Alumni in Computer Science and Control Engineering

This page lists the PhD graduates in Computer Science and Control Engineering from the 4th PhD cycle (started in the academic year 1986/87) to the 27th PhD cycle (started in the academic year 2011/12). Information regarding the PhD thesis, the graduation year and the current position (when available) are provided.

Last update: February 2020.

Cycle 27th

• Marco Abundo
  Current position: Senior Manager at Deloitte Digital, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: QoS-Aware Resource Allocation and Provisioning in Cloud Computing Systems
  Graduation year: 2016

• Francesco Bianchi
  Graduation year: 2018

• Luca Boncagni
  Thesis: The Control Framework MARTe for Runaway Control on FTU and Educational Robots
  Graduation year: 2017

• Simone Filice
  Current position: Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Thesis: Learning Relations between Short Texts
  Graduation year: 2016

• Manuel Fiorelli
  Current position: Fixed-term Researcher at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Semantic Integration at Large: Perspectives, Challenges and Identified Solutions
  Graduation year: 2015

• Federico Santaroni
  Current position: Co-Founder & CDO at Comehome!, Italy
  Thesis: Reliability in Public Transport Networks
  Graduation year: 2015

Cycle 26th

• Davide Barbieri
  Current position: Co-founder of GhostShark Games, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: SIMPL: A Pattern Language for Writing Efficient Kernels on GPU architectures
  Graduation year: 2015

• Valerio Di Valerio
  Current position: Staff Research Engineer at Collins Aerospace, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: QoS-Aware Resource Allocation in Distributed Systems
  Graduation year: 2014

• Fabio Marturana
  Current position: ICT Specialist, senior officer in the Carabinieri Corps, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Device Classification in Digital Forensics Triage (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2014

• Manuel Mastrofini
  Current position: Managing partner at LAST Horizon, adjunct professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Software Development Process Enhancement: A Framework for Decision-Making Support (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2013

• Marco Querini
  Thesis: A New System for Securizing Documents Through Their Entire Life Cycle
  Graduation year: 2014

Cycle 25th

• Paolo Annesi
  Current position: Research Fellow at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Semantics in (a Metric) Space: Compositional Distributional Models for Complex Natural Language Structures (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2013

• Lorenzo Dell'Arciprete
  Current position: Software development engineer at Expedia Group, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Exploiting Structured Data for Machine Learning: Enhancements in Expressive Power and Computational Complexity (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2013

• Stefano Iannucci
  Current position: Assistant Professor (tenure track) at Roma Tre University, Italy
  Thesis: MOSES: a QoS-driven Autonomic Framework for Service Oriented Systems
  Graduation year: 2015

• Luca Silvestri
  Current position: Senior Research Engineer at Collins Aerospace, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Service Level Provisioning in Cloud Systems: Models, Algorithms and Architectures (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2014

Cycle 24th

• Danilo Croce
  Current position: Assistant Professor (tenure track) at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Structured Learning for Natural Language Semantic Processing
  Graduation year: 2012

• Noemi Scarpato
  Current position: Assistant Professor (fixed-term) at Università Telematica San Raffaele Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Knowledge-based Visualization Systems (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2012

• Andrea Turbati
  Current position: Research Fellow at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: CODA: Computer-aided Ontology Development Architecture

• Gianluca Varano
  Thesis: Dynamic input allocation (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2012

• Riccardo Vitelli
  Current position: Expert at Banca d’Italia, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Real-time control solutions for plasma control problems in Tokamak experiments (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2012

Cycle 23rd

• Andrea Bastoni
  Current position: Software Architect at SYSGO AG, Germany
  Thesis: Towards the integration of theory and practice in multiprocessor real-time scheduling (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2011

• Rosamaria Berté
  Current position: Informatics Officer at Corte dei Conti, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Tecniche di Triage Applicate alla Digital Forensics (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2012

• Cristina Giannone
  Current position: ML & NLP Engineer at Almawave, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Semantic Relation Extraction between Lexical Theories and Applications
  Graduation year: 2011

• Antonio Grillo
  Current position: Digital Area Managing Director at Mashfrog Group, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Trasferring Identities to Mobile Devices (TIMiD)
  Graduation year: 2011

• Alessandro Lentini
  Current position: CTO and CO-founder at TrustMyPhone, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: TUBA: Total User Behavioural Authentication
  Graduation year: 2011

• Michele Martone
  Current position: Researcher at Leibniz Rechenzentrum, Germany
  Thesis: A Quad-Tree Based Sparse BLAS Implementation for Shared Memory Parallel Computers (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2011

• Vittorio Ottaviani
  Current position: Responsible for Social Network and Web Applications at Mashfrog S.p.A, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Open BAR - A New Approach to Mobile Backup And Restore (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2011

• Paolo Palana
  Current position: Associate at I.T. Systems S.r.l, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Un’Architettura Altamente Scalabile Basata su FPGA per Attacchi Crittografici di Tipo Time-memory Tradeoff
  Graduation year: 2012

• Yahya Sadeghi
  Current position: Lecturer at the University of Isfehan, Iran
  Thesis: Real-Time reconstruction of plasma equilibrium in FTU Tokamak and its validation on MARTE framework
  Graduation year: 2010

Cycle 22nd

• Emiliano Betti
  Current position: Chief Technology Officer at Epigenesys srl, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Satisfying hard real-time constraints using COTS components (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2010

• Paolo Bocciarelli
  Current position: Research Associate at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Graduation year: 2010

• Diego De Cao
  Current position: Data Scientist at NCR Corporation, Roma, Italy
  Graduation year: 2011

• Francesca Fallucchi
  Current position: Researcher at Guglielmo Marconi University, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Exploiting Transitivity in Probabilistic Models for Ontology Learning (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2010

• Fulvio Forni
  Current position: Lecturer at University of Cambridge, UK
  Thesis: Analysis of Hybrid Systems and Design of Hybrid Controllers (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2010

• Emanuele Galli
  Current position: Senior software engineer at INAF-IAPS, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Agent Based Modeling and Simulation for critical and interdependent systems (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2010

• Enrico Randazzo
  Current position: Software Engineer at Banca d’Italia
  Thesis: A Model-Based Approach to Performance and Reliability Prediction (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2010

Cycle 21st

• Gianluca Grilli
  Current position: Senior Research Scientist at Amazon Web Services, Seattle, USA
  Thesis: Data dissemination in vehicular ad-hoc networks (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2010

• Fabio Dellutri
  Current position: CEO and co-founder of Miowelfare
  Thesis: Profiling Mobile Identities (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2009

• Salvatore Alessandro Sarcià
  Current position: Lieutenant Colonel at Italian Army - Internal Control Branch, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: An approach to improving parametric estimation models in the case of violation of assumptions based upon risk analysis (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2009

• Andrea Sindico
  Current position: Project Manager at Elettronica S.p.A., Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Model Driven Development of Context Aware Software Systems (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2009

Cycle 20th

• Davide Falessi
  Current position: Associate Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: A Toolbox for software architecture design (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2008

• Alessandro Potini
  Current position: Engineer at ELV, Colleferro, Italy
  Thesis: Trajectory tracking in switched systems: an internal model principle approach. The elliptical billiard system as a benchmark for theory (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2008

• Valerio Senni
  Current position: Principal Engineer at Collins Aerospace , Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Transformation Techniques for Constraint Logic Programs with Applications to Protocol Verification (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2008

• Giuseppe Viola
  Thesis: Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems via Passivity-Based and Geometric Techniques (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2008

Cycle 19th

• Claudio Argento
  Thesis: Complex networks: analysis and control (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2007

• Paolo Campegiani
  Current position: Head of Strategy and Innovation at Bit4id, Napoli, Italy
  Graduation year: 2012

• Daniele Gianni
  Current position: Business Analyst at European Banking Authority, France
  Graduation year: 2007

• Simona Onori
  Current position: Assistant Professor at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
  Graduation year: 2007

• Luigi Pangione
  Current position: Mechatronics Engineer at RACE - UKAEA, Culham, UK
  Thesis: Studio e sperimentazione di software real-time e di controlli non lineari per il sistema di controllo del Frascati Tokamak Upgrade
  Graduation year: 2007

• Marco Pennacchiotti
  Current position: Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, Munich, Germany
  Thesis: Recognizing Textual Entailment: Methods and Resources
  Graduation year: 2007

• Fabio Pedimonte
  Current position: Middle school teacher, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Banco prova per la valutazione di dispositivi di assistenza ventricolare (VAD): progettazione e prove sperimentali
  Graduation year: 2007

• Antonino Sabetta
  Current position: Principal Research Scientist at SAP Research, Sophia-Antipolis, France
  Thesis: Automating the analysis of performance and reliability of reconfigurable component-based systems: a model-driven approach
  Graduation year: 2007

Cycle 18th

• Alfredo Buttari
  Current position: CNRS Researcher at Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Toulouse, France
  Thesis: Software Tools for Sparse Linear Algerba Computations (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2006

• Claudio Cosentino

• Roberto Gioiosa
  Current position: Research Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA
  Thesis: High Performance Computing Clusters
  Graduation year: 2006

• Federico Morabito
  Thesis: Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems: Architectures and Algorithms (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2007

• Armando Stellato
  Current position: Assistant Professor (tenure track) at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Alignment and Mediation of Distributed Information Sources in the Semantic Web
  Graduation year: 2006

• Maurizio Adriano Strangio
  Current position: IT Specialist at Government Administration, Italy
  Thesis: Two-party Cryptographic Protocols for Authentication and Key Agreement with Applications to Mobile Computing
  Graduation year: 2006

Cycle 17th

• Mauro Andreolini
  Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
  Thesis: High Performance Web Server Systems: Design, Testing and Evaluation (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2005

• Abdelnabi (Abdulnabi) A. Zeiad
  Current position: Researcher at Libya Academy of Graduate Studies, Libya
  Thesis: Building a body of knowledge from families of software empirical studies: from statistical analysis to cluster-impact approach for manipulating experimental data using fuzzy sets (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2005

Cycle 16th

• Fabrizio Grandoni
  Current position: Professor at IDSIA, University of Lugano, Switzerland
  Thesis: Exact Algorithms for Hard Graph Problems (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2004

• Riccardo Lancellotti
  Current position: Associate Professor at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
  Thesis: Cooperative Distributed Systems for Efficient Content Delivery and Adaptation of Web Resources
  Graduation year: 2004

Cycle 15th

• Alessandro Moschitti
  Current position: Associate Professor at University of Trento, Italy
  Thesis: Natural Language Processing and Automated Text Categorization: A Study on the Reciprocal Beneficial Interactions
  Graduation year: 2003

• Marco Emilio Poleggi
  Thesis: Cooperation Policies and Techniques for Global Caching in Clustered Web Server Systems (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2003

Cycle 14th

• Emiliano Casalicchio
  Current position: Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  Thesis: Cluster-based Web systems: paradigms and dispatching algorithms (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2002

• Sergio Galeani
  Current position: Associate Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Two degrees of freedom control for systems with constraints
  Graduation year: 2002

• Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
  Current position: Associate Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: L’estrazione della terminologia come strumento per la modellazione di domini conoscitivi
  Graduation year: 2002

Cycle 13th

• Novella Bartolini
  Current position: Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  Thesis: Quality of service analysis and modelling in wireless cellular networks for multimedia services
  Graduation year: 2001

• Valeria Cardellini
  Current position: Associate Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Scalable Web-server systems (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2001

• Michele Vindigni
  Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Brescia, Italy
  Thesis: Comunicazione tra agenti linguistici intelligenti: progettazione di un modello e realizzazione di una architettura di supporto
  Graduation year: 2001

Cycle 12th

• Antonio Morlupi
  Current position: Principal Economist-Statistician at European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
  Thesis: Sistemi di calcolo distribuiti in presenza di mobilità fisica e logica: analisi e progettazione
  Graduation year: 2000

• Michele Satriani
  Thesis: Agent-based software per simulazione discreta con animazione grafica
  Graduation year: 2000

• Luca Zaccarian
  Current position: Full Professor at University of Trento, Italy and Researcher at LAAS-CRNS, France
  Thesis: Uniting local and global controllers for anti-windup synthesis (pdf)
  Graduation year: 2000

Cycle 11th

• Federico Gentili
  Current position: Chief Innovation and ICT Governance Officer at doBank S.p.A., Roma, Italy
  Graduation year: 1999

• Michele Cermele
  Current position: CEO at Jupiter Asset Management, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Modeling and Supporting High Performance Computations on Distributed Systems
  Graduation year: 1999

• Francesco Martinelli
  Current position: Associate Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Modeling and Control of Discrete event Dynamic Systems (pdf)
  Graduation year: 1999

Cycle 10th

• Fabio Del Frate
  Current position: Full Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Applicazione delle reti neurali a dati di Telerilevamento
  Graduation year: 1997

• Paolo Donzelli
  Current position: Head of the Italian Prime Minister Office for strategic plan and e-government, Roma, Italy
  Graduation year: 1997

• Francesco Lo Presti
  Current position: Full Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Metodi Analitici per il Supporto della Qualità del Servizio in Reti Integrate
  Graduation year: 1997

• Laura Menini
  Current position: Full Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Control of sampled-data systems with continuous-time requirements
  Graduation year: 1997

Cycle 7th

• Cesare Antonelli Current position: Coordinator of the unit for “Monitoring ICT activities and software development”, Office for Informatics and Telematics, Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Ingegneria delle prestazioni di sistemi client-server
  Graduation year: 1995

• Giuseppe Calavaro
  Current position: IT Economics Executive Consultant at IBM, Roma, Italy
  Graduation year: 1995

• Vittorio Cortellessa
  Current position: Full Professor at University of L’Aquila, Italy
  Thesis: Ottimizzazione delle Prestazioni di Simulatori Concorrenti Basati su Time Warp
  Graduation year: 1995

Cycle 6th

• Sanda Harabagiu
  Current position: Professor at University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

• Raffaela Mirandola
  Current position: Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  Thesis: Hierarchical models for performance evaluation of computer and communication systems
  Graduation year: 1994

• Enrico Pietropoli
  Current position: Professor of Physic and Mathematics at Liceo “Eugenio Montale”, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Applicazioni della Strategia di Tupling per la Trasformazione di Programmi Funzionali

Cycle 5th

• Roberto Basili
  Current position: Full Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Thesis: Un modello formale per l’apprendimento di concetti linguistici da analisi di corpora estesi di testi
  Graduation year: 1993

• Francesco Marinuzzi
  Current position: Managing Director M&A, Roma, Italy
  Thesis: Il Ridimensionamento dei Sistemi Informatici verso i Sistemi Utente-Servente (pdf)

Cycle 4th

• Michele Colajanni
  Current position: Full Professor at University of Bologna, Italy
  Thesis: Algoritmi Parallelizzanti per Problemi Markoviani di Grandi Dimensioni