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: PhD student in Computer Science at Inria & Université Côte D’Azur in the COATI joint project-team
  • Thesis Project: On the Collective Behaviors of Bio-inspired Distributed Systems (manuscript)
  • Supervisors: Emanuele Natale and Nicolas Nisse
  • Visits:
    • September 2022: visiting PhD student at Aalto University, working with professor Jukka Suomela.
    • May 2022: visiting PhD student at Inria Rennes, working with Inria researcher George Giakkoupis
    • December 2021: visiting PhD student at Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, working with professor Andrea Clementi
    • June 2021: visiting PhD student at Gran Sasso Science Isntititute (L’Aquila, Italy), working with professor Pierluigi Crescenzi
    • October 2019 - January 2020: visiting PhD student at Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, working with professor 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 for teaching (partly extracurricular) on pedagogy, psychology, and education
• 2016, from March to July: Erasmus+ program at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
• 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
• 2008-2013: Diploma P.N.I. Liceo Scientifico “Augusto Righi”, Rome

Students

Bachelor thesis’ supervision

• February 2023 - May 2023
  • Joona Jarre, Computer Science student (Aalto University): thesis on primality testing and integer factoring
  • Peik Etzel, Computer Science student (Aalto University): thesis on coordinated robot motion planning
  • Linus Jern, Computer Science student (Aalto University): thesis on population protocols for the consensus problem

Teaching

• February - April 2022: teaching practicum (56 hours) for the database course (PL/SQL) at Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Université Côte d’Azur

Awards, Grants, Scolarships, etc.

• 2020: winner of Borsa di perfezionamento all’estero, from Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
• 2016 and 2019: two-time winner of a collaboration scholarship by merit, Department of Mathematics, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

Schools & Workshops

• January 2024: Contributed Talk at Workshop “Mathematics for AI and Machine Learning”, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.
• October 2023: organizer of WAND (Workshop on Analysis of Network Dynamics) at DISC 2023, GSSI, L’Aquila, Italy.
• February 2023: Workshop in Distributed Graph Algorithms, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
• June 2022: Third Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics (seminar), Bologna, Italy.
• June 2022: Highlights of Algorithms (HALG 2022) (poster), London, UK.
• March 2021: Le Monde des Mathématiques Industrielles (MOMI 2021) (poster), Virtual event.
• July 2020: UCA Deep Learning School 2020, Virtual event.
• August 2019: 20th Max Planck Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science on Games, Brains, and Distributed Computing, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Reviews

• 2024
  • FORC
  • STOC
  • Distributed Computing
• 2023
  • PODC
  • Distributed Computing
  • DISC
  • NeurIPS
• 2022
  • AAAI
  • PODC
  • SAND
• 2021
  • PODC
  • SEA
• 2020
  • OPODIS
  • ACM Transaction on Algorithms