UNIBO
ASSOCIATED INVESTIGATOR

I received a PhD in Computer Science from University College London in May 2007 and a Laurea in Electronic Engineering (roughly comparable to a British MSci in Electronic Engineering) from the University of Bologna in December 2002. I prepared my Final Year Dissertation from June to December 2002 at the Department of Computer Science at University College London, working as research assistant as part of the XMIDDLE project.

After receiving my Master degree, I spent a period in industry working as software engineer at E-Tree and at Kion.  During summer 2003 I also did an internship at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), the National French Research Institute in Computer Science and Automation, at Rocquencourt, near Paris, in the Arles group headed by Dr. Valerie Issarny.

Then, in October 2003 I went back to London where I started my PhD at University College London under the supervision of Prof. Cecilia Mascolo. In October 2005 I became a Research Fellow involved in the CREAM project. I held this position until August 2007.

From September 2007 to August 2008 I was an ISTS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, where I was a member of the Sensor Networks Group, headed by Prof. Andrew T. Campbell working in the MetroSense Project. Then from September 2008 to October 2009 I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

From November 2009 to August 2011 I was a SICSA Lecturer at the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

I moved to the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham as Senior Lecturer in September 2011. I was promoted to Reader in March 2014.

I joined the Department of Geography at University College London as Reader in Data Science in June 2015. I was promoted to Full Professor in October 2019. I moved to the UCL Department of Computer Science in September 2020 as Professor of Computer Science.

Since October 2019, I also hold a position as Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna.