Published several works on Multi-objective Design Space Exploration, Low-power techniques for Embedded Systems, and Network-on-Chip architectures; co-author of the Noxim project, currently used by a vast community of researchers working in the area of on-chip communication systems and employed as an experimental platform in more than 400 scientific papers published in refereed ACM and IEEE international conferences and journals; served as General Chair of the International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc) in 2017; TPC member for several ACM/IEEE conferences including UPIOT, BigDataSE, CEESD, IGSC, DAC LBR, VLSI Design, ScalCom, SOCC, FUTURE COMPUTING, MES, PEC, SITIS; Chair and Organizer for Computing Frontiers, ReCoSoC, ICM, CODES-ISSS; member of the editorial board of IEEE Access.
Research Experience
Associate Professor at the Electric, Electronics, and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Catania; taught Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence courses at the Faculty of Psychology of Kore University (Enna, Italy); lectured at the University of Southampton (UK).
Background
Currently an Associate Professor at the Electric, Electronics, and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Catania (DIEEI). Research interests include Multi-objective Design Space Exploration, Low-power techniques for Embedded Systems, and Network-on-Chip architectures.
Miscellany
Personal projects include Ultraviolet (a timechain accurate Lightning Network simulator), Bitcoffee (Bitcoin internals implementation in Java: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (sec256k1), SHA256, UTXO), GottaLight (Bitcoin Testing Environment for the c-lightning implementation of Lightning Network), Noxim (Network-on-Chip simulator written in SystemC), Nanoxim (A simulator of nanotech-oriented networks for researching topology agnostic communication mechanisms), Epic Explorer (A framework for the design space exploration of a parametrized architecture based on a VLIW core), Consciousnet (Web-content based artificial intelligence of linguistic interaction), Webinos (Secure Web Operating System Application Delivery Environment).