Marco Di Felice received his
Bachelor Degree (summa cum
Laude) in Computer Science in 2002, from the
University of
Bologna, Italy. He received his
Master Degree (summa cum
Laude) in Computer Science in 2004, from the
University of
Bologna, Italy. His master thesis addressed the design of
distributed protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). In
January 2005 he was a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer
Science, University of Bologna, Italy, under the supervision of
Prof.
Lorenzo Donatiello and of Prof.
Luciano Bononi.
From August 2007 to December 2007 and April 2008 to August 2008 he
was a visiting researcher in the Broadband Wireless Networking
Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engeneering,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He worked
under the supervision of Prof.
Ian Akyildiz on the design,
analysis and performance evaluation of distributed routing and MAC
protocols for next-generation Cognitive Radio Networks. In April
2008, he received his
PhD degree in Computer Science, from
the University of Bologna. Italy. His PhD thesis addressed
cross-layer optimizations for multi-hop wireless ad-hoc networks.
From September to December 2009, he was a visiting researcher at
the
Northeastern University, Boston, USA. From April 2012,
he is an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer
Science, University of Bologna, Italy.
He authored more than 60 international Journal and Conference
Publications on Wireless and Mobile systems, protocols, modeling
and simulation. In 2012, his paper: "DySCO: A DYnamic Spectrum and
COntention Control Framework for Enhanced Broadcast Communication
in Vehicular Networks" received the Best Paper Award at the
10th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and
Wireless Access (MOBIWAC 2012). In 2013, his paper:
"Re-establishing Network Connectivity in Post-Disaster Scenarios
Through Mobile Cognitive Radio Networks" received the Best Paper
Award at the 12th IEEE Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop
(IEEE Med-Hoc-Net 2013).
Since August 2014, he is Associate Editor of the Ad Hoc
Network journal (Elsevier), and member of the technical
committee of the Computer Communications journal (Elsevier). He
served as Program Committee (PC) member in more than 20
international conferences and workshops. He was Track Chair
organizer in CogART 2011, CogART 2012 and BWCCA 2012, and he served
as Program Co-Chair of the 82nd Vehicular Technology
conference (VTC Fall 2015, track on Next Generation Wireless
systems), of the First International Workshop on Emerging COgnitive
Radio Applications and aLgorithms (CORAL'12), of the Second
International Workshop on Emerging COgnitive Radio Applications and
aLgorithms (CORAL'13), of the Third International Workshop on
Emerging COgnitive Radio Applications and aLgorithms (CORAL'15) and
of the First International Workshop on Self-organizing Wireless
Access Networks for Smart-City (SWANSITY 2014). He
was Co-Publication Chair of WoWMoM 2011 and WoWMoM
2012. He collaborates with several Italian and International
research groups, e.g. Karlstad University (Sweden), Northeastern
University (USA), Arizona State University (USA), UCLA (USA),
Supelec (France), American University of Beirut (AUB), etc.
He joint the following national and European research
projects: PRIN 2006 NADIR (on the study of MAC and routing
protocols for self-organizing multi-hop wireless mesh networks),
PRIN 2009 STEM-NET (on the study of self-configuring wireless
systems based on the utilization of cognitive radio systems and
decision making techniques), ARTEMIS EU Internet-of-Energy (on the
study of modeling platforms and mobile services to support electric
mobility).
His research activity includes: the design, analysis and
performance evaluation of Wireless and Mobile protocols and
architectures (e.g. Cognitive Radio Networks,
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Mesh Networks),
the network self-configuration based on swarm intelligence and
learning based approaches, the distributed resource optimization,
the multi-hop communication in wireless systems, the
Machine-to-Machine (M2) communication, the seamless
integration of sensors and heterogeneous mobile devices on
smart-spaces and smart-home environments.
Moreover, he is interested on mobile
applications, integration with big-data
technologies and social media analytics.
