Curriculum e ricerca

Current Position

– Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Ferrara (Italy), DMI - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (starting from December 30th, 2019)

Past Positions

– Assistant Professor (RTD-b) in computer science at the University of Ferrara (Italy), DMI - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (2016-2019)
– Research Scientist at the University of Bologna (2004-2016)
– Co-founder and former partner of the Stoorm5 start-up http://www.stoorm5.com (2015)

Active Research Topics

– Digital Twins
– Industrial Internet of Things
– Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing
– Cyber security in industrial environments
– Permissioned Blockchains

List of Publications

– https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-1191
– https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=22334279900
– https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/H-3822-2012

Teaching Activity
– Operating Systems and Laboratory
– Industrial Internet of Things
– Big Data and Cloud Computing
– Full list of current and previous teaching activity: https://docente.unife.it/carlo.giannelli/didattica

National and International Grants (as principal investigator)
– July 2015 – September 2015: coordinator of the “PRESS” project funded by EU “SOUL-FI” http://soul-fi.ipn.pt/ 
– May 2015 – December 2015: coordinator of the “Stoorm5” project funded by EU “Climate-KIC” http://www.climate-kic.org/ 
– February 2015 – October 2015: coordinator of the “RESET” project funded by EU “SpeedUP! Europe” http://speedupeurope.eu
– 2024 - 2025 (15 months): coordinator of the "Z4I: Zero Trust Architecture for the Industry landscape" project, PNRR M4C2 I1.3 Partenariato Esteso SERICS - "SEcurity and RIghts In the CyberSpace" - Bando a Cascata SPOKE 8 - "Risk management and governance"

National and International Grants (as head of local unit)
– 2023 – 2025 (30 months): PRIN 2022 PNRR, head of local unit, project code P20225KTR4, project title “DATRUST – Connecting the physical and DigitAl worlds through TRUSTworthy data-flows”, ERC PE6_2
– 2024 – 2026 (24 months): PR-FESR EMILIA ROMAGNA 2021-2027, head of local unit, project title “ IGNITE 5.0 – IntelliGent and secure etworking in IndusTrial Environments: towards Industry 5.0”.
– 2024 – 2026 (24 months): PR-FESR EMILIA ROMAGNA 2021-2027, head of local unit, project title “C4SI – Cybersecurity for Smart Industry”.
– 2024 – 2026 (24 months): PR-FESR EMILIA ROMAGNA 2021-2027, head of local unit, project title “CRI4.0 – Cyber range for industrial security”.

Chairing
– TPC Chair MSWiM ’20, ’21, ’22, The ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
– Workshops Chair SMARTCOMP ’21, ’22, The IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing
– TPC Chair SCIRS ’20, International Workshop on Smart Computing for Industrial and Real-World Systems, co-located with SMARTCOMP
– TPC Chair LSAUC ’14 and ’19, The International Workshop on Location-based Services and Applications in Ubiquitous Computing

Journal Editor
– Associate Editor for ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR) starting from March 2024
– Associate Editor for Computer Communications journal (Elsevier) starting from October 2022, formerly member of the Technical Committee (from July 2014 to October 2022).
– Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Springer) starting from May 2023.
– Guest Editor for Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal, Special Issue “Location Based Services and Applications in the era of Internet of Things”, Guest Editors Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli, Mirco Musolesi, Marco Picone
– Guest Editor for Computer Communications (ComCom) journal, ACM MSWiM 2020 Special Issue, Guest Editors Antonio Loureiro (leading), Carlo Giannelli
– Guest Editor for Computer Communications (ComCom) journal, ACM MSWiM 2021 Special Issue, Guest Editors Carlo Giannelli (leading), Jun Zheng
– Guest Editor for Computer Communications (ComCom) journal, ACM MSWiM 2022 Special Issue, Guest Editors Carlo Giannelli (leading), Zhi Sun
– Guest Editor for the journal Sensors (MDPI), Special Issue “Middleware Solutions for Wireless Internet of Things”, Guest Editors Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli, Sajal K. Das, Jiannong Cao

Invited Speech
– Invited speaker at “IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things 2015”, Industry Forum Panel Sessions on “SDN & IoT”, speech title “SDN and IoT in Spontaneous Networks”, https://ieeetv.ieee.org/video/carlo-giannelli-sdn-and-iot-in-spontaneous-networks-at-iot-2015

Institutional Roles
– Councilor in the Board of the Clust-ER Innovate https://innovate.clust-er.it/, from 06/2025
– Representative for UniFE at CINI (Consorzio Interuniversitario per l'Informatica), from 03/2025
– Representative for UniFE at GRIN (Società Informatica Italiana), from 05/2024
– Representative for UniFE at 6G-IA (6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association), from 06/2023
– Organization of CyberChallenge at UniFE, from 2022
– Member of CPDS (Commissione Paritetica Docenti Studenti) at CdS in Informatica, from 2021 (as President in 2023-2024)
– Responsible of PLS (Piano Lauree Scientifiche) in Informatica funding at UniFE, from 2019
– Representative for DMI in the Directive of the CACSI Centre (Centro di Ateneo per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo Internazionale), from 2019

Other Research Topics

Networking:
– Networking and in Network Processing/Computing in OT environments
– Software Defined Networking

Cloud Computing:
– private IaaS development based on OpenStack
– SaaS app development based on public IaaS
– development and management of private PaaS

Mobile Computing:
– Social Networking in mobile environments
– Spontaneous Networking
– 802.11 handover prediction
– Vertical handover
– Wired/Wireless environments
– Handover strategies in IEEE 802.11
– Mobile agent platforms

Location Aware Computing:
– IEEE 802.11/BT positioning techniques
– Cross-layer positioning middleware
– Positioning system integration
– Positioning system management
– Privacy enabler mechanisms and applications