Valeria Cardellini
I am Associate Professor of Computer Science
at the
Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering
of the
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
My research interests are in the field of distributed computing systems and include Cloud systems and services, data stream processing, service-oriented systems, and general purpose computing on GPU.
I teach and have taught courses in distributed systems, Cloud computing, Big Data, computer architecture, and Web engineering.
You can find here my CV
and a list of publications from DBLP and
Google Scholar.
My profiles on ORCID and ResearcherID are also public.
I am a member of the DAMON research group.
Valeria Cardellini
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ingegneria Informatica
Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
Office: D1-17 Edificio Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Phone: +39-06-7259 7388
Fax: +39-06-7259 7460
Email: 
My current research interests focus on:
- Deployment and run-time adaptation of data stream applications in geo-distributed systems
- Resource provisioning and pricing in Cloud systems
- Computation offloading in mobile Cloud computing
- Self-adaptive service oriented systems
- General purpose computing on GPUs
My past research interests included:
I am or have been involved
in the following international and national projects:
- Cloud for Europe Tender, Realization of a research and development project (pre-commercial procurement) on "Cloud for Europe" - Tender number: 5843932,
Phase I (Solution design) and Phase II (Prototype development) for
Lot 1 "Federated Certified Service Brokerage, Lot 2 "Secure, Legislation-Aware Storage", and Lot 3 "Legislation Execution" (2016-2017).
- EU Horizon 2020 "Energy oriented Centre of Excellence for computing applications" (EoCoE) (2015-2018)
- COST Action IC1304 "Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)" (2013-2017)
- "SYPCIT: System for prevention and combat identity theft",
funded by EC DG-HOME (2014-2016)
- PRIN "D-ASAP: Dependable Adaptable Software Architectures for Pervasive Computing" (2009-2011)
- PON "CRESCO: Computation Center for Research in Complex Systems" (2005-2008)
- FIRB "WEB MINDS: Wide-scalE, Broadband, Middleware for Network Distributed Services" (2002-2006)
- FIRB "Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems: Techniques, Methodologies, and Tools - perf" (2002-2006)
- CNR "SP1 Internet networks: efficiency, integrity and security" (2002-2004)
- CNR-Agenzia 2000 "Computation Grids and applications" (2002-2003)
- PRIN "High Quality Web Systems" (2002-2003)
- PRIN "MOSAICO: Methodologies and Tools for the Design of High Performance Systems for Distributed Applications" (1998-1999)
Journal Guest Editor
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Parallel Computing, Elsevier, Special Issue on "Data stream processing in HPC systems: new frameworks and architectures for high-frequency streaming"
(see cfp)
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Future Generation Computing Systems, Elsevier, Special Issue on "New landscapes of the data stream processing in the era of fog computing"
(see cfp)
TPC/Workshop/Tutorial Chair
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TPC co-chair of 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018)
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Co-chair of the Second International Workshop on Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing (Auto-DaSP 2018),
in conjuction with Euro-Par 2018
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Co-chair of International Workshop on Autonomic Systems for Big Data Analytics
(ASBDA 2017),
in conjuction with ICACC 2017 and part of FAS*
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Co-chair of International Workshop on Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing
(Auto-DaSP 2017),
in conjuction with Euro-Par 2017
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Co-chair of International Workshop on Autonomous Control for Performance and Reliability Trade-offs in Internet of Services (ACPROSS 2017), in conjuction with ICPE 2017
- Tutorial chair of 8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2017)
- Co-chair of 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet DElivery and Applications (AAA-IDEA 2009),
in conjuction with QShine 2009
Technical Program Committee Member
ScalCom 2018
Int'l Workshop on Container-based Systems for Big Data, Distributed and Parallel computing (CBDP 2018)
MobiSPC 2018,
MobiSPC 2017,
MobiSPC 2016,
MobiSPC 2015,
and MobiSPC 2014,
Mobile Cloud Computing track
Special Session on Internet of Things and HPC: Devices, Networks, and Applications (IoT-HPC 2018), along with HPCS 2018
- CN 2018, special session on TechSQWeb
- ICFEC 2018
- PDP 2018, special session on Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications
- InfQ 2017 - New Frontiers in Quantitative Methods in Informatics,
InfQ 2016,
InfQ 2014
- MASCOTS 2017,
MASCOTS 2016,
MASCOTS 2015,
MASCOTS 2014,
MASCOTS 2013
- Int'l Workshop on Autonomic Management of Large-scale Container-based Systems (AMLCS 2017)
- FiCloud 2017, QoS-aware IoT and Cloud Services Composition track
- 12th Int'l Workshop on Feedback Computing (FC 2017)
- Selected Areas in Communications (SAC) Symposium at ICC 2015
- Int'l Workshop on Cloud Convergence: challenges for future infrastructures and services (WCC 2013)
- 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
- WWW 2007, Performance and Scalability track
- SIUMI 2006 and SIUMI 2005
Journal Reviewer
I contribute to the distributed system and computer systems performance evaluation communities by reviewing papers for journals (among which ACM TOMPSEC, ACM TOSEM, IEEE TMC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TSC, IEEE TSE, IEEE TWC, Computer Networks, Journal of Systems and Software).
Professional Associations
PhD Graduates
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Davide Barbieri (co-supervised with Salvatore Filippone), PhD June 2015, "SIMPL: A Pattern Language for Writing Efficient Kernels on GPU architectures".
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Stefanno Iannucci,
PhD June 2015, "MOSES: a QoS-driven Autonomic Framework for Service Oriented Systems".
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Alessandro Fanfarillo (co-supervised with Salvatore Filippone), PhD March 2016, "Parallel Programming Techniques for Heterogeneous Exascale Computing Platforms".
Current PhD Students
I have the pleasure to work with the following PhD students:
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Ambra Abdullahi (co-supervised with Salvatore Filippone), expected 2019
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Matteo Nardelli, expected 2018
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Steve Petruzza, expected 2018
In the current academic year (2017/18) I teach the following regular classes:
and short courses:
In the past academic years I taught the regular classes:
- Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing (MSc in Computer Engineering)
AY 2011/12,
AY 2012/13,
AY 2013/14,
AY 2014/15,
AY 2015/16, AY 2016/17
- Systems and Architectures for Big Data (MSc in Computer Engineering)
AY 2016/17
- Computer Skills, 6 ECTS (BSc in Business and Economics)
AY 2015/16
- Computer Skills - module A, 3 ECTS (BSc in Business and Economics)
AY 2014/15
- Distributed Systems (MSc in Computer Engineering)
AY 2008/09,
AY 2009/10,
AY 2010/11
- Web Engineering (MSc in Computer Engineering)
AY 2006/07 and AY 2007/08, from AY 2001/02 to AY 2005/06 as teaching assistant
- Advanced Computer Architectures (BSc in Computer Engineering)
from AY 2005/06 to AY 2007/08
- Computer Architectures (BSc in Computer Engineering online)
AY 2008/09
- Computer Architectures (BSc in Computer Engineering)
from AY 2002/03 to AY 2004/05
- Computer Architectures (BSc in Telecommunications Engineering)
AY 2000/01 - University of Rome "La Sapienza"
- Computer Architectures 2 (BSc in Computer Engineering)
AY 2000/01
I also taught the following short courses:
http://www.ce.uniroma2.it/~valeria
Last updated on March 9, 2018.