and randomized algorithms
– Game theory
– Cryptocurrency
CV sintetico
Education
– July 14, 2005: MSc in Mathematics (cum laude), Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
– March 23, 2009: PhD in Computer Science, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
Previous positions
– June 2009 – October 2016: Postdoc at Università degli Studi di Salerno, Sapienza Università di Roma, and Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”.
– November 2016 – October 2019: Assistant Professor at Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Service activity
– Since 2017: Member of the Academic Board of the PhD program in “Data Science” at Sapienza University of Rome
– Since 2022: Member of the Academic Board of the National PhD program in “Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology”
Research Projects
– Nov 2005 – June 2009: IST FET FP6-015964 Integrated Project AEOLUS Algorithmic Principles for Building Efficient Overlay Computers (Research team member in the unit of Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
– June 2010 – Sep 2012: Italian MIUR-PRIN Project COGENT Computational and Gametheoretic aspects of uncoordinated networks (Research team member in the unit of Università degli Studi di Salerno)
– June 2013 – Oct 2016: EU FET FP7-317532 Project MULTIPLEX Foundational Research on MULTI-level comPLEX networks and systems (Research team member in the unit of Sapienza Università di Roma)
– Dec 2013 – Nov 2015: Italian MIUR-PRIN 2010N5K7EB Project ARS-TECHNOMEDIA Algorithms for Techno-Mediated Social Networks (Research team member in the unit of Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
– March 2018 – Sep 2019: Università di Roma Tor Vergata – Mission: Sustainability – E81I18000110005 Project ISIDE – Information spreading and community detection in dynamic networks (Principal Investigator)
Awards
– May 2009: Best poster award at TCPP PhD Forum 2009 IPDPS
– May 2017: Young Researcher Award of the Italian Chapter – European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
Cryptocurrency Lab
The possibility to design an anonymous digital cash intrigued part of the computer science research community since the early 80s (see, e.g., [Chaum, Advances in cryptology, 1983]). The white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) marked a fundamental cornerstone in such research direction: the cryptocurrency proposed there, Bitcoin, has experienced an unprecedented growth worldwide, and ideas contained in Nakamoto’s paper opened new avenues of research and development.
The “Cryptocurrency Lab” at the University of Rome Tor Vergata is focused on the in-depth study of current development in cryptocurrency, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. We are mostly intrigued by research problems inspired by the Bitcoin ecosystem and specifically on those problems concerning modeling and analysis of the underlying network processes (e.g., stability of the unknown-by-design P2P Bitcoin network, channel rebalancing and routing problems on the Lightning Network).