Gianni Antichi

Politecnico di Milano (IT) and Queen Mary University of London (UK)

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Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

Room 18, Building 20

Via Giuseppe Ponzio, 34

Milano 20133, IT

I am an Associate Professor at Dipartimento Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science of Queen Mary University of London.

My research interests cover a broad spectrum of topics in both networks and systems. Specifically, end-host network stacks, programmable hardware and network monitoring. Details of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar profile or my publications page.

My research has been awarded with the best paper at ACM SIGCOMM 2017, the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) New Investigator, the Facebook Networking Systems Research 2020, the ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Student Research competition with Sebastiano Miano, the best poster at ACM CoNEXT 2021 and the best student paper at ACM EuroSys 2025.

I am always looking for motivated students. If you have interests similar to mine, feel free to reach out!

news

Jun 25, 2025 Demystifying Performance of eBPF Network Applications got accepted at ACM CoNEXT! The work was led by Farbod Shahinfar.
Jun 23, 2025 Performance Implications at the Intersection of AF_XDP and Programmable NICs got accepted at ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on eBPF and Kernel Extensions! The work was led by Marco Molè.
Jun 16, 2025 Software Prefetching for eBPF Programs got accepted to the poster session at ACM SIGCOMM! The work was led by Farbod Shahinfar.
Jun 16, 2025 Better QUIC implementations with Nesquic got accepted to the poster session at ACM SIGCOMM! The work was led by Laurin Brandner.
Jun 16, 2025 Kairo - Incremental View Maintenance for Scalable Virtual Switch Caching got accepted to the poster session at ACM SIGCOMM! The work was led by Annus Zulfiqar.

selected publications

  1. ACM CoNEXT
    Demystifying Performance of eBPF Network Applications
    Farbod Shahinfar, Sebastiano Miano, Aurojit Panda, and Gianni Antichi
    In ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2025
  2. ACM ASPLOS
    Aqua: Network-Accelerated Memory Offloading for LLMs in Scale-Up GPU Domains
    Abhishek Vijaya Kumar, Gianni Antichi, and Rachee Singh
    In ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2025
  3. ACM ASPLOS
    Gigaflow: Pipeline-Aware Sub-Traversal Caching for Modern SmartNICs
    Annus Zulfiqar, Ali Imran, Venkat Kunaparaju, Ben Pfaff, Gianni Antichi, and Muhammad Shahbaz
    In ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2025
  4. ACM EuroSys Best Student Paper!
    Enabling Virtual Priority in Data Center Congestion Control
    Zhaochen Zhang, Feiyang Xue, Keqiang He, Zhimeng Yin, Gianni Antichi, Jiaqi Gao, Yizhi Wang, Rui Ning, Haixin Nan, Xu Zhang, Peirui Cao, Xiaoliang Wang, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen, and Chen Tian
    In ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2025
  5. USENIX NSDI
    State-Compute Replication: Parallelizing High-Speed Stateful Packet Processing
    Qiongwen Xu, Sebastiano Miano, Xiangyu Gao, Tao Wang, Adithya Murugadass, Songyuan Zhang, Anirudh Sivaraman, Gianni Antichi, and Srinivas Narayana
    In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2025
  6. USENIX NSDI
    Enabling Silent Telemetry Data Transmission with InvisiFlow
    Yinda Zhang, Liangcheng Yu, Gianni Antichi, Ran Ben Basat, and Vincent Liu
    In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2025
  7. ACM CoNEXT
    F3: Fast and Flexible Network Telemetry with an FPGA coprocessor
    Weiqi Feng, Jiaqi Gao, Xiaoqi Chen, Gianni Antichi, Ran Ben Basat, Michael Mingchao Shao, Ying Zhang, and Minlan Yu
    In ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2024
  8. ACM CoNEXT
    NetGSR: Towards Efficient and Reliable Network Monitoring with Generative Super Resolution
    Chuanhao Sun, Kai Xu, Gianni Antichi, and Mahesh Marina
    In ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2024
  9. ACM SIGMETRICS
    Lightweight Acquisition and Ranging of Flows in the Data Plane
    Andrea Monterubbiano, Jonatan Langlet, Stefan Walzer, Gianni Antichi, Pedro Reviriego Vasallo, and Salvatore Pontarelli
    In ACM Special Interest Group for the Computer Performance Evaluation (SIGMETRICS), 2024
  10. ACM SIGCOMM
    Direct Telemetry Access
    Jonatan Langlet, Ran Ben-Basat, Gabriele Oliaro, Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu, and Gianni Antichi
    In ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), 2023
  11. ACM ASPLOS
    Domain Specific Run Time Optimization for Software Data Planes
    Sebastiano Miano, Alireza Sanaee, Fulvio Risso, Gábor Rétvári, and Gianni Antichi
    In ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2022
  12. USENIX NSDI
    Re-architecting Traffic Analysis with Neural Network Interface Cards
    Giuseppe Siracusano, Salvator Galea, Davide Sanvito, Mohammad Malekzadeh, Gianni Antichi, Paolo Costa, Hamed Haddadi, and Roberto Bifulco
    In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2022
  13. USENIX NSDI
    Isolation Mechanisms for High-Speed Packet-Processing Pipelines
    Tao Wang, Xiangrui Yang, Gianni Antichi, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Aurojit Panda
    In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2022
  14. USENIX NSDI
    Backdraft: a Lossless Virtual Switch that Prevents the Slow Receiver Problem
    Alireza Sanaee, Farbod Shahinfar, Gianni Antichi, and Brent E. Stephens
    In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2022
  15. ACM SIGCOMM
    Revisiting the Open vSwitch Dataplane Ten Years Later
    William Tu, Yi-Hung Wei, Gianni Antichi, and Ben Pfaff
    In ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), 2021
  16. ACM CoNEXT
    Detecting Routing Loops in the Data Plane
    Jan Kucera, Ran Ben Basat, Mário Kuka, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu, and Michael Mitzenmacher
    In ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2020
  17. ACM SIGCOMM
    PINT: Probabilistic In-band Network Telemetry
    Ran Ben Basat, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Yuliang Li, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu, and Michael Mitzenmacher
    In ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), 2020
  18. ACM CoNEXT
    PURR: a Primitive for Reconfigurable Fast ReRoute
    Marco Chiesa, Roshan Sedar, Gianni Antichi, Michael Borokhovich, Andrzej Kamisinski, Georgios Nikolaidis, and Stefan Schmid
    In ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments And Technologies (CoNEXT), 2019
  19. ACM IMC
    An Empirical Study of the Cost of DNS-over-HTTPS
    Timm Böttger, Félix Cuadrado, Gianni Antichi, Eder Leão Fernandes, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, and Steve Uhlig
    In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2019
  20. ACM SIGCOMM
    Understanding PCIe Performance for End Host Networking
    Rolf Neugebauer, Gianni Antichi, José Fernando Zazo, Yury Audzevich, Sergio López-Buedo, and Andrew W. Moore
    In ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), 2018
  21. ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper!
    Re-architecting Datacenter Networks and Stacks for Low Latency and High Performance
    Mark Handley, Costin Raiciu, Alexandru Agache, Andrei Voinescu, Andrew W. Moore, Gianni Antichi, and Marcin Wójcik
    In ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), 2017