Valeria Cardellini

I am full professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering of Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy.
My research interests are in the field of distributed software systems and services, including Cloud and Edge systems and services, resource management and self-adaptation, quality assurance.
I am currently Associate Editor of IEEE TPDS and Elsevier JPDC.
I teach and have taught courses in distributed systems, Cloud computing, Big Data, computer architecture, and Web engineering.
I am a member of the DAMON research group.
You can find here my CV and a list of publications from DBLP and Google Scholar.
My profiles on ORCID and Web of Science are public.

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Research Interests

My current research interests focus on:

• Runtime management and self-adaptation of workflow applications (microservices, stream processing)
• Serverless computing in the Edge-Cloud Continuum

My past research interests included:

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

Research Projects

I am or have been involved in the following international and national projects in the last 10 years:

• EU EuroHPC dealii-X: an Exascale Framework for Digital Twins of the Human Body (2024-2026)
• EU EuroHPC EoCoE-III: Energy oriented Centre of Excellence for computing applications (2024-2026)
• Spoke 1 "Future HPC & Big Data" of the Italian Research Center on High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing (ICSC) funded by MUR Missione 4 Componente 2 Investimento 1.4: Potenziamento strutture di ricerca e creazione di "campioni nazionali" di R&S (M4C2-19) - Next Generation EU (NGEU) (2022-2025)
• Earth In The Cloud, POR FESR Lazio 2014-2020 (Azione 1.2.1) (2021-2023)
• 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)

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Service

Editorial Board

• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2020-present
• Associate Editor of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, 2021-present

Journal Guest Editor

• Information Systems, Elservier, Special Issue on "Advances in Distributed Data Processing and Event-Based Systems" (submission deadline: August 31, 2025) [cfp]
• ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Special Issue on "Artificial Intelligence for Adaptive and Autonomous Cloud/Edge Computing Systems" (submission deadline: November 5, 2024) [cfp]
• Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Special Issue on "Scalable Compute Continuum" (submission deadline: November 30, 2023) [editorial], [special issue]
• Big Data Research, Elsevier, Special Issue on "Special Issue on Big Data in Industrial and Commercial Applications" (submission deadline: March 1, 2020) [editorial] [papers doi: 10.1016/j.bdr.2021.100194, 10.1016/j.bdr.2020.100172, 10.1016/j.bdr.2021.100192, 10.1016/j.bdr.2021.100184, 10.1016/j.bdr.2020.100182, 10.1016/j.bdr.2021.100195, 10.1016/j.bdr.2021.100189, 10.1016/j.bdr.2020.100181]
• Parallel Computing, Elsevier, Special Issue on "Data stream processing in HPC systems: new frameworks and architectures for high-frequency streaming" (submission deadline: January 9, 2019) [editorial], [special issue]
• Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Special Issue on "New landscapes of the data stream processing in the era of fog computing" (submission deadline: November 3, 2017) [editorial], [special issue]

General Chair

• ICPE 2023: 14th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, co-chair with Marco Vieira

TPC Chair

• DEBS 2025: 19th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems, Research track, co-chair with Paris Carbone
• CLOSER 2025: 15th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
• DEBS 2022: 16th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems, Industry and Applications track, co-chair with Yingjun Wu
• ICFC 2020: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing, co-chair with Song Guo
• UCC 2018: 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, co-chair with Luiz Bittencourt

Other roles in conference organizing committees

• ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance 2024: Workshops co-Chair
• HPDC 2024: PhD Symposium co-Chair
• UCC 2023 and BDCAT 2023: Workshops co-Chair
• CCGRID 2022: Proceedings co-Chair
• ICFEC 2022: Proceedings co-Chair
• ICPE 2017: Tutorial Chair

Workshop (co-)Chair

• AI4AS 2025: 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous computing Systems, co-located with ACSOS 2025
• WSCC 2025: 3rd International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum, co-located with Euro-Par 2025
• DML-ICC 2024: 4th Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum, co-located with UCC 2024
• AI4AS 2024: 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous computing Systems, co-located with ACSOS 2024
• WSCC 2024: 2nd International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum, co-located with Euro-Par 2024
• WOCC 2024: 2nd International Workshop on Converged Computing on Edge, Cloud, and HPC, co-located with ISC 2024
• DML-ICC 2023: 3rd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum, co-located with UCC 2023
• AI4AS 2023: International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous computing Systems, co-located with ACSOS 2023
• WSCC 2023: International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum, co-located with Euro-Par 2023
• SPS 2022: 4th International Workshop on Self-Protecting Systems, co-located with ACSOS 2022
• Auto-DaSP 2021: 4th International Workshop on Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing, co-located with ICPE 2021
• Auto-DaSP 2019: 3rd International Workshop on Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing, co-located with Euro-Par 2019
• Auto-DaSP 2018: 2nd International Workshop on Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing, co-located with Euro-Par 2018
• ASBDA 2017: International Workshop on Autonomic Systems for Big Data Analytics, co-located with ICCAC 2017
• Auto-DaSP 2017: International Workshop on Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing, co-located with Euro-Par 2017
• ACPROSS 2017: International Workshop on Autonomous Control for Performance and Reliability Trade-offs in Internet of Services, co-located with ICPE 2017
• AAA-IDEA 2009: 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet DElivery and Applications, co-located with QShine 2009

Technical Program Committee Member

My recent TPC service includes:

• OPODIS 2025, OPODIS 2024
• SC 2025 Software Systems and Cloud Computing, SC 2024, SC 2023
• Performance 2025
• MASCOTS 2025, MASCOTS 2024, MASCOTS 2023, MASCOTS 2022, MASCOTS 2021, MASCOTS 2020
• IC2E 2025
• ACSOS 2025, ACSOS 2024, ACSOS 2023, ACSOS 2022, ACSOS 2021
• Euro-Par 2025 Scheduling, Resource Management, Cloud, Edge Computing, and Workflows track, Euro-Par 2024, Euro-Par 2023, Euro-Par 2022
• HPDC 2025
• ICDCS 2025 Big Data, Models, and Systems track, ICDCS 2022
• Intel4EC 2025, colocated with IPDPS 2025
• CCGRID 2025 ML for Systems and Systems for ML track, CCGRID 2024
• ICFEC 2025, ICFEC 2024, ICFEC 2023, ICFEC 2022, ICFEC 2021
• ICPE 2025, ICPE 2024, ICPE 2022, ICPE 2021, ICPE 2020
• UCC 2024, UCC 2023, UCC 2022, UCC 2021, UCC 2020
• EduHPC-24, EduHPC-23, EduHPC-22, EduHPC-21
• SBAC-PAD 2024
• ACM GoodIT 2024
• IEEE MetaCom 2024, IEEE MetaCom 2023
• The Web Conference 2023, The Web Conference 2020
• MSN 2022, MSN 2021
• DEBS 2022

Journal Reviewer

I contribute to the distributed system and computer systems performance evaluation communities by reviewing papers for high-quality journals (including ACM TAAS, ACM TOSEM, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE/ACM TON, IEEE TMC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TSC, IEEE TWC, Computer Networks, Journal of Systems and Software).

Professional Associations

• Member of ACM, IEEE, and IEEE Computer Society.
• Faculty sponsor of ACM Student Chapter at Tor Vergata University of Rome

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PhD Students

I am in the PhD board in Computer Science, Control and GeoInformation at Tor Vergata University of Rome.

PhD Graduates

• Davide Barbieri (co-supervised with Salvatore Filippone), PhD June 2015, "SIMPL: A Pattern Language for Writing Efficient Kernels on GPU architectures".
• Stefano Iannucci, PhD June 2015, "MOSES: a QoS-driven Autonomic Framework for Service Oriented Systems".
• Alessandro Fanfarillo (co-supervised with Salvatore Filippone), PhD March 2016, "Parallel Programming Techniques for Heterogeneous Exascale Computing Platforms".
• Matteo Nardelli, PhD April 2018, "QoS-aware Deployment and Adaptation of Data Stream Processing Applications in Geo-distributed Environments".
• Steve Petruzza, PhD April 2018, "Combining Scalability, Portability, and Usability in Big Data Analytics for HPC".
• Gabriele Russo Russo (co-supervised with Francesco Lo Presti), PhD May 2021, "Model-based Auto-Scaling of Distributed Data Stream Processing Applications".
• Fabiana Rossi (co-supervised with Francesco Lo Presti), PhD April 2022, "Elastic Deployment of Cloud Applications".
• Giacomo Belocchi (co-supervised with Giuseppe Bianchi), PhD June 2023, "Empowering End-host Networking with eBPF and Programmable SmartNICs".

Current PhD Students

• Cecilia Calavaro, expected 2027.

Prospective PhD Students

Prospective PhD students interested in my research areas can contact me.
The selection for a position in the Computer Science, Control and GeoInformation PhD Program at Tor Vergata University of Rome is through an annual open competition which involves an entrance examination and the call is generally issued in Spring.

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Teaching

In the current academic year (2024/25) I teach the following regular classes:

• Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing, 9 ECTS (MSc in Computer Engineering)
• Systems and Architectures for Big Data, 6 ECTS (MSc in Computer Engineering)
• Algorithms, Data and Security, 6 ECTS (BA in Global Governance)

and short course:

• Big Data, Hadoop & Spark (Master Universitario II livello CESMA)

In the last 10 academic years I taught the regular classes:

• Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing (MSc in Computer Engineering)
  from AY 2011/12 to AY 2023/24
• Systems and Architectures for Big Data (MSc in Computer Engineering)
  from AY 2016/17 to AY 2023/24
• Algorithms, Data and Security (BA in Global Governance)
  from AY 2018/19 to AY 2023/24
• Computer Architectures, 3 out of 9 ECTS (BSc in Computer Engineering)
  AY 2018/19 and AY 2019/20
  
• Computer Skills (BSc in Business and Economics)
  AY 2014/15 (module A) and AY 2015/16

and short courses:

• Big Data (Master Universitario I livello in Data Science)
  from AY 2014/15 to AY 2022/23
• Big Data, Hadoop & Spark (Master Universitario II livello CESMA)
  from AY 2014/15 to AY 2023/24

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