Research Fellow

• Member of the InfraScience laboratory
  • Participation to the activities of the EU-funded project OpenAIRE NEXUS.
  • Data analysis of the OpenAIRE Research Graph and other scholarly data sources such as ORCID, CORDIS, CrossRef.
  • Comparison and evaluation of different scholarly data sources and the use-cases for analysis they are capable to support.
  • Quality and completeness assessment of the information contained in the OpenAIRE Research Graph.
  • Research on novel metrics and indicators to measure the openness of science and evaluate the impact of scientific research.

Research Associate

• Member of the Scholarly Knowledge Modelling, Mining and sense Making (SKM³) team
  • Research focusing on geopolitical and socioeconomic impact of academic research; analysis of scholarly data in the broader context.
  • Analysis of trends and dynamics within conference venues. Analysis of authors affiliations and their distribution on the research landscape.
  • Analysis of the evolution and forecast of technology diffusion across different disciplines and research areas.
  • Creation and maintenance of the Computer Science Ontology (automatically generated from scientific literature) and automatic classification of papers.
  • Re-engineerization of the SKM³ infrastructure for scholarly knowledge analytics: moving from a single dataset hosted on a relational database to a scalable aggregation and analytics infrastructure availing of the Big Data Cluster (Hadoop-based) owned by the university.
  • Exploration of the major scholarly datasets and sources of scholarly data such as CrossRef, Microsoft Academic, Dimensions, Scopus, SciGraph, SemanticScholar and DBLP.
  • Management of the SKM³ Azure infrastructure for a collaboration with Microsoft Academics.
• Technical support and cunsultancy for the project CityLabs. Consultancies delivered to several local SMEs such as Medietas, UK postings and Design Buildings Ltd.

Research Assistant

• OpenAIRE2020 task leader: data flows and dynamics monitoring services
• EAGLE technical manager: aggregation workflows and data quality
• Collaboration in the projects, OpenAIRE2020, OpenAIREplus, HOPE, EFG and iCORDI
• Realisation of service-oriented architectures (SOA) for data integration infrastructures
• Development of D-NET software toolkit
• Design of distributed systems for collaborative research environments
• Data modelling, data management, curation and publishing

Research Assistant

• Optimisation and performance evaluation of 802.11 MAC protocols
• Collaboration within the framework of the EU FP7 research project FLAVIA
• Research in Social Networks and predictions based on social media

Research Assistant

• Research in dynamic updating of Java software
• Realisation of a case study for Javeleon, a Dynamic Software Updating System developed by a research group in the institute

Ph.D. in Information Engineering

Thesis: “Data flow quality monitoring in data infrastructures”
Supervisors: Dr. Paolo Manghi (ISTI-CNR), Prof. Marco Avvenuti (University of Pisa)

M.Sc. in Telematic Engineering

Thesis: “Control Theoretic Optimization of 802.11 WLANs: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation”
Supervisors: Prof. Albert Banchs Roca (IMDEA Networks & UC3M), Prof. Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks)

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering

Thesis: “Stepwise Evolution of Java Applications using Dynamic Updates”
Supervisor: Prof. Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen (Syddansk Universitet), Prof. Marco Avvenuti (University of Pisa)

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering

Thesis: “Design and realisation of a software module for PLC/PAC remote controlling”
Supervisor: Prof. Aldo Balestrino (University of Pisa)