Faculty
Full professors
Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
Assistant professors (RTD-A)
Corrado Puligheddu
Dr. Corrado Puligheddu is an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, since 2023. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2022. In 2021, he was a visiting scholar at Northeastern University, USA. His research interests include 5G networks, edge computing, Open RAN and machine learning, particularly in the context of demanding and innovative mobile applications. He has authored over 10 scientific articles in prestigious journals and international conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, and IEEE INFOCOM. He is serving as technical committee member of Elsevier Computer Communications.
Francesco Raviglione
Dr. Francesco Raviglione, born in Biella (Italy) in 1994, earned his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (2016) and M.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering (2018) from Politecnico di Torino, focusing on automotive and embedded systems. In November 2019 he started his Ph.D. in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering. He completed it cum laude in 2022, with a thesis on “Open platforms for connected vehicles”. He was also a visiting scholar at Northeastern University, Portland, Maine, USA, for six months between 2021 and 2022.
Currently, he is an Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at Politecnico di Torino, specializing in vehicular networking platforms and protocols, in open source, customizable, solutions for wireless networking use cases, and in network measurements and performance assessment. He is one of the main developers of the ms-van3t (https://github.com/ms-van3t-devs/ms-van3t) and OScar (https://github.com/DriveX-devs/OScar) platforms for vehicular communications.
PostDocs
Antonio Calagna
Dr. Antonio Calagna is a postdoctoral researcher at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where he received the Ph.D. degree, cum laude, in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering in 2025. His research focuses on fundamental challenges in time- and mission-critical AI inference at the network edge, as well as on the placement and orchestration of microservice-based architectures across the edge–cloud continuum.
His Ph.D. thesis, “Mobility-Aware Orchestration and Management of Edge Services in Next-Generation Mobile Networks,” addressed key challenges in microservice migration and distributed microservice architectures, contributing to the advancement of intelligent and sustainable next-generation mobile networks.
Marco Palena
Dr. Marco Palena is a postdoctoral researcher at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2017, with a thesis titled “Exploiting Boolean Satisfiability Solvers for High-Performance Bit-Level Model Checking”. In 2013, he was a visiting scholar at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. From 2018 to 2023, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at DAUIN (Department of Control and Computer Engineering) at Politecnico di Torino, focusing on formal methods for hardware verification. Since 2024, he has been affiliated with CNIT as part of its Research Unit at Politecnico di Torino. His current research interests include semantic communication and collaborative intelligence at the network edge.
Ph.D. Students
Alessandro Compagnoni
Alessandro Compagnoni is a Ph.D. student working in the AWE-lab and working on wireless communication systems (with a focus on the physical layer), Edge Computing and Machine Learning.
Amber Hina
Amber Hina is a PhD student in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, since October 2024. She received her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Telecommunication and Networking, from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2021. Her research interests focus on resource allocation optimization at the physical and MAC layers, with particular emphasis on network slicing and beam management for next-generation wireless systems.
Zhao Zhiqiang
Zhao Zhiqiang is a PhD student in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from November 2024. He received his B.Sc. double degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology and Politecnico di Torino in July 2017. He earned his Master’s degree in ICT for Smart Societies at Politecnico di Torino in 2024.
Stefano Ravera
Stefano Ravera is a PhD student in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from November 2025. He got his B.Sc. Degree in Electronic Engineering in December 2022 and M.Sc. Degree in ICT4SS cum laude in April 2025, both from Politecnico di Torino. His contributions tackle the challenge of placing time- and mission-critical services at the network edge, with a particular emphasis on the distribution of composite AI workloads.
Visiting
Prof. Gustavo de Veciana
From The University of Texas at Austin
https://www.ece.utexas.edu/
https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~
Prof. Emanuele Viterbo
From Monash University
https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/emanuele-viterbo
Prof. Marco Levorato
From University of California, Irvine
https://iasl.ics.uci.edu/people/marco-levorato/
https://ics.uci.edu/~levorato
Former Members
- Nancy Varshney
- Yenchia Yu (got his Ph.D. in 2026)
- Dinesh Cyril Selvaraj (got his Ph.D. in 2024)
- Isha Chauhan
- Madhura Adeppady
- Giuseppe di Giacomo (got his Ph.D. in 2024, with a thesis titled “Resource-Aware and Resilient Learning in Mobile Networks”)
- Kalkidan Tilahun Gebru (got his Ph.D. in 2022, with a thesis titled “MEC-based Mobility Tracking and Safety Service through IoT”),
- Federico Mungari (now at Eviden in Madrid)
- Marco Malinverno (now at Italdesign Giugiaro)
- Giuseppe Avino (now with Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
- Dr. Ahmed Badawi (now with Ericsson R&D in Ottawa),
- Dr. Zana Limani (now Research Scientist at Prishtina University, Best PhD Student Award at Politecnico di Torino),
- Dr. Carlo Borgiattino (now Software System Architect in Magneti Marelli),
- Dr. Siyuan Zhou (now Assistant Professor at Hohai University, China),
- Dr. Massimo Reineri (now R&D Specialist – Connected Car Engineer at Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A.),
- Dr. Diego Borsetti (now in Metroconsult S.r.l., leader in IPR protection),
- Dr. Ahmed Masri , Senior Research Specialist: Telecom and Artificial Intelligence Specialist, in Magister, Finland
- Dr. Saed Tarapiah (Assistant Professors at An-Najah National University)
- Dr. Valeria Baiamonte (now at Principal Spectrum Policy at Ofcom, London),
- Vahid Forutan (now Senior Researcher at Universität Ulm, Germany).
- Senay Tadesse (defense date: Mar. 2020),
- Alaa Awad Abdellatif (Research Assistant at Qatar University ),
- Ahsan Mahmood (cEricsson, Sweden),
- Claudio Rossi (now Researcher at Istituto Superiore Mario Boella),
- Francesco Malandrino (now Researcher at IEIIT-CNR, Torino, Italy),
- Marco Fiore (now at IMDEA, Spain)
- Dr. Christian Vitale (PhD from UC3M, Madrid),
- Dr. Satyam Agarwal (PhD from IIT Delhi, now Assistant Professor with IIT Guwahati),
- Dr. Chetna Singhal (PhD from IIT Delhi, now Assistant Professor with IIT Kharagpur),
- Dr. Gil Einziger (PhD Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, now with Bell Labs),
- Dr. Giuseppa Alfano (PhD from the Università degli Studi del Sannio)
- Dr. Alessandro Nordio (PhD from EURECOM, now Researcher with IEIIT-CNR)
Past Visiting Members
- Prof. Swades De, IIT Delhi, India
- Prof. Ioannis Stavrakakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Greece
- Carolina del Valle (Tecnológico de Monterrey),
- Manuel Fogué Cortés (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
- Roberto Sadao (University Sao Carlos University Brasil),
- Chi-Anh La (from Eurecom, France),
- Claudia Campolo (from Università Mediterranea, Italy)
- Ali Mahani (from IUST, IRAN)
- Pedro Chaparro Alonso (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain).