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Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Parks School of Engineering (secondary appt.)
University of Missouri, Columbia Visiting Res. Assistant Professor (by courtesy) Electrical Eng. and Computer Science Department |
Current Openings
Students and visiting scholars
I have openings for motivated students (see our CS department webpage) and visiting researchers; if you are an undergraduate or a graduate student interested in doing research with me, please send me an email with your resume and transcripts.
Contact Information
Office: ISE 234D
3450 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103
St. Louis, MO 63103-2007
Phone: (314) 977-2434
Email: first DOT last AT slu DOT edu
Research interests
Most of my research centers on networked systems: network virtualization, network management, Software-Defined Networks (SDN), network architectures and wireless networks. I also enjoy working on interdisciplinary problems.
Research Awards
I am currently a Principal Investigator on 3 research awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and one award from the National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG). In the past, I have also received an NSF subaward from the University of Missouri, on an EPSCoR project, and a SLU intramural President's Research Fund Award. I have also received a COMCAST Innovation Fund Award in Jan 2020.
NSF US Ignite: Collaborative Research: Focus Area 2: Resilient Virtual Path Management for Scalable Data-intensive Computing at Network-Edges SLU News Article about the award
Short Bio
Since Aug 2016: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Saint Louis University
Since May 2019: Assistant Professor (secondary appointment), SLU School of Engineering (Parks)
Since Aug 2015: Courtesy Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept. at Mizzou
Oct 2013 - July 2016: Member of the Advanced Technology Group at Exegy Inc.
Ph.D. in Computer Science at Boston University.
May 2009 - Aug 2009 Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ (Research Internship)
May 2008 - Aug 2008: Raytheon BBN Technologies Cambridge, MA (Research Internship)
May 2007 - Aug 2007: Eurecom Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France (Research Internship)
Oct 2006 - Dec 2006: Centre for Wireless Communication (CWC), Oulu, Finland (Res. Scientist)
Jan 2006 - Oct 2006: Alcatel-Lucent, Florence, Italy – now Thales (Permanent Contract)
Dec 2005: M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering at University of Florence, Italy
Mentoring
Current Students and Collaborators
Aziza Alzadjali, visiting Ph.D, student from University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA.
Michele Berno, visiting Ph.D. student from University of Padova, Italy
Roberto Coral, visiting M.S. student from Politecnico of Turin, Italy
Matteo Flocco, M.S. student at SLU
Emily Maxwell, undergraduate at SLU
Waqar Muhammad, M.S. student at SLU
Maria Mushtaq, M.S. student at SLU
Fabio Palumbo, visiting Ph.D. student from University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
John Pasquesi, M.S. student at SLU
Hunter Park, undergraduate at SLU
Past Student Collaborators
Nabeel Akhtar, Ph.D. student - Main advisor: Ibrahim Matta (Boston University)
Gabriele Castellano, Visiting Ph.D. student from Politechnic of Turin
Dr. Dmitrii Chemodanov (now at Google, CA)
Chiara Contoli, Ph.D. Postdoc at University of Bologna, Italy
Gianluca Davoli, visiting Ph.D student from University of Bologna, Italy
Alessandro Gaballo, Visiting Master Student from Eurecom, France
Matthew Gottsacker, Undergrad at SLU (BS 2018)
Mary Hogan, (Research Assistant) SLU (BS 2017). Now Ph.D. student in CS at Princeton University
Sebastiano Gazze’, Visiting Master Student from Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Patman Jon, Master Student at University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Alessio Sacco, visiting Ph.D. Student from Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Alessio Scalingi, visiting M.S. student from University of Naples, Federico II
Agnese Ventrella, (now at Ericsson Research, Sweden)
Tao Xu, Visiting Master Student from Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Jiayi Wang, (Research Assistant) SLU (BS 2017). MS student in CS at Northwestern University
Past Undergraduate Student Collaborators
Kyle Coleman, SLU (BS 2017)
Samiksha Mailarpwar, SLU (BS 2018)
Thomas Merod, SLU (BS 2018)
Meghan Pendyala, SLU (BS 2017)
Selected Service Activities
TPC Co-Chair of IEEE NetSoft 2019
Student Travel Grant co-chair of ACM CoNEXT 2019
Panel co-chair at IEEE NFV-SDN
Associate Editor of Wiley Internet Technology Letters (since May 2017)
Distinguished TPC member of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019)
Panelist at IEEE NFV-SDN 2019/
TPC member of all Workshops on Serverless Computing (WoSC)
Invited talk at the 2nd IEEE Intern. Workshop on Orchestration for Software Defined Infrastructures (04SDI 2016) colocated with IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN 2016)
Co-organizer of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2012), Boston, MA.