Professional Activities & Talks

Awards, editorial service, conference organization and invited speaking

2018

National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale)

For Associate Professorship in Telecommunications.

2016

IEEE Senior Member

Elevated to Senior Member grade, December 2016.

2011

First Prize, Body Sensor Network (BSN) Contest

With the WASNLab team, at the first BSN Contest, held in conjunction with the 2011 Body Sensor Networks (BSN) conference, Dallas, TX, USA.

2006

Fulbright / BEST Finalist

Business Exchange Student Training finalist, December 2006.

2006

Best Student Paper Award

IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN), for paper [C4].

2004

Best First-Year Student

Telecommunications Engineering (Second Level Master), University of Parma, AY 2003/04.

Since Jan 2026

Associate Editor

IEEE Networking Letters — coordination of the review process, ~1 paper/month.

Since Nov 2025

Associate Editor

IEEE Communications Letters — coordination of the review process, ~1 paper/month.

Since Jun 2018

Associate Editor

IEEE Access — coordination of the review process, ~4 papers/month.

2021 – 2024

Guest Editor

MDPI Sensors — Special Issue on "IoT Enabling Technologies for Smart Cities: Challenges and Approaches."

Since Apr 2020

Moderator

IEEE TechRxiv preprint platform — coordination of the approval process, ~2.5 papers/month.

Since Aug 2020

Topic Advisory Panel Member

MDPI Sensors journal.

2026 · Cagliari

General Chair

IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom).

2027 · Washington DC

Track Chair

"Selected Areas in Communications: e-Health," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

2025 · Cairo

Track Chair

"Secure and Scalable Network Architectures," IEEE Middle East Conference on Communications and Networking (MECOM).

2027 · Santiago

Publicity Chair

IEEE Latin American Conference on Internet of Things (LatinIoT).

2026 · Abu Dhabi

Publicity Chair

IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT).

2025 · Avignon

Publicity Chair

IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS).

2021 · Cagliari

Publication Chair

IEEE IoT Vertical and Topical Summit on Tourism.

2026

Next-Generation Networking and Computing Continuum for Large-Scale Digital Twins

Special session at the Int'l Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), Padua, Italy.

2021

Wireless Intelligence: From Reconfigurable Surfaces to Edge/Cloud Communications

Workshop of the Gruppo nazionale Telecomunicazioni e Teoria dell'Informazione (GTTI), online, 26 March.

2018

RAIN-IoT: Recent Advances in Indoor Navigation for IoT-based Applications

Special session & session chair, IEEE PIMRC, Bologna, Italy.

2017

STCD: Models and Algorithms for Spatially and Temporally Correlated Data

Special session & session chair, International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA), Venice, Italy.

2010

SPCI – Dialog 1: Electric Machines / Signal Processing

Session chair, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Bari, Italy.

IEEE ICC (2018–2027) IEEE Globecom (2011, 2024–2026) IEEE CNS (2025–2026) Network of the Future — NoF (2023–2026) Future Comm. & Networks — FCN (2026) Future Networks World Forum — FNWF (2026) WCSP (2026) IEEE PIMRC (2020, 2023–2024) MoMM (2023–2024) FiCloud (2022–2024) MMEDIA (2018–2020) IEEE ISPLC (2020) IEEE ICCCS (2019) Dependable Comm. & Localization Workshop, Graz (2017) ICRAECT, Bengaluru (2017) SPACOMM (2009–2010) WSNPerf, Pisa (2009)

Also a frequent and regular reviewer for the main scientific journals and conferences in the field of telecommunications.

2026–27

Secretary, Italian Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society

2025–

Representative for the University of Cagliari at the Datacom Industry Association (DIA)

2024–

Representative of the GTTI research unit at the University of Cagliari

2023–

Committee member, drafting the degree program, M.Sc. in Internet Engineering, Cagliari

2023–

Committee member, evaluating study plans, B.Sc. in Electrical Energy Eng. for Sustainable Development, Cagliari

2023–

Dean's delegate for the shareholders' assembly, CNIT

2021

Member, scientific committee for the national GTTI meeting, Italy

2021

Co-chair, annual Ph.D. Day of the DRIEI Ph.D. program, Cagliari

2012–17

Committee member for the review report (Rapporto del Riesame), E-Campus University

2013–17

Committee member for quality assurance, E-Campus University

Oct 2026

Trustworthy by Design Next Generation Digital Twin-Enabled Services for Smart Environments

Keynote speech at the workshop "Connected and Trustworthy Intelligence for Smart Environments: The Internet of Mirrors (IoM) and Beyond," IEEE WF-IoT, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Keynote

Sep 2026

Trustworthy by Design Next Generation Digital Twin-Enabled Services

Invited online talk, University of Glasgow, UK.

Dec 2025

Distributed, Robust and Trustworthy Service Delivery in Edge-Assisted Green 6G

Tutorial with V. Pilloni and F. Malandra, IEEE Globecom, Taipei, Taiwan.

Tutorial

Dec 2024

Distributed, Robust and Trustworthy Service Delivery in Edge-Assisted Green 6G

Tutorial with V. Pilloni, IEEE Globecom, Cape Town, South Africa.

Tutorial

Oct 2023

Distributed, Robust and Trustworthy Service Delivery in Edge-Assisted Green IoT

Tutorial with V. Pilloni, IEEE WF-IoT, Aveiro, Portugal (virtual).

Tutorial

Sep 2023

Distributed, Robust and Trustworthy Service Delivery in Edge-Assisted Green 6G

Tutorial with V. Pilloni, IEEE PIMRC, Toronto, Canada.

Tutorial

May 2023

On Fast and Secure Communications for IoT Networks

Int'l Conf. Computing Technologies, Tools and Applications (ICTAPP), University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan.

Mar 2023

Distributed, Robust and Trustworthy Service Delivery in Edge-Assisted Green 6G

Tutorial with V. Pilloni, Int'l Conf. Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN), Paris, France.

Tutorial

Aug 2022

On Fast and Secure Communications for IoT Networks

EDUC Summer School on Building Trust in the Information Age, University of Cagliari.

Apr 2017

Statistical Models of Spatially Correlated Binary Sources with Application to Communication Networks

Special Track on Models and Algorithms for Spatially and Temporally Correlated Data (STCD), MMEDIA, Venice, Italy.

May 2016

Phase Noise Channel: Models and Fundamental Limits

Institute for Communications Engineering, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany.

Dec 2011

Towards Large-scale P2P Distributed Storage with Decentralized Maintenance: a Network Coding-based Approach

Disney Research Zürich, Switzerland.

Jul 2006

Clustered Decentralized Binary Detection in Sensor Networks: a Joint Communication/Information-Theoretic Approach

Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Italy.