I am a Ph.D Student in Computer Engineering in the Electronics, Computer Science and Systems department (DEIS — Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica) at the University of Bologna. I work in the field of Distributed Systems and Computer Networks.

My research is focused on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), with a particular interest on architecture design, hybrid routing, and WSNs integration in enterprise networks.

My current research includes:

• fast/secure/reliable data collection;
• WSN management;
• heterogeneous wireless communications;
• heterogeneous networks integration.

When I'm not working on sensor nodes and wireless protocols, I like to tinker with other stuff:

• computer security;
• distributed middlewares for enterprise architectures;
• cryptography applications.

Past and current research projects include:

• The WANDA middleware — (WSN ApplicatioN Development Aider) is a WSN integration middleware that covers many aspects like etherogeneous WSN management, service integration, QoS guarantees and data caching.