Valeria Cardellini

Welcome to my web pages. I am an assistant professor in Computer Engineering in the Computer Science, Systems and Production Department at the University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy.
My main research interests are in distributed systems and Web-based infrastructures and services.
I teach and have taught courses in distributed systems, computer architecture and Web engineering.
You can find my CV and a list of publications from DBLP and Google Scholar.

• October 2006-present: assistant professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Roma "Tor Vergata".
• May 2001-September 2006: postdoctoral fellow at the Computer Science, Systems and Production Department, University of Roma "Tor Vergata".
• June 2001: Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Control Engineering at the University of Roma "Tor Vergata".
• May 1999-November 1999: visiting researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
• July 1997: Laurea (MSc equivalent) degree in Computer Engineering with summa cum laude, University of Roma "Tor Vergata".

• Self-adaptive service oriented systems
• Resource provisioning in Cloud systems
• General purpose computing on GPUs
• Scalable Web systems
• Distributed systems for ubiquitous Web access

• PRIN project "D-ASAP: Dependable Adaptable Software Architectures for Pervasive Computing" (2009-2011)
• CRESCO (2005-2008)
• FIRB project "WEB MINDS: Wide-scalE, Broadband, Middleware for Network Distributed Services" (2002-2006)
• FIRB project perf (2002-2006)
• CNR project "SP1 Internet networks: efficiency, integrity and security" (2002-2004)
• CNR-Agenzia 2000 project "Computation Grids and applications" (2002-2003)
• PRIN project "High Quality Web Systems" (2002-2003)
• PRIN project "MOSAICO: Methodologies and Tools for the Design of High Performance Systems for Distributed Applications" (1998-1999)

I contribute to the distributed system and computer systems performance evaluation communities by reviewing papers for journals and conferences (among which ACM TOIT, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TSC, Computer Networks, Journal of Systems and Software, Performance Evaluation).

• 5th Int'l Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2012)
• Int'l Workshop on Clouds for Business and Business for Clouds (C4BB4C 2012)
• Special Session on Distributed Networking and Computing (DNC 2011) at NAEC 2011
• 16th Int'l World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007) (Performance and Scalability Track)
• 2nd Int'l Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet (SIUMI 2006)
• 1st Int'l Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet (SIUMI 2005)

• Workshop Co-Chair (with Anirban Mahanti) for AAA-IDEA 2009
• Organizing Committe member for Performance 2002 (Roma, Italy, Sept. 2002)

• Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing, graduate course

• Distributed Systems, graduate course
  (AY 2008/09, AY 2009/10, AY 2010/11)
• Web Engineering, graduate course
  (AY 2006/07 and AY 2007/08, from AY 2001/02 to AY 2005/06 as teaching assistant)
• Advanced Computer Architectures, undergraduate course
  (from AY 2005/06 to AY 2007/08)
• Computer Architectures, online undergraduate course
  (AY 2008/09)
• Computer Architectures, undergraduate course
  (from AY 2002/03 to AY 2004/05)
• Computer Architectures, undergraduate course
  (AY 2000/01 - University of Roma "La Sapienza")
• Computer Architectures 2, undergraduate course
  (AY 2000/01)