Personal

• Born on October 7, 1981
• Swiss Citizen
• Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English, French, and German

Academic Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • October 2010
  • Thesis title: "Exploiting self-organization for the autonomic management of distributed systems"
  • Advisor: Prof. Bèat Hirsbrunner


• BsC and MsC in Computer Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • November 2005
  • MsC Thesis title: "RoXanne Framework: x.core and x.click components"
  • Master thesis advisor: Prof. Andreas Meier
  • BsC minor: Mathematics

Other Qualifications

• Post-master diploma in higher education and educational technology, University of Fribourg
  • February 2011
  • Diploma thesis: "Open Source in Higher Education: Case Study Computer Science at the University of Fribourg" (in collaboration with Fulvio Frapolli)

Post-doc Experience

• Telematics Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  Post-doc Researcher
  December 2010 - August 2011
  • Research supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in the framework of the project entitled: "Toward a comprehensive evaluation of self-organized bio-inspired peer-to- peer solutions"
  • Fellowship nr. 134285
  • This project aims at establishing the benefits and drawbacks of bio-inspired solutions for distributed systems compared to traditional approaches. As part of the project, a framework to ease the development of distributed algorithms based on the ant colony paradigm is being developed.

Professional Experience

• Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Java Developer
  May 2008 to December 2010
  • Design and development of a custom version of the AutoCAMS platform. AutoCAMS simulates the life support system of a space station; end-users are asked to control several environnmental parameters such as the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Subjects are evaluated under stress conditions, where system failures can be simulated.


• Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Linux System Administrator (25%)
  July 2006 to September 2006
  • Workstation and server configuration
  • Support tools development (shell scripts for task automation)


• Document, Image and Voice Analysis Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Developer (C++/Bash/Python)
  2004
  • Development of a voice analysis evaluation platform
  • Development of tools enabling the training of a neural network with large sets of data, and subsequent evaluation of its classification capabilities.


• Crèdit Suisse Financial Services, Bellinzona, Switzerland
  Internship
  Summer of 2001, 2002
  • Computer systems support (Windows), development of an intranet information portal (HTML/CSS).

Teaching Experience

• Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Manno, Switzerland
  Lecturer
  From September 2011
  
  • Ambienti Operativi (Bachelor Course, 1st Semester)
    • Autumn 2011 (TP+PAP), Spring 2012 (TP)
    • 2-hours week (TP) + 2-hours week (PAP)
    • Introduction to operating environments and tools: Bash, Scripting, Make, Regular Expressions, Windows Powershell,...
    • Introduction to operating systems concepts: filesystem, memory management, operating systems' structure,...
  • Esercitazioni di Sistemi Operativi (Bachelor Course, 5th Semester)
    • Autumn 2011 (TP)
    • 2-hours every two weeks
    • Supervision of small projects related to operating systems: PAM authentication modules, Linux kernel modules, FUSE
  • Programmazione a eventi, parallela e concorrente (Bachelor Course, 4th Semester)
    • Spring 2012 (PAP)
    • 2-hours week
    • Concepts of event-driven, parallel and concurrent programming: synchronous and asynchronous event handling, processes, threads, signals, locking mechanisms, deadlock, starvation, classical IPC problems (producer-consumer, dining philosophers, sleeping barber)

• Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Teaching Assistant
  October 2005 to October 2010
  
  • Computer Architecture (Bachelor Course, 1st Semester)
    • Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006
    • Supervision of a project where undergraduate students design and implement a simplified computer (registers, bus synchronization,. . . ) using LogicWorks.
    • Responsible for a 1-hour/week lecture concerning the project and wrote support material for it
    • Some teaching to replace professor in charge
  • Operating Systems (Bachelor Course, 5th Semester)
    • Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009
    • Responsible for a 1-hour/week exercise session
    • Supervision of a project where students design and develop Linux kernel (C programming language) modules implementing simple FIFO devices
    • Responsible for a 1-hour/week lecture concerning the project and wrote support material for it
    • Graded weekly exercises as well as the project
  • Distributed Systems (Bachelor Course, 6th Semester)
    • Spring 2006, Spring 2007
    • Responsible for a 1-hour/week exercise session
    • Supervision of a project where students implement several distributed algorithms such as the Amoeba multicast protocol (Java programming language).
    • Responsible for a 1-hour/week lecture concerning the project and wrote support material for it
    • Graded weekly exercises as well as the project
  • Artificial Intelligence (Master Course)
    • Gave one lecture on Swarm Intelligence
  • Interdisciplinary Computing (Master Course)
    • Gave one lecture on Swarm Intelligence
  • Programming Paradigms (Bachelor Course)
    • Spring 2009
    • Responsible for exercise session (on Prolog, LISP and Erlang)