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"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).

I am an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. I hold or held adjunct or visiting positions at RI.SE Sweden, Uppsala University, NXP Technologies, TU Graz, University of Southern California, University of Illinois at Chicago, and USI Lugano.
My research is about designing, building, and validating networked embedded software to power the operation of the Internet of Things!
I am the coordinator of international mobility for Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

Awards and Recognition

ACM SigMobile Research Highlight for the paper "Hummingbird: Energy Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites" appeared at the 26th ACM MOBICOM, 2020.
Best Paper Award and Best Pitch Video Award at the 8th ACM International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-neutral Sensing Systems (ENSSYS), 2020.
Best Paper Award at the 26th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), 2020.
Fokus Sweden 100 Most Productive Researchers in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Technology, 2019.
Hot Topics' Top 50 EMEA Cloud Climbers, by Hot Topics ltd. in collaboration with F5 Networks, 2018.
Best Paper Award at the 4th ACM International Workshop on Visible Light Communication Systems (VLCS - colocated with ACM MOBICOM), 2017.
ACM SigMobile Research Highlight for the paper "Reactive Control of Autonomous Drones" appeared at the 14th ACM MOBISYS, 2016.
Best Paper Award at the 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS), 2016.
Best Paper Award at the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (DRONET - colocated with ACM MOBISYS), 2016.
Google Faculty Award for research work about computing on energy-harvesting embedded devices, 2015. [In the press: @Corriere Innovazione]
Young Innovator Award given by MIT Technology Review Italia and RIE Forum, 2013. [In the press: @Corriere Innovazione, @Corriere GeniusLAB]
Postscapes' Internet of Things Top 100 Thinkers , also based on community voting, 2012 and 2011.
ERCIM Cor Baayen Award as a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics, 2011.
Best Paper Award at the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPSWEEK), 2011.
Best Paper Award at the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPSWEEK), 2009.
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award granted by the European Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence, 2009.
Best Demo Award at the 5th ACM International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (SENSYS), 2007.

Some of my works were also recognized as Best Paper Candidate at ACM EWSN 2020, ACM SENSYS 2019, ACM MOBISYS 2019, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2012, IEEE SRDS 2009,
and as Best Demo Runner-up at ACM SENSYS 2018.

What's New?

Keynote speaker at ACM MobiSys IoT Day 2022!
I will be a keynote speaker at the IoT Day of the ACM Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), to be held in Portland (US), June 25-July 1, 2022!

New IPSN papers!
Our papers "The Case for Approximate Intermittent Computing" and "RF Information Harvesting for Medium Access in Event-driven Batteryless Sensing" are accepted at the 21th ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPS-IoTWeek), to be held in Milano (Italy), May 4-6, 2022!

ACM SigMobile Research Highlight to our MOBICOM paper!
Our MOBICOM paper "Hummingbird: Energy Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites" receives the ACM SigMobile Research Highlight!

Scientific events I'm currently involved in:
ACM/IEEE CPS-IoT Week 2022 (General co-chair):
CPS-IoT Week brings together HSCC, ICCPS, IPSN, RTAS, and IoTDI.
ACM MOBICOM 2022 (PC member):
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.

Editorial board member:
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing: 2020 - present.
Elsevier Computer Networks: 2019 - present.
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN): 2016 - present.

Previously, I was also involved in ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award (Committee member - 2018), ACM MOBICOM (PC member - 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), ACM SENSYS (PC co-chair - 2017; PC member - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019), ACM/IEEE IPSN - part of CPSWEEK (PC co-chair - 2019; PC member - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021; poster/demo chair - 2013, 2021), ACM MOBISYS (PC co-chair - 2021; PC member - 2017), IEEE INFOCOM (PC member - 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020), IEEE ICDCS (PC member - 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020), 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, 2020, 2021; poster/demo chair - 2011, 2016), IEEE DCOSS (PC co-chair - 2015; PC member - 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020), 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):

"The Case for Approximate Intermittent Computing" with Fulvio Bambusi, Francesco Cerizzi, and Yamin Lee.
In Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPS-IoTWeek), Milano (Italy), May 2022.
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"ALFRED: Virtual Memory for Intermittent Computing" with Andrea Maioli.
In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Coimbra (Portugal), November 2021.
PDF, Teaser video
"Battery-less Zero-maintenance Embedded Sensing at the Mithraeum of Circus Maximus" with Mikhail Afanasov, Naveed Bhatti, Dennis Campagna, Giacomo Caslini, Fabio Massimo Centonze, Koustabh Dolui, Andrea Maioli, Erica Barone, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, and Junaid Haroon Siddiqui.
In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Yokohama (Japan), November 2020.
PDF, Teaser video
"Synchronous Transmissions in Low-Power Wireless: A Survey of Communication Protocols and Network Services" with Marco Zimmerling and Silvia Santini.
In ACM Computing Surveys. Volume 53, Issue 6. December 2020.
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"Hummingbird: Energy Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites" with Sujay Narayana, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, and T Venkata Prabhakar.
In Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), London (UK), September 2020. Best Paper Award. ACM SigMobile Research Highlight.
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"Intermittent Asynchronous Peripheral Operations" with Adriano Branco, Hamad Alizai, and Junaid Siddiqui.
In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), New York (NY, US), November 2019. Best Paper Candidate.
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"FlyZone: A Testbed for Experimenting with Aerial Drone Applications" with Mikhail Afanasov, Alessandro Djordjevic, and Feng Liu.
In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS), Seoul (South Korea), June 2019. Best Paper Candidate.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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Personal

"Dott. Paolo Mottola" scholarship
The Italian Association for Liver Research is offering a scholarship
to carry out research on liver tumors.