Awards, Honors, and
fellowships
Thanks to the collaboration with very brilliant colleagues and students
I have received several awards, honors and fellowships (reverse
chronological order):
- 14) December 2013, Best Student Paper Award at ACM Conext 2013 for the paper 'P.
Marchetta, V. Persico, E. Katz-Bassett, A. Pescapè, "Don't Trust
Traceroute (Completely)", ACM CoNEXT 2013, Santa Barbara, California
(USA), December 9-12, 2013' - poster.
- 13) February 2013, Google
Faculty Award for the UBICA
(User-Based Internet Censorship Analysis) research project.
- 12) November 2012,
Open
Source
Software World Challenge 2012,
certificate of achievement in recognition of outstanding professional
achievement and contribution to the development of open source software
for the TIE (Traffic Identification Engine) platform.
- 11) November 2012, for
the paper “Broadband Internet
Performance: A View From the Gateway", by S. Sundaresan, W. de Donato,
N. Feamster, R. Teixeira, S. Crawford, A. Pescapè, published
at ACM SIGCOMM 2011, Toronto (ON, Canada), August 2011, Srikanth
Sundaresan has received the IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) ANRP
(Applied Networking Research Prize). Also, this paper has been selected
for Communications of the ACM Research Highlights (2012).
- 10) August 2012, Best
Poster at SIGCOMM 2012 for the poster
"Detecting
Third-party Addresses in Traceroute IP Paths", by W. de Donato, P.
Marchetta, A. Pescapè, presented at SIGCOMM'12, Helsinki,
August, 2012 (For this work Pietro Marchetta - one of my PhD students -
has won the 1st place in the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Student Research
Competition).
- 9) July 2012, for the
paper "Analysis of Country-wide Internet
Outages
Caused by Censorship", by A. Dainotti, C. Squarcella, E. Aben, K. C.
Claffy, M. Chiesa, M. Russo, A. Pescapè, published at ACM
SIGCOMM/SIGMETRICS Internet Measurement Conference IMC 2011, Berlin
(Germany), November 2011, Alberto Dainotti has received the IRTF
(Internet Research Task Force) ANRP (Applied Networking Research
Prize).
- 8) June 2012, I
have been appointed as “Affiliate Senior Research
Fellow” within the
“VMLab: Testbed
for Desktop Virtualization
Experiments” at the Ohio Supercomputer
Center/OARnet, The Ohio State University (USA).
- 7) February 2012, I
have been appointed as Honorary Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the
School of Computing, Informatics and Media of the University of
Bradford (UK).
- 6) January 2012,
awarded the NVIDIA Academic Partnership,
involving a
donation of a C2075 for experimenting with Machine Learning and Data
Mining algorithms for Network Traffic Classification.
- 5) November 2011, Open
Source Software World
Challenge 2011, certificate of achievement in recognition of
outstanding professional achievement and contribution to the
development of open source software for the D-ITG (Distributed Internet
Traffic Generator) platform.
- 4) November 2011, TEA
(Technologybiz Endorsement Award) 2011
for the
BISMark project.
- 3) June 2010, Best
Local Paper award at IEEE ISCC 2010 for the
paper
"UANM: a platform for experimenting with available bandwidth estimation
tools", by A. Botta, A. Pescapè, G. Aceto, M. D'Arienzo,
published at 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communications (ISCC
2010), Riccione (ITALY), June 2010.
- 2) February 2009, IET
Communications Premium Award 2009 for
the paper
''Performance measurement of IEEE 802.11b-based networks affected by
narrowband interference through cross-layer measurements'', by L.
Angrisani, A. Pescapè, M. Vadursi, G. Ventre, published in
IET Communications (formerly IEE Proceedings - Communications), vol.2,
no.1, pp.82-91, January 2008.
- 1) November 2007,
awarded the INTEL IXA UNIVERSITY PROGRAM,
involving
a donation of two Dual-Core Intel Xeon LV processors equipped with
Intel E7520 chipset development kits for experimenting with algorithms
for high performance networking (mainly network traffic generation).