Curriculum Vitae

Positions

03/2025 - ongoing Postdoctoral researcher at Gran Sasso Science Institute (Italy), working with professors Alkida Balliu and Dennis Olivetti.
12/2023 - 02/2025: Postdoctoral researcher at Bocconi University (Italy), working in professor Luca Trevisan’s team.
12/2022 - 11/2023: Postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University (Finland), working in professor Jukka Suomela’s team.

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.

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.

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.

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".

February 2025: Invited participant to Research Workshop on Distributed Algorithms, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.
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.
March 2024: Invited participant to Research Workshop on Distributed Algorithms, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy.
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.
February 2023: Invited participant to Research Workshop on Distributed Algorithms, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.
June 2022: Contributed talk at the Third Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Here I summarize my activity as (sub)reviewer, keeping track of the amount of papers reviewed each year.

2025: SIROCCO (1), ICALP (2), PODC (3), SODA (1).
2024: FORC (1), STOC (1), SICOMP (1).
2023: PODC (1), Distributed Computing (1), DISC (1), NeurIPS (1).
2022: AAAI (2), PODC (1), SAND (1).
2021: PODC (1), SEA (1).
2020: OPODIS (1), ACM Transactions on Algorithms (1).