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Individual Speaker Profile

Giovanni Merlino Back to Speakers Bureau


Date Joined: February 01, 2017
Country: Italy
Home Town: Messina
Zip Code: 98121
Registered for Upcoming Summit: No
Statement of Interest

Research and Development for: extending IaaS/PaaS mechanisms and policies to the Internet of Things (e.g., Edge computing), orchestrating and federating networks across Clouds

Areas Of Expertise
  • Cloud
  • IoT
  • Networking
  • Containers
  • Blockchain

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Bio

Prof. Giovanni Merlino Ph.D. is currently tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering at the Department of Engineering, University of Messina (UniMe). He holds an international PhD degree in Computer and Telecommunications Engineering from the Department of Engineering (DIEEI) at the University of Catania.

His research activity is currently focused on mobile and distributed systems with particular emphasis on Cloud paradigms, Edge computing, Internet of Things, Network Virtualization, Smart sensors, and crowdsensing, co-leading the design of Stack4Things, an OpenStack-based Sensing-and-Actuation-as-a-Service framework for I/Oclouds, co-authoring over 100 papers in international journals and conferences, participating in technical program committees of international conferences, as well as spearheading efforts for an official and crowdfunded research initiative (#SmartME) to deploy and operate an experimental Smart City testbed in Messina.

He has been elected National Secretary of the italian Association of Fixed-Term Researchers (ARTeD) in 2022.
He is co-founder of smartme.IO (http://smartme.io), an academic spin-off company.
He is co-inventor and holder of an Italian patent.
He is IEEE/ACM member.


Presentations from previous and upcoming OpenInfra Summits:
OpenInfra Summit Vancouver 2023
  • An OpenStack-powered Edge service forwarding and tunneling solution for IoT infrastructure in Smart City and Industry 4.0 scenarios
Vancouver, BC Boston
Additional presentations:

Willing to present via video conference: Yes
Willing to travel to any country: Yes
Fluent in
  • English
  • Italian

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