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

PhD Students

• Farbod Shahinfar (2023-), network stacks design
• Salvator Galea (2017-), hardware-accelerate packet-processing systems

Graduate Students

• Francesco Tranquillo (2024-): enabling P4 offloads in OpenNIC
• Marco Molè (2024-): enabling XDP support on OpenNIC driver
• Pasquale Scalise (2024-): L7 processing in the Linux kernel
• Stefano Bordeianu(2023-): performance characterization of io_uring

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 (July 2020, 3 years)
• Christos Nikolaou (June 2019, 1 year)

Research visitors

• Guorui Xie (October 2023, 1 year), Tsinghua University, China
• Giulio Sidoretti (July 2022, 5 months), University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Michal Orsàk (March 2019, 4 months), Brno University Technology, Czech Republic
• Xiangrui Yang (September 2019, 1 year), National University Defense Technology, China