"The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague,
but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise"
E. W. Dijkstra - from the Humble Programmer, 1972.
(Read also another interesting article about abstraction).
SICS Swedish ICT. My research is about designing, building, and validating
networked embedded software to power the operation of cyberphysical systems, the "Internet of Things", wireless sensor networks, and drone sensor networks! I try not just to talk and to write about these systems, but also to build and deploy them!
Awards and Recognition
- Listed amongst Hot Topics' Top 50 EMEA Cloud Climbers, in collaboration with F5 Networks, 2018.
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 4th ACM Int. Workshop on Visible Light Communication Systems (VLCS - colocated with ACM MOBICOM), 2017.
- Recipient of the ACM SigMobile Research Highlight for the paper "Reactive Control of Autonomous Drones" appeared at the 14th ACM MOBISYS, 2016.
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 14th ACM Int. Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS), 2016.
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2nd ACM Int. Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use (DRONET - colocated with ACM MOBISYS), 2016.
- Recipient of the Google Faculty Award for research work about computing on energy-harvesting embedded devices, 2015. [In the press: @Corriere Innovazione]
- Recipient of the Young Innovator Award given by MIT Technology Review Italia and RIE Forum, 2013. [In the press: @Corriere Innovazione, @Corriere GeniusLAB]
- Nominated as Best Paper Runner-up at the 11th ACM/IEEE Int. Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPSWEEK), 2012.
- Listed amongst Postscapes' Internet of Things Top 100 Thinkers, also based on community voting, 2012 and 2011.
- Recipient of the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award as a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics, 2011.
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 10th ACM/IEEE Int. Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPSWEEK), 2011.
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 8th ACM/IEEE Int. Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPSWEEK), 2009.
- Recipient of the European Best Ph.D. Thesis Award granted by the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence, 2009.
- Nominated as Best Paper Candidate at the 28th IEEE Int. Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2009.
- Recipient of the Best Demo Award at the 5th ACM Int. Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (SENSYS), 2007.
See also press coverage during the Universal Exposition in Milan, held in 2015: @Expo News: "Internet of Things and Smart Agriculture", @Expo Magazine: "Ten Innovators Talk About Visions of 2050", and @Expo Magazine: "More Team-play for Drones!"
What's New?
ACM MOBISYS paper!
Our paper on the FlyZone aerial drone testbed was accepted at
the
ACM
International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
International Conference (MOBISYS)!
Scientific events I'm currently involved in:
ACM IPSN 2019 (PC co-chair):
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.
TheWebConf 2019 (PC member):
The Web Conference (formerly WWW).
ACM MOBICOM 2019 (PC member):
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.
ACM SENSYS 2019 (PC member):
ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.
IEEE DCOSS 2019 (PC member):
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems.
ACM ENSSYS 2019 (PC member):
ACM International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-neutral Sensing Systems (ENSSYS).
Editorial board member:
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN): 2016 - present.
Previously, I was also involved in ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award (Committee member - 2018), ACM MOBISYS (PC member - 2017), ACM MOBICOM (PC member - 2019), ACM SENSYS (PC co-chair - 2017; PC member - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018), ACM/IEEE IPSN - part of CPSWEEK (PC member - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017; poster/demo chair - 2013), IEEE INFOCOM (PC member - 2016, 2017, 2018), IEEE ICDCS (PC member - 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018), IEEE RTSS (PC member - 2013, 2014), IEEE Percom (PC member - 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), ACM EWSN (PC co-chair - 2017; PC member - 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016; poster/demo chair - 2011, 2016), IEEE DCOSS (PC co-chair - 2015; PC member - 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017), IEEE SRDS (PC member - 2010, 2014, 2015), NASA/ESA AHS (PC member - 2015, 2017), and SESENA (PC co-chair - 2011; PC member - 2010, 2012), among the others.
Recent Selected Publications
These papers are representative of my current and past investigation (more under publications):
- "FlyZone: A Testbed for Experimenting with Aerial Drone
Applications" with Mikhail Afanasov, Alessandro Djordjevic,
and Feng Liu.
(To appear) in Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS), Seoul (South Korea), June 2019.
PDF - "Fundamental Concepts of Reactive Control for Autonomous
Drones"
with Kamin Whitehouse.
In Communications of the ACM. Volume 61, Issue 10. October 2018.
PDF - "HarvOS: Efficient Code Instrumentation for
Transiently-powered Embedded Devices" with Naveed
Bhatti.
In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPSWEEK), Pittsburgh (PA, US), April 2017.
PDF - "Adaptive Real-time Communication for Wireless
Cyber-physical Systems" with Marco Zimmerling, Pratyush Kumar,
Federico Ferrari, and Lothar Thiele.
In ACM Transactions on Cyber-physical Systems. Volume 1, Issue 2. February 2017.
PDF - "Reactive Control of Autonomous Drones" with Endri
Bregu, Nicola Casamassima, Daniel Cantoni, and Kamin
Whitehouse.
In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS), Singapore, June 2016. Best Paper Award. ACM SigMobile Research Highlight Winner.
PDF - "Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer in Sensor Network
Applications: Concepts and Experiences" with Naveed Bhatti,
Hamad Alizai, and Affan Syed.
In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Volume 12, Issue 3. August 2016.
PDF - "View Consistency in Wireless Sensor Networks"
with Arshad Jhumka.
In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Volume 12, Issue 3. August 2016.
PDF - "Directional Transmissions and Receptions for
High-throughput Bulk Forwarding in Wireless Sensor Networks"
with Ambuj Varshney, Mats Carlsson, and Thiemo Voigt.
In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Seoul (South Korea), November 2015.
PDF - "Team-level Programming of Drone Sensor Networks" with
Mattia Moretta, Kamin Whitehouse, and Carlo Ghezzi.
In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Memphis (TN, US), November 2014.
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