Adaptive Scheduling for Soft RT & Multimedia Applications

BLUE ROOM - TECIP INSTITUTE

In this seminar, Tommaso Cucinotta will provide an overview of the research activities he's been carrying out throughout nearly 10 years spent at the RETIS of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, and he will briefly talk about his recent experience in Bell Labs and AWS DynamoDB.

Short Bio Born in 1974 in Potenza, Italy. Got Computer Engineering degree on 3rd May 2000, with maximum ranks (110 cum laude), at University of Pisa. Got Computer Engineering PhD on 21st July 2004 at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA) of Pisa with a thesis entitled "Issues in authentication by means of smart-card devices". From year 2005 to 2011 researcher at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. From year 2012 to June 2014 researcher at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in Dublin, Ireland, carrying out research in security and real-time performance of cloud-based systems. Since July 2014, Software Development Engineer at Amazon DataBase Services, Dublin, Ireland, where he worked on improving the real-time performance and scalability of DynamoDB. Since 2016, associate professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. For more details, please checkout my complete CV.

Main research topics of interest:

Real-time and embedded systems

Quality of service control for soft real-time applications

Resource management in virtualized cloud infrastructures

Platforms for real-time data streaming and analytics

Operating Systems for many-core platforms

System-level security in cloud infrastructures

Smart-cards: interoperability, protocols and architectures

Digital signatures, biometrics identification, multicast security