Personal

• Born on October 7, 1981
• Swiss Citizen
• Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English, French, and German

Academic Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • October 2010
  • Thesis title: "Exploiting self-organization for the autonomic management of distributed systems"
  • Advisor: Prof. Bèat Hirsbrunner


• BsC and MsC in Computer Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • November 2005
  • MsC Thesis title: "RoXanne Framework: x.core and x.click components"
  • Advisor: Prof. Andreas Meier
  • BsC Thesis title: "A.VRI.L - Speaker Verification Lab"
  • Advisor: Prof. Dijana Petrovska
  • BsC minor: Mathematics

Other Qualifications

• Qualifica Didattica, University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
  • May 2012
• Post-master diploma (DAS) in higher education and educational technology, University of Fribourg
  • February 2011
  • Diploma thesis: "Open Source in Higher Education: Case Study Computer Science at the University of Fribourg" (in collaboration with Fulvio Frapolli)

Research and Development Experience

• Collaborative Document
  Project made in collaboration with Banana.ch SA, supported by CTI/Innosuisse
  2020-2021
  

• BananaSync
  Project made in collaboration with Banana.ch SA, supported by CTI/Innosuisse
  2017-2019
  

• Poma (Poorman's Pipeline)
  Modular data processing framework written in C++, used by the DRIVE project at SUPSI
  2016-2017
  

• reCAMS Platform
  Development funded by the University of Fribourg
  2016-2017
  

• Skarabee: Toward self-organized ad-hoc microgrids
  Research funded by SUPSI and the Swiss Hasler Foundation, project n° 12063
  2012 - 2013
  

• Toward a comprehensive evaluation of self-organized bio-inspired peer-to-peer solutions
  Post-doc research funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (PBFRP2-134285), at the Telematics Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  2010 - 2011
  

• SmartGrid Project
  PhD Thesis, funded by the Swiss Hasler Foundation ("ManCom Initiative", project Nr. 2122).
  2006 (preparation) / 2007 - 2010
  

• Flexible Rules
  Development of the Flexible Rules framework (PhD Thesis of Fulvio Frapolli)
  2007 - 2010
  

Teaching Experience

• Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Manno, Switzerland
  Lecturer
  Since September 2011
  

• Swiss Federal Institute For Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET, IUFFP), Lugano, Switzerland
  Lecturer
  Since September 2016
  

• Other lecturing activities
  2015 - Lecture on digital formats at Corso di Giornalismo della Svizzera Italiana
  2017 - Lecture on processing for secondary school teachers (see this page on the DECS website)
  2013-now - Lecturer / Assistant at TEENformatiCAMP
  2014-2015 - Lecturer Master of Advanced Studies SUPSI in Library and Information Science
  

• South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China
  Lecturer
  September 2014 (2 weeks course on Operating Systems)
  

• Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Teaching Assistant
  October 2005 to October 2010
  

Professional Experience

• Department of Innovative Technologies, SUPSI, Switzerland
  Consultant for Digital Forensic Services
  2011 - 2015
  
  
• Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Java Developer
  May 2008 to December 2010
  • Design and development of a custom version of the AutoCAMS platform. AutoCAMS simulates the life support system of a space station; end-users are asked to control several environnmental parameters such as the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Subjects are evaluated under stress conditions, where system failures can be simulated.


• Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Linux System Administrator (25%)
  July 2006 to September 2006
  • Workstation and server configuration
  • Support tools development (shell scripts for task automation)


• FRIbourg roBOTics Competition (FRIBOT)
  Member of the organization committee
  2007 - 2009
  • Finance, logistics, and accounting
  • Software development(Java)


• Banana.ch, Lugano, Switzerland
  Consultant
  2004
  
  
• Document, Image and Voice Analysis Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Developer (C++/Bash/Python)
  2004
  • Development of a voice analysis evaluation platform
  • Development of tools enabling the training of a neural network with large sets of data, and subsequent evaluation of its classification capabilities.


• Crédit Suisse Financial Services, Bellinzona, Switzerland
  Internship
  Summer of 2001, 2002
  • Computer systems support (Windows), development of an intranet information portal (HTML/CSS).

Awards

• Best Paper of the Session "Advanced and Agent-based Control in Intelligent Energy Systems"
  • for the paper "Amos Brocco. "Fully Distributed Power Routing for an Ad hoc Nanogrid", presented at the 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Energy Systems (IWIES), Vienna, November 2013

• Prix Dimitri Chorafas 2011, University of Fribourg
  • for the PhD thesis "Exploiting self-organization for the autonomic management of distributed systems."

• Best doctoral thesis of the year 2010 in the areas of theoretical sciences, University of Fribourg
  • for the PhD thesis "Exploiting self-organization for the autonomic management of distributed systems."

• Best Paper Award
  • for the paper "Ye Huang, Nik Bessis, Amos Brocco, Stelios Sotiriadis, Michele Courant, Pierre Kuonen and Beat Hirsbrunner. Towards an integrated vision across inter-cooperative grid virtual organization. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, Springer, Jeju Island, Korea, December, 2009."

• Best Paper Award
  • for the paper "Ye Huang, Nik Bessis, Amos Brocco, Pierre Kuonen, Michele Courant, and Beat Hirsbrunner, Using Metadata Snapshots for Extending Ant-based Resource Dis- covery Service in Inter-cooperative Grid Communities, In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Evolving Internet, IEEE, Cannes/La Bocca, French Riviera, France, August, 2009."