Curriculum Vitae

Positions

  • 2023 - ongoing: Postdoctoral researcher at Bocconi University (Italy), working in professor Luca Trevisan’s team.
  • 2022 - 2023: Postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University (Finland), working in professor Jukka Suomela’s team.

Education

  • 2019 - 2022: Ph.D. in Computer Science at Inria & Université Côte D’Azur
    • Thesis Project: On the Collective Behaviors of Bio-inspired Distributed Systems (Manuscript)
    • Supervisors: Emanuele Natale and Nicolas Nisse
    • Visits:
      • September 2022: Visiting Ph.D. student at Aalto University, working with professor Jukka Suomela.
      • May 2022: Visiting Ph.D. student at Inria Rennes, working with George Giakkoupis.
      • December 2021: Visiting Ph.D. student at Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", working with Andrea Clementi.
      • June 2021: Visiting Ph.D. student at Gran Sasso Science Institute, working with Pierluigi Crescenzi.
      • October 2019 - January 2020: Visiting Ph.D. student at Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", working with Andrea Clementi.
  • 2016 - 2019: M.Sc. in Mathematics for Applications, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
    • Final evaluation: 110/110 with honors
    • Thesis: On the convergence time of the Undecided-State dynamics with three colors
    • Advisors: Andrea Clementi, Gustavo Posta
    • 24 ECTS in pedagogy, psychology, and education.
  • 2013 - 2016: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
    • Final evaluation: 110/110 with honors
    • Thesis: Il problema dell’omeomorfismo tra grafi diretti
    • Advisor: Ivano Salvo.

Students

Bachelor Thesis Supervision

  • February - May 2023:
    • Joona Jarre: Primality Testing and Integer Factoring, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
    • Peik Etzel: Coordinated Robot Motion Planning, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
    • Linus Jern: Population Protocols for the Consensus Problem, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

Teaching

  • July 2024: Ph.D. course on Causal Limits of Distributed Quantum Computation (6 hours), Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, Italy.
  • February - April 2022: Teaching practicum (56 hours) for the Database Course (PL/SQL) at Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Université Côte d’Azur.

Awards, Grants, and Scholarships

  • 2020: Winner of Borsa di Perfezionamento all’Estero, Università di Roma "La Sapienza".
  • 2016 & 2019: Two-time winner of a merit-based scholarship, Department of Mathematics, Università di Roma "La Sapienza".

Schools & Workshops

  • November 2024: Organizer of WAND (Workshop on Analysis of Network Dynamics), colocated with DISC 2024, Madrid, Spain.
  • October 2024: Invited talk at ADGA, colocated with DISC 2024, Madrid, Spain.
  • January 2024: Contributed talk at Mathematics for AI and Machine Learning, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.
  • October 2023: Organizer of WAND, colocated with DISC 2023, GSSI, L’Aquila, Italy.

Review Activity

  • 2025: SIROCCO.
  • 2024: FORC, STOC, Distributed Computing, SICOMP, SODA.
  • 2023: PODC, Distributed Computing, DISC, NeurIPS.
  • 2022: AAAI, PODC, SAND.
  • 2021: PODC, SEA.
  • 2020: OPODIS, ACM Transactions on Algorithms.