Mario Di Francesco

Summer internships and visiting professor positions available at the Data Communications Software research group of Aalto University. Additional information available upon request.
The 18th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2012), submission deadline: June 1, 2012 [CFP].
The 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2013), submission deadline: July 15, 2012 [CFP].

The 2012 ACM SIGCOMM conference (SIGCOMM 2012), to be held in Helsinki, Finland, on August 13-17, 2012.

Welcome to Mario's home page

Mario is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Aalto University (formerly known as Helsinki University of Technology TKK) in Finland. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Texas at Arlington in the US. He is member of the Data Communications Software research group, as well as of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN). His research interests include wireless sensor networks, pervasive computing, mobile networking, and performance evaluation.

Read more about Mario's bio, publications, professional activities, and contact information.

Current research topics include: scheduling in wireless sensor networks; storage and visualization of heterogeneous and multimedia data in the Internet of Things; and energy characterization of mobile cloud computing. Read more.
Currently active projects include Cloud Orchestrated Services for MObile Security (COSMOS), partially funded by NSF and Amazon. Read more.
See also an overview of publications.

Upcoming course: Systems Engineering in Data Communications Software (to be activated in Fall 2012).
Research topics available for special assignments and master theses.
Motivated and talented students are encouraged to contact Mario for a PhD position at DCS/CSE on the available topics. Additional information for prospective PhD students is available on the related CSE webpage.

R. Fakoor, M. Raj, A. Nazi, M. Di Francesco, S. K. Das, An Integrated Cloud-based Framework for Mobile Phone Sensing, The 1st SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC 2012), To appear
G. Pallapa, M. Di Francesco, S. K. Das, Adaptive and Context-Aware Privacy Preservation Schemes Exploiting User Interactions in Pervasive Environments, The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Data Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks (D-SPAN 2012), To appear
More publications: selected or all.

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