I'm a tenured researcher (chargé de recherche ‐ CRCN) at the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) having the luck of working with the POLARIS team.I got my PhD degree in computer engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2009, where I also received a B.Sc. (2003) and a M.Sc. (2005) cum laudem degree. After my PhD experience, I've joined Inria in Grenoble as a postdoc(2009-2010) and then the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in Bilbao (2010-2013). In 2014, I've joined Inria as a tenured researcher working with the CQFD team in Bordeaux until 2018. Among others, I've held visiting positions at IBM T.J. Watson and Caltech.I'm interested in the broad field of decision-making under uncertainty, where computer science, applied maths and engineering intersect. Mostly relying on methods from applied probability and operations research, I'm looking for highly-scalable algorithms that minimize congestion and operational costs of large-scale distributed systems. I like using Markov processes to model the dynamics of cloud networks and then studying delays and energy consumption costs in some limiting regime of practical interest.Some keywords: queueing theory, reinforcement learning, Markov decision processes, load balancing, auto-scaling, power consumption minimization, cloud systems, stochastic process limits
Listed skills include Distributed Systems, Operations Research, Algorithms, Stochastics, and 16 others.