Computer Science · Research · Teaching · Public engagement
Researcher and lecturer in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa
I study how to design, distribute, and make software systems observable across heterogeneous infrastructures, from the Cloud–Edge continuum to the quantum cloud, with a focus on security, sustainability, and quality of service.
Open to research collaborations, thesis projects, and public engagement initiatives.
01 · Profile
My research focuses on engineering distributed software systems that run across heterogeneous infrastructures. A common thread is turning differences in capacity, reliability, energy use, cost, and trust into actionable information for placement, decomposition, orchestration, and execution decisions.
I work with declarative models, service-oriented architectures, open-source prototypes, and reproducible experiments. In recent years, I have extended these topics from the Cloud–Edge continuum to quantum cloud infrastructures.
02 · Research
Three interconnected research directions, united by a focus on non-functional requirements, reproducibility, and the development of practically reusable tools.
Methods and infrastructures to distribute, optimise, and make the execution of quantum circuits reproducible across heterogeneous QPUs: circuit cutting, shot distribution, benchmarking, hardware-aware selection, and adaptive execution control.
Placement and simulation of distributed applications across the Cloud–Edge continuum, with a particular focus on FaaS orchestrations, energy-data observability, resource consumption, and microservice architectures.
Security-by-design for distributed applications: placement informed by information flows and provider trust, threat modelling, secure partitioning, and trustworthy execution platforms.
Projects and software
Distributes quantum-circuit fragments and shots across multiple NISQ computers, reconstructing the final result and analysing trade-offs among parallelism, overhead, and quality.
RepositoryA library, dataset, and set of procedures for reproducibly comparing quantum software across algorithms, circuits, shot budgets, and different backends.
RepositoryA microservice architecture for acquiring, transforming, aggregating, and making heterogeneous energy data observable, developed within the NEST project.
RepositoryA declarative prototype for determining placements of FaaS chains while accounting for hardware, software, latency, data-sensitivity, and provider-trust requirements.
RepositoryA discrete-event simulator for deploying and executing FaaS orchestrations on dynamic Cloud–IoT infrastructures, including failures, recoveries, and energy metrics.
RepositoryAn educational public-engagement application that uses an interactive game to introduce quantum computing and quantum software concepts.
Repository03 · Publications
A selection of representative publications. The complete and up-to-date list is available on Google Scholar and ORCID.
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04 · Public engagement
Two ongoing activities through which I bring research and programming beyond the classroom, with initiatives for students, families, and non-specialist audiences.
Founding member · Research and public engagement
I contribute to the group’s activities on quantum computing and quantum software engineering, including the organisation of the 2024 and 2025 Pisa Quantum Festival and public demonstrations based on QTris at events such as BRIGHT-NIGHT and Internet Festival.
Visit the groupVolunteer mentor and organiser
I prepare materials and run free sessions for children and teenagers on Scratch, Python, micro:bit, machine learning, and educational robotics, supporting participants as they develop their projects.
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Open to research collaborations, thesis projects, and public engagement initiatives.
