Bio

I’m an Associate Professor in the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of Politecnico di Milano. From April 1996 to June 1999 I have been researcher at CEFRIEL, leading the software engineering area. From April 1998 to September 1998 I have been visiting professor at University of California, Irvine (USA). My expertise lies in the area of software engineering and, in particular, of large-scale, open, service-oriented systems with a special attention to the techniques to make these systems self-adaptable to the changes in the environment and in the performances of its distributed components, and to enable them to identify and incorporate new components at runtime. Recently, I have been focusing on Cloud Computing and, in particular, on how to design applications that can run on multiple clouds in order to limit vendor lock-in and to increase availability and reliability of such applications.

Publications

You can refer to google scholar or DBLP for an updated list.

Teaching

  • Software Engineering 2 (graduate course)
  • Software Engineering 1 for the online degree (undergraduate course)
  • Foundations of computer science (undergraduate course of the Mechanical and Energetic Engineering curricula).

Member of International Boards

  • IFIP working group on Services-oriented Systems (WG 2.14/6.12/8.10)
  • QE LaB Advisory Board

Evaluator for EU FP7 programme, the Executive Board of the Austrian Science Fund, the French CHIST-ERA programme, the WWTF Information and Communication Technology Call 2010.

Member of Editorial Boards

  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
  • SOCA journal.
  • Journal of Software: Evolution and Process.

Conference committees

  • general chair of ESEC-FSE 2015
  • program co-chair of ASE 2010
  • program co-chair of ServiceWave 2010
  • workshops co-chair of ICSE 2010
  • workshops co-chair of ICSOC 2006
  • demo track chair of ICSE 2007
  • tutorial chair of ASE 2014
  • program committee of various international conferences such as ICSE (including ICSE 2015), ASE, FSE, ESEC-FSE, ICSOC, ICAC, ServiceWave, SEKE, DEXA.

Keynote Speaker at International Conferences 

Participation in funded projects

  • Coordinator of the FP7 Integrated Project MODAClouds (n. 318484), period 2012-2015, overall budget 8.5 Ml Euro.
  • Project scientific director of the Integrated Project SeCSE, period 2004-2008, budget for CEFRIEL 1.7 Ml Euro.
  • Principal Investigator for Polimi of the STREP SeaClouds, period 2013-2015, budget for Polimi 440 K Euro.
  • Co-proponent of the PoliCloud-Cloud and Things research laboratory.
  • Principal Investigator for Polimi of the FET CASCADAS, period 2006-2009, budget for Polimi 225 K Euro.
  • Workpackage leader in the S-Cube (Software Services and Systems) Network of Excellence, period 2008-2011 (379 K Euro).
  • Supporting the coordination of ART DECO (Adaptive InfRasTuctures for DECentralized Organizations), Italian Ministry for University and Research, period 2006-2009 (653.8 K Euro).
  • Participant in the projects SMScom, SLA@SOI, SOA4All, D-ASAP.

PhD students

  • Luca Cavallaro (2007-2010)
  • Daniel J. Dubois (2008-2010)
  • Nicola Calcavecchia (2010-2012)
  • Santo Lombardo since beginning of 2012
  • Marco Miglierina since beginning of 2013
  • Luca Florio since October 2013

Participation to PhD committees

  • Jon Arvid Børretzen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, defense 2007
  • Qin Gu, VU University Amsterdam, defense 2011
  • Grégory Nain, Irisa University, Renne, defense 2011
  • Issac Garcia, University of Grenoble, defense 2012
  • Aneta Vulgarakis, Mälardalen University, defense 2012
  • Maryam Razavian, VU University Amsterdam, defense 2013
  • Paul Snyder, Drexel University, Philadelphia, defense 2013
  • Damian Andrew Tamburri, VU University Amsterdam, defense planned for spring 2014

Grants and awards

  • Amazon AWS research grant in 2010 and 2012.
  • Microsoft Azure research grant in 2013.
  • In the journal Information and Software Technology, vol 50, 2008 the paper coauthored by Cugola, Fuggetta and myself and published on IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, 27 (9) 2001, pp 827-850 was listed as the second most cited paper of that year.