team

I supervise PhDs in the (broad) area of networks and systems. Most of my projects are focussed on real-world problems. Please drop me a mail if you’re interested in brainstorming topics.

Current Members

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Filippo Carloni (2025-), NIC acceleration

PhD Students

• Andrea Motta (2024-), smartNICs design (co-advised with Davide Zoni)
• Farbod Shahinfar (2023-), network stacks design
• Salvator Galea (2017-), hardware-accelerate packet-processing systems (co-advised with Andrew W. Moore)

Graduate Students

• Open positions available

Past Members

PhD alumni

• Jonatan Langlet (2020-2024)
  • PhD thesis title: “Telemetry for Next-Generation Networks”
  • First job after graduation: Postdoctoral researcher at the NSLab (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
• Alireza Sanaee (2020-2024)
  • PhD thesis title: “Low Latency Software Data-Plane Design for Cloud Data Center End-hosts”
  • First job after graduation: Linux kernel engineer at Huawei Research Cambridge

Research associates/assistants

• Sebastiano Miano (2020-2023)
• Christos Nikolaou (2019-2020)

Graduate students

• Francesco Tranquillo (thesis defended April 2025)
• Marco Molè (thesis defended April 2025)
• Stefano Bordeianu (thesis defended April 2025)
• Pasquale Scalise (thesis defended April 2025)

Research visitors

• Guorui Xie (2023-2024), Tsinghua University, China
• Giulio Sidoretti (2022), University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Michal Orsàk (2019), Brno University Technology, Czech Republic
• Xiangrui Yang (2019-2020), National University Defense Technology, China