Danilo Ardagna
Scholar

Danilo Ardagna

Google Scholar ID: 2S6m-oYAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano
Big Data InfrastructuresCloud computingResource Managementoptimizationgame theory
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
2,014
 
H-index
22
 
i10-index
61
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
52
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Contact
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Best Paper Award at MASCOTS 2024 for 'd-MALIBOO: a Bayesian Optimization framework for dealing with Discrete Variables'.
  • Listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists (October 2023, November 2022) based on standardized citation metrics.
  • Google Education Award, May 2022.
  • TETRAMAX Best Project Award, October 2021, for the ANDREAS project on power and cost management of deep learning workloads.
  • Best Paper Award at ICA3PP 2016 for work on Hadoop application performance modeling.
  • Received Top CompSci University Azure Adoption grants in October 2016, September 2017, and July 2018.
  • Served as General Co-Chair or PC Chair for multiple international workshops and conferences, including Fast Continuum (2025, 2023), SCADL (2022–2020), IFIP WG 7.3 Performance (2021, 2020), and QUDOS (2020, 2019).
Background
  • Research focuses on the design, prototyping, and evaluation of resource management algorithms for large-scale distributed systems supporting AI, big data, and web applications.
  • Aims to develop optimization algorithms for maximizing Quality of Service and managing resources in fog/edge/cloud infrastructures and HPC systems.
  • Recent work includes AI applications (coordinated the AI-SPRINT project), reinforcement learning, and performance analysis and optimization of large-scale systems and software.
  • Contributed to major projects such as MODAClouds, DICE, EUBRA-BIGSEA, ATMOSPHERE, and GAME-IT (focused on energy efficiency in virtualized infrastructures).
  • PhD research addressed cost-oriented design and capacity planning of distributed IT architectures.