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He is an Associate Professor with the School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna, where he is in charge of courses on computer architecture, logic design, and interoperability of embedded systems. He is a former Director of ARCES, an interdepartment research center with the University of Bologna. His current research interests include embedded systems to semantics-based data distribution architectures for cyber-physical systems. He is the co-author of research from Intel Labs (USA), Nokia Research (Espoo, Finland), Siemens Corporate Technology (Munich, Germany), Telecom Italia Lab (Turin, Italy), VTT (Oulu, Finland), Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), and the University of Kent (Canterbury, U.K.). He is the Coordinator of the University of Bologna participation to European research initiatives in the areas of open cultural heritage, smart environments, and electric mobility.

He received a PhD in Computer Science Engineering in 2005 from the University of Bologna where he is currently Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" - DEI and member of the Advanced Research Center on  Electronic Systems "Ercole De Castro" - ARCES. He has been running bachelor and master courses on "Computer Architecture" and "Information Technology and Arts Organizations” and his research interests are mainly focused on investigating interoperable solutions within the Linked Data and Web of Things domains. He is the principal investigator of SEPA (SPARQL Event Processing Architecture). He is also active on the industrial technology transfer in domains like energy, cultural heritage and agriculture.

He received a Master Degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2017 and he is currently a 1st year PhD student in ARCES. His research is framed within the Web of Things domain applied to the evaluation of the environmental risk.