• Born in Lucca (ITALY) on 1971

• 1994: "Laurea" Degree in Computer Science (with honors) from the University of Pisa - ITALY
• 1995: Admission to the PhD School in Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy
• 1996: Summer School on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Siena, Italy
• 1997: National School for PhD Students in Computer Science, Bertinoro, Italy
• 2000: PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy.

• Italian: native speaking
• English: writing, speaking
• Portoguese: writing, speaking (basic)

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• 1994: Research grants from the University of Pisa and from the University of Rome. Topics: Evaluation of a diagnosis algorithm for regular structures
• Nov. 1995 - Oct. 1999: PhD studies at the Computer Science Dept., University of Pisa, Italy. Topics: system-level diagnosis
• Nov. 1999 - Jan 2000: Research grant from the "Consorzio Pisa Ricerche", Pisa, Italy. Topics: Diagnosis algorithms for hypercubes and Cube-Connected-Cycles
• Jan - Dec 2000: Research asssociate, Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione del CNR (IEI - CNR), Pisa, Italy
• Jan - June 2001: Visiting researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA. The visit was partially funded by CNR under the grant 203.15.11
• July - August 2001: Research grant from the "Consorzio Pisa Ricerche", Pisa, Italy. Topics: Efficient algorithms for range assignment in wireless ad hoc networks
• September 2001 - November 2009: Researcher, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR (formerly Istituto di Matematica Computazionale), Pisa, Italy
• May - December 2003: Visiting scientist at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• From November 2009: Senior Researcher, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR, Pisa, Italy
• From July 2013: Visiting Research Scientist, MIT Senseable City Lab, USA

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• 1995-2000: Lecturer, National Navy Academy, Livorno, Italy
• 2000: Part-time lecturer, Computer Science Dept., University of Pisa, Italy
• 2000: Invited member of the committee of a master degree dissertation, Universidade Federal do Paranà , Curitiba, Brasil
• 2005-2008: Lecturer, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy
• 2006-2009: Part-time lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy
• Spring 2022: Co-Instructor, course "Senseable City: Data and Analytics", Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, US

• 2001: CNR grant 203.15.11
• 2003: CNR-NATO grant 215.34
• 2004: The paper "The Node Distribution of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", by C.Bettstetter, G.Resta and P.Santi, appeared on IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 257-269, July-September 2003, received the 2004 ITG outstanding paper award ("ITG-Literaturpreis")
• 2005: CNR Short-Term Mobility grant

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• 2007: Triangular Inequality Revisited (or, from Theory to Practice), Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2007
• 2007: Triangular Inequality Revisited (or, from Theory to Practice), LIASIT, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Dec. 2007
• 2008: Evaluating the Effects of Strategic Node Behavior on Opportunistic Routing Performance, PHYSCOMNET workshop, Berlin, Germany, April 2008
• 2008: P2P Algorithms and Wireless Networks: Application Scenarios and Technological Challenges, GTTI Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy, June 2008
• 2008: Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, GkmM Summer School on Monitoring and Coordination Across Networked Autonomous Entities, Ebernburg, Germay, August 2008
• 2009: The Fundamental Limits of Broadcasting in Wireless Multihop Networks, IMT PhD School, Lucca, Italy, July 2009
• 2009: The Fundamental Limits of Broadcasting in Wireless Mobile Networks, Dagstuhl Seminar on Algorithmic Methods for Distributed Cooperative Systems, Dagstuhl, Germany, Sept. 2009
• 2009: The Mathematics of Mobility, Workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Large Networks (WLAN), Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2009
• 2010: The Fundamental Limits of Broadcasting in Wireless Multihop Networks, Univ. of Elche, Spain, July 2010
• 2010: The Fundamental Limits of Broadcasting in Wireless Multihop Networks, InfQ Workshop, Pisa, Italy, July 2010
• 2010: Mobility Models and Social Networks, Lipari Summer School on Mobile Computing and Communications, Lipari, Italy, July 2010
• 2010: Social-Aware Forwarding in Pocket-Switched Networks: of Theory and Practice, Dept. of Computer Science, UCLA, Nov 2010
• 2011: The Mathematics of Mobility, ICST Conference on Theory and Practice of Algorithms in Computer Science, Rome, Italy, April 2011
• 2012: Mobility Models for Next Generation Wireless Networks and Services, CUSO Winter School, Ovronnaz, Switzerland, January 2012
• 2013: Panelist on Traffic Efficiency, Climate CoLab Crowds and Climate Conference, MIT, Cambridge, US, Nov. 2013
• 2014: Keynote Talk, SynCity Summer School, Technical Univ. of Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Sept 2014.
• 2014: Panelist, The Road Ahead: Forum on Future Cities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, Nov. 2014.
• 2015: Keynote Talk, Exploring the Future: Trends and Technologies on Energy, Climate Change and Development for Chile, Santiago, Chile, April 2015.
• 2015: Panelist, 10 Visions for Mobility in 2020, TU Automotive Conference, Detroit, US, June 2015.
• 2015: Invited Talk, Pervasive Urban Sensing: Paving the way to Sustainable Mobility, School of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, October 2015.
• 2015: Panelist, Future Models of Sustainable Living: Cities, ABIS Annual Colloquim, Milan, Italy, October 2015.
• 2015: Keynote Talk, Powering the Car in the Smart City through Sensors and Big Data, TU Automotive Europe Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, November 2015.
• 2015: Invited Talk, Urban Mobility through the Eyes of Big Data, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, US, November 2015.
• 2016: Invited Talk, Automated Cars and the Future of Transport, The Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin, Ireland, April 2016.
• 2016: Invited Talk, Future Urban Mobility Research at MIT Senseable City Lab, We4U: Sharing ENEL's World Challenges, Rome, Italy, April 2016.
• 2016: Invited Lesson, Il drone e la bici, muoversi a livelli: eviteremo gli incidenti? (in Italian), TIM Lezioni sul Progresso, Milan, Italy, May 2016.
• 2016: Invited Talk, Shared Mobility, Strategic Innovation Symposium: the Intelligent Enterprise, Harvard University, Cambrdidge, MA, USA, September 2016.
• 2017: Invited Talk, Technological innovation and the new corporate mobility, Fleet Manager Academy, Milan, Italy, March 2017.
• 2017: Panelist, Next generation mobility, German American conference, Boston, MA, USA, April 2017.
• 2017: Invited Talk, Future Urban Mobility Research at MIT Senseable City Lab, We4U: Sharing ENEL's World Challenges, Rome, Italy, September 2017.
• 2017: Firestarter Talk, Future Urban Mobility and Equity, Forum on Future Cities, Dubai, UAE, November 2017.
• 2018: Panelist, Panel on Shared Mobility, UBS Future Car Conference, New York, NY, USA, May 2018.
• 2018: Invited Talk, “Future Urban Mobility”, ULI Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, October 2018.
• 2019: Invited Talk, “Shared and Autonomous Mobility in Future Cities”, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, January 2019.
• 2019: Panelist, “Smart Mobility: Which Opportunities for the SECON Community”, IEEE Secon, Boston, MA, June 2019.
• 2020: Panelist, “Society, job, and cities”, Digital Ethics Forum, October 2020.
• 2022: Invited Talk, “Urban Mobility: using mathematical models to predict where and how ofter we go”, International Focus Workshop on Physics and Collective Dynamics of Future Mobility, March 2022.
• 2022: Invited Talk, “Urban Mobility: using mathematical models to predict where and how ofter we go”, USF Seminar Series, Hong Kong University, March 2022.
• 2022: Invited Talk, “Using mathematical models to predict urban mobility patterns”, Space Syntax Lab Seminars, University College London, April 2022.
• 2022: Invited Talk, “Senseable Cities for Sustainable Urban Development”, CEE Seminar Series, Tufts University, October 2022.
• 2022: Invited Talk, “Sustainable Mobility: a Wider Perspective”, ERVA Visioning Event, Sustainable Trasnportation Networks, November 2022.
• 2022: Invited Talk, “Proximate: Effect of Co-location on Collaboration Networks”, CoreNet Global New England Visioning Session, Boston, November 2022.
• 2024: Invited Talk, “AI in Architecture and Urban Planning”, Ordine degli Architetti, Milan, October 2024.
• 2025: Invited Talk, “Fostering Sustainability and Livability of Cities: Is the 15-min City Concept the Right Approach?”, World Bank, Washington DC, Febrauary 2025.

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• Living Shenzhen, presented at the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, 2019.

• Executive Committee Member, University Transportation Center on Connected and Sustainable Trasnportion, 2023.
• Guest Editor, Environment and Planning B, Special Issue on "Integrated and Human Observations for Smart Cities", 2021
• Associate Editor, Frontiers Sustainable Cities, 2019-now
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2008-2012
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2010-2014
• Associate Editor, Computer Networks (Elsevier), 2012-2018.
• Associate Editor, Computer Science Reviews (Elsevier), 2012-2018.
• Guest Editor of the Journal of Urban Technology, Special Issue on “Smart City Development as an ICT-Driven Approach to Urban Sustainability”, projected publication date March 2020.
• Guest Editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Vehicular Communications, July 2011.
• Guest Editor of the European Transactions on Telecommunications (Wiley), Special Issue on Self-Organization in Mobile Networking, publication March/April 2005.
• Tutorial on Topology Control in Ad Hoc Networks presented at ACM Mobicom 03 and at ACM MobiHoc 04
• Tutorial on Modeling and Mitigating Interference in Wireless Networks presented at ACM Mobicom 2008 and at European Wireless 2009
• Tutorial on Mobility Models and Social Networks presented at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Budapest, Hungary, 2011
• Consultant on Data Fusion Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks, Le Gemme SpA, Italy
• Member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the ICT PhD School, Univ. of Modena, Italy
• Member of the committee for admission to Computer Science PhD School, Univ. of Pisa, Italy, 2020 and 2022
• Member of the evaluation committee of the Ed Bacon Student Design Competition, Philadelphia Center for Architecture, US
• Member of the board of international experts for the LAKA Accelerator competition, 2017.
• Reviewer of the following European Projects: Wisebed, Ginseng, Spitfire
• Project proposals evaluator for European CHIST-ERA funding program.
• Project proposals evaluator for National Funding programs of the following countries: Cyprus, Hong Kong, Belgium
• TPC member of:
  • 2004:
    the 3rd Med-Hoc-Net Workshop, the 1st IEEE Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON);
  • 2005:
    the 2nd IEEE Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), the 2nd ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET);
  • 2006:
    the 3rd IEEE Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), the 3nd ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), the First Int. Conference on Integrated Internet Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (InterSense), the 7th ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Sypmosium, the 2nd ACM Workshop on Dependability Issues in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks (DIWANS), the IFIP 5th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net);
  • 2007:
    IFIP Networking 2007, the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Systems (MASS), the 4th IEEE Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), , the 8th ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), the 1st International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks, the International Workshop on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks, Globecom 2007, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Personalized Networks, 1st IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVec) , the 4th ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), ACM Mobicom Student Poster Competition Committee, the International Workshop on Mobile Vehicular Networks (MoVeNet).
  • 2008:
    the IEEE/IFIP Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), the 5th IEEE Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), IFIP Networking 2008, the 2nd International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN), the IFIP 7th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net), the 1st Workshop on Physics-Inspired Paradigms in Wireless Communications and Networks (PHYSCOMNET), 4th Worskhop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks (ALGOSENSOR), the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-08), the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Globecom 2008, Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium, Mobility Models 2008, 1st ACM Workshop on Mobility Models for Networking Research.
  • 2009:
    the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems and Applications (DEXA 09), the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-09), the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, IEEE International Conference on Communications, SAC Symposium, International Conference on Distributed Computing for Sensor Systems (DCOSS), the 6th IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), the 3nd International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN), the 6th ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), the 16th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), the 8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AD HOC NOW), Globecom 2009, Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium, Nets4Cars: International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, 20th Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications.
  • 2010:
    the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems and Applications (DEXA 2010), the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), the IEEE International Conference on Communications, SAC Symposium, the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), the 11th ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 6th Worskhop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks (ALGOSENSOR), Globecom 2010, Selected Areas of Communications Symposium, 4th IEEE International Workshop on Personalized Networks, the 7th IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), International Conference on Distributed Computing for Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVec), the 7th ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), the 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Systems (MASS), Nets4Cars: International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, the IFIP 9th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net).
  • 2011:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Personalized Networks, IFIP Networking 2011, the 3rd International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars 2011), International Conference on Distributed Computing for Sensor Systems (DCOSS), the 8th IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), the 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Systems (MASS), the 8th ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), the IFIP Wireless Days conference, the 7th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN).
  • 2012:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), the IEEE/IFIP Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), the 9th IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), IFIP Networking 2012, the 21th International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), the 1st International Workshop on Novel Approaches to Energy Measurement and Evaluation in Wireless Networks (NovaEnEv}, the ACM Workshop on Emerging Name-Oriented Mobile Networking Design (NOM), the 9th ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), the 10th ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac), the 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), the 7th International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication, and Applications (BWCCA).
  • 2013:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), the 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, the 76th IEEE Semi-Annual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), the 22th International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), the 25th International Teletraffic Conference (ITC), the 5th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars 2013), the 10th ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), IFIP Networking 2013, the 8th Int. Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing (BWCCA), the 11th ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac), the 9th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN).
  • 2014:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, the 11th IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), the 15th ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), the 6th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars 2014).
  • 2015:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), the 81th IEEE Semi-Annual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), the 7th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars 2015).
  • 2016:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), the 8th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars 2016), the 18th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, the 1st ACM Workshop on Connected and Automated Vehicle Mobility (CarSys), the IEEE Congress on Big Data, the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference.
  • 2017:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), IEEE Globecom, the 2nd ACM Workshop on Connected and Automated Vehicle Mobility (CarSys), the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference.
  • 2018:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), the 87th IEEE Semi-Annual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), IEEE Globecom, the International Workshop on Safety, Security and Privacy in Automotive Systems (STRIVE), the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference.
  • 2019:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), IEEE Globecom, the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference.
  • 2020:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things and Intelligence Systems (IOTAIS), the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference..
  • 2021:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).
  • 2022:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).
  • 2023:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).
  • 2024:
    the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).
• Demo Co-Chair, ACM MobiHoc Conference, 2016.
  
• Technical Program Vice-Chair of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc networks and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2016.
  
• Symposium Co-Chair of the topic Security and Privacy, IEEE Smart Grid Communications Conference, 2015.
  
• Symposium Co-Chair of the topic Security and Privacy, IEEE Smart Grid Communications Conference, 2014.
  
• TPC Group Leader, 10th IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2013.
  
• Global Chair of the topic Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-PAR), 2012.
  
• Technical Program Vice-Chair of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc networks and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2012.
  
• Technical Program Chair of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Vehicular Networks (InVeNet), 2010.
  
• Technical Program Chair of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh), 2009.
  
• Technical Program Vice-Chair of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc networks and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2009.
  
• General Co-Chair of the 5th ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), San Francisco, CA, Sept. 2008.
• General Co-Chair of the 4th ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2007.
• Technical Program Vice-Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), Hong Kong, Dec. 2006.
  
• Local Arrangements Chair of the 7th ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Florence, May 2006.
  
• Finance Chair of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Dependability Issues in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks (DIWANS), Los Angeles, September 2006.
• Co-organizer of the 1st Workshop on Dependability Issues in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks (DIWANS), 2004.
  
• Reviewer for the following journals: IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, IEEE Trans. Par. Dist. Sys., IEEE Trans. on Reliability, IEEE Trans. Wireless Comm., IEEE J. on Selected Area of Communications, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, The Computer Journal, Journal of Par. Distr. Comp., Inform.Proc. Letters, Mobile Net. and Applications, Algorithmica, Discrete Applied Mathematics, and many others.