Hi!
after six enjoyable years spent in New York City, first at the
Computer Science Department of New York University,
then at AT&T Labs, and lastly at
Bell-Labs
as member of the Secure System Research Department, I moved back to Italy...
and to school as well! I started my Ph.D. at the
Computer Science Department of University
of Pisa in the
Wireless Group and Mobile Computing.
Currently, I am at MIT, as a shared Ph.D. student, working on my thesis with Professor
Nancy Lynch in
the
Theory of Distributed Systems Group research group at
CSAIL MIT.
My research interests focus mainly on Byzantine-tolerance and on
the design of fault-tolerant protocols suitable to highly dynamic systems such
as wireless sensor networks.
In particular, I am interested in the efficiency and scalability
issues of fault-tolerant primitives, including randomized approaches and
quorum system techniques.
Blending theory and
practice motivated me to switch to Computer Science after my MS in Math, and
this interest is still strong.
I find very interesting the interaction among different research areas, and feel that
having worked as a software engineer for few years was a useful experience for me to get a grip with the real world, and
to find out what I like best! :-)
Last modified June 2004.