He was born in Naples on 6th of august 1966.In 1992 he graduated cum laudem in Physics with specialization in Cybernetics at the "Università di Napoli Federico II".From 1991 to 2000 he has been working at the Istituto di Cibernetica of CNR (CNR-ICIB) with grant supports and temporary research positions. From 2001 he is a CNR research scientist with a permanent position.From 2000 to current he teaches in Operating Systems and Programming Languages at the Computer Science course of the Faculty of Science (University of Naples "Federico II").From 1996 to 2005 he participated to several European Projects (Nanos & VHF Esprit Projects FP4, POP LTR Project FP5) in High Performance and Grid Computing.From 2009 he is responsible of the CNR-ICIB research unit of the HPCLAB of CNR-ISTI (Pisa). The activities he is leading are in the Service-Oriented Architecture research area and they are part of the S-Cube FP7 Project workplan and supported by EU fundings.From 2014 he is a researcher at the High Performance Computing and Networks Institute of CNR (ICAR-CNR) and member of the Computational Inteligence Lab (CILAB).He is coauthor of fifty papers published in international journals and conferences. He has been member of conference committes and evaluation boards for research grant and acquisition of HPC infrastructures.Specialties: Parallel Computing, High Performance Computing, Service Oriented Architectures in the past, Artificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning and Robotics in recent years.