Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor (Sep. 2019 - Present)

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara, Italy

  • Principal investigator for the "Data-driven IT Services for Sustainable and Efficient Manufacturing (DISSEM)" project, value 700 k€, funded by Regione Emilia-Romagna on PR-FESR 2017-2023 funds. The project has the objective of developing a platform for the creation of Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) and Zero Waste Manufacturing (ZWM) services of wide applicability in the Industry 4.0 field, and involves important companies such as Bonfiglioli Group, Carpigiani Group, and Imola Informatica.
  • Research unit coordinator for the "A Digital Twins-enabled platform for a REsilient and Sustainable production in the InduSTry 5.0 era (RESIST0)" project, value 700 k€, funded by Regione Emilia-Romagna on PR-FESR 2017-2023 funds. The project has the objective of developing IT services for the management of manufacturing plants and the implementation of resilient supply chains leveraging Digital Twin technologies. Participating companies: Imola Informatica and SACMI.
  • Research unit coordinator for the "sEcure and SCAlable cLoud bAsed opTImizatiON (ESCALATION)" project, value 700 k€, funded by Regione Emilia-Romagna on PR-FESR 2017-2023 funds. The project has the objective of developing a scalable and secure-by-design platform for optimization services for the transport industry and for energy communities. Participating companies: Coopservice, Maps.
  • Scientific coordinator of project "BD4M: Big Data 4 Manufacturing", value 500 k€, funded by the first national call for research and innovation grants of the BI-REX Industry 4.0 competence center (cofinanced by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development). The project has the objective of developing a Big Data platform of large applicability in Industry 4.0 applications. Participating companies: IMA, Bonfiglioli Riduttori, SACMI, Poggipollini, MEP, Philip Morris International, BitBang, CDM / Lutech (PTC group), DataRiver.
  • Research unit coordinator for the "Dynamic EdgE computing for Plant MONitoring (DEEPMON)", value 500 k €, funded by the first national call for research and innovation grants of the BI-REX Industry 4.0 competence center (cofinanced by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development). The project has the objective of developing innovative adaptive and context-aware Big Data solutions at the edge for Industry 4.0. Participating companies: IMA, Bonfiglioli Riduttori, SACMI, Poggipollini, EMAG, Philip Morris International, CDM / Lutech (PTC group), DataRiver, Siemens.
  • Research unit technical lead for the SBDIOI40 Project, value 1.12 M€, funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region on the POR-FESR 2014-2020 funds. The project has the objective of developing a platform for the creation of Big Data services of wide applicability in the Industry 4.0 field, considering smart factory as well as smart product scenarios, and involves important companies such as Carpigiani, Cineca, Gea Procomac, Imola Informatica, Injenia, ItalianaSoftware and SACMI.
  • Director of master (corso di perfezionamento) “Industry 4.0” of the University of Ferrara, funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region within higher education initiative "Services and Innovation for Industry 4.0 (SII4.0)" in collaboration with the universities of Bologna, Parma and Modena / Reggio Emilia. The master aims to design and implement educational initiatives to promote the development of extensive and high-level skills capable of satisfying the qualified labor requirement for Industry 4.0, especially in terms of the realization and exploitation of Big Data platforms.
  • Many active Big Data research collaborations with world leading companies in the Industry 4.0 sector, such as Carpigiani Group, IMA, Bonfiglioli Riduttori, SACMI, Poggipollini, MEP, Philip Morris International, EMAG, Siemens, PTC, VM Motori, Elenos, and institutions such as IBM TJ Watson, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, St. John’s University, NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA).

Assistant Professor with tenure track - RTD-B (Sep. 2016 - Aug. 2019)

Departments of Engineering (9/2016-11/2018) and of Mathematics and Computer Science (12/2018-8/2019), University of Ferrara, Italy

  • Lead of the Big Data lab of the MechLav Technopole Laboratory, with the direct coordination of 5 research assistants. The lab participates in many research projects that involve the study and implementation of Big Data platforms for Industry 4.0 applications, both for "shop floor / smart factory" and "smart product" environments - i.e. intelligent devices explicitly designed to operate outside the factory without supervision and to create B2B and B2B2C services. The activities of the Big Data laboratory, still presently ongoing, have the main objective of overcoming limits of the main analytics solutions available on the market, analyzing how to build platforms Big Data of general applicability in Industry 4.0 for the analysis of data from different types of machines at different levels of abstraction (single machine, production line and multiline or multi-plant) and contextual storage of the collected data in order to optimize the use of resources.
  • Research unit technical lead for the Green Smart Technology for Water research project (GST4Water), aimed at the development of hardware and software solutions for an informed use of water by citizens and the reuse of gray- and rain-water inside buildings, financed by the Emilia-Romagna Region on POR-FESR 2014-2020 funds.

Assistant Professor (Sep. 2010 - Aug. 2016)

Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Italy

  • Lead of the Smart Metering lab of the MechLav Technopole Laboratory, with the direct coordination of 7 research assistants. The activities of the Smart Metering lab, still presently ongoing, have the main objective of designing and implementing ICT prototypes for smart water metering, both at the data acquisition, collection and processing levels, with the ultimate goal of detecting waste.

Research Assistant (Jan. 2006 - Aug. 2010)

Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Italy

  • Lead designer of "Teorema" Big Data platform for Carpigiani Group, currently in use in more than 24,000 (twenty four thousand) ice cream making machines operating in more than 30 countries around the world and has made it possible to reduce after-sales assistance costs by 25% sales supported by Carpigiani Group worldwide. The Teorema project initiated a long and fruitful research collaboration with Carpigiani Group that is still presently ongoing.

Main Research activities

For more information on Prof. Tortonesi's research activities, please refer to the Distributed Systems Research Group Web site.

Established numerous collaborations with world leading scientists and institutions, as attested by several publications in international journals and conferences.
  • Since August 2004, he collaborates with the NOMADS Research Team, led by Dr. Niranjan Suri, of the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) on research topics related to the implementation of middleware to support distributed applications in  extremely dynamic wireless environments. This collaboration originated from a 12-month programme during which Mauro Tortonesi worked as a visiting scientist at the main headquarters of the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition in Pensacola, FL, USA.
  • From 2006 to 2012, he collaborated with the HP Labs of Palo Alto, CA, USA, the research division of Hewlett Packard, in a research project that investigated the business-driven modeling of IT support organizations (the organizational structures in charge of the incident management process in IT service delivery).
  • From August 2013, he collaborates with Dr. Larisa Schwartz at the IBM TJ Watson research institute of New York, NY, USA, and Prof. Genady Grabarnik at St. John’s University of New York, NY, USA, for the business-driven placement of software components in federated Cloud environments.
  • From July 2015, he collaborates with the Battlefield Information Processing branch (Information Science Division, Computational and Information Sciences Directorate) of the United States Army Research Lab (ARL), as attested by several publications in international journals and conferences. This collaboration originated from a 3-month programme during which Mauro Tortonesi worked as a visiting scientist at the main headquarters of ARL in Adelphi, MD, USA.
Visiting exchange
  • Visiting scientist at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), in Pensacola, FL, USA, working within the NOMADS research group led by Dr. Niranjan Suri. (September 2004 - August 2005.)
  • Visiting scientist at the United States Army Research Lab (ARL) in Adelphi, MD, USA, working within the Battlefield Information Processing branch (Information Science Division, Computational and Information Sciences Directorate) led by Dr. Stephen Russell. (July 2015 - September 2015.)
Awards
  • Best Student Paper Award at the 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020) for manuscript F. Poltronieri, M. Tortonesi, A. Morelli, C. Stefanelli and N. Suri, "Value of Information based Optimal Service Fabric Management for Fog Computing," NOMS 2020 - 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, 2020, pp. 1-9, doi:10.1109/NOMS47738.2020.9110359.
  • 2020 Information Systems Technology (IST) Panel Team Excellence Award, assigned by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science and Technology Organization (STO) IST Panel, as unofficial but particularly active member of the NATO STO Research Task Group (RTG) IST-147 “Efficient group and information centric communications in mobile military heterogeneous networks”.
  • Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS 2023) for manuscript S. Dahdal, F. Poltronieri, C. Stefanelli, N. Suri,  M. Tortonesi, "A Data Mesh Approach for Enabling Data-Centric Applications at the Tactical Edge", in Proceedings of 2023 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS 2023), 16-17 May 2023, Skopje, Northern Macedonia.
  • Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2023) for manuscript L. Manca, D. Borsatti, F. Poltronieri, M. Zaccarini, D. Scotece, G. Davoli, L. Foschini, G. Ya. Grabarnik, L. Shwartz, C. Stefanelli, M.
    Tortonesi, W. Cerroni, "Characterization of Microservice Response Time in Kubernetes: A Mixture Density Network Approach", in Proceedings of 2023 International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2023), 30 October - 2 November 2023, Niagara Falls, Canada.
Associate editor in the editorial boards of:
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (ISSN: 1932-4537);
  • Wiley International Journal of Network Management (ISSN: 1055-7148);
  • Hindawi/Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal (ISSN 1530-8669).
Serving / served as co-chair for the organization of the following international conferences and workshops:
  • The 20th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2024) - Doctoral Symposium;
  • The 19th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2023) - Dissertation Digest;
  • The 18th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022) - Co-located Workshops;
  • 2021 AFCEA/IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2021) - Track 2;
  • The 17th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020) - Co-located Workshops;
  • 2019 AFCEA/IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2019) - Track 2;
  • The 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2015);
  • The 10th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2015);
  • The 14th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2015) - Experience Session Track;
  • The 14th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014) - Special track on the Management of the Internet of Things;
  • The 9th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2014);
  • The 8th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2013);
  • The 7th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2012).
Routinely serves as a Technical Program Committee member for the main international conferences and as reviewers for the main international journals in the network and service management and military communications research areas.
Project proposal reviewer for:
  • Czech Science Foundation;
  • Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) Vlaanderen (Flemmish Research Foundation);
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.

 

Developed a solid experience in cooperating with world-leading industries and universities as (informal) research unit technical lead in the following projects:
  • Project “Water 4.0”, funded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (2019-2022);
  • Project “Green Smart Technology for Water” (GST4Water), funded by Regione Emilia-Romagna within POR FESR 2014-2020 regional grants (2016-18);
  • Project “SORT”, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research on Axis II of the National operative programme (PON) for Research and Competitiveness 2007-13 within the call ‘Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation’ (2014-15);
  • Project “Smart Manufacturing 2020”, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research within the National Technological Clusters call (2013-2015);
  • Project DICET - INMOTO - ORganization of Cultural HEritage for Smart Tourism and Real-time Accessibility (OR.C.HE.S.T.R.A.), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research on Axis II of the National operative programme (PON) for Research and Competitiveness 2007-13 within the call ‘Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation’ (2014-15);