Giacomo Bernardi
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Brief:
- Currently, I'm a final year full-time PhD student at the WiMo group, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK.
- I've been for 6 years in the IT Management at NGI SpA (company of the British Telecom group), Milan, Italy.
- In 2007, my research proposal on Content Delivery Networks (CDN) has been awarded funding from "Enterprise Ireland" and I've been a Research Assistant at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
- Obtained a two-year MSc in Ubiquitous Computing at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
- BSc in Computer Science at the Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy.
- My full CV is at cv.minux.it
Publications:
- Giacomo Bernardi, Peter Buneman and Mahesh K. Marina. Tegola Tiered Mesh Network Testbed in Rural Scotland. In proceedings of ACM Mobicom 2008, workshop on "Wireless Networks and Systems for Developing Regions" (WiNS-DR).
- Giacomo Bernardi, Peter Buneman and Mahesh K. Marina. Broadband for Rural Scotland: a white paper.
- Giacomo Bernardi and Mahesh K. Marina. A System for Easing Management of Broadband Wireless Access Networks. In proceedings of Extremecom 2009. August 2009, Padjelanta National Park in Laponia, Sweden.
- Giacomo Bernardi and Mahesh K. Marina. BSense: a system for enabling automated broadband census. Technical report. [pdf]
- Giacomo Bernardi and Mahesh K. Marina. BSense: a system for enabling automated broadband census: short paper. In proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR '10). San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2010.
- Giacomo Bernardi, Matt Calder, Dadmon Fenacci, Alex Macmillan, and M. K. Marina. Stix: A Goal-Oriented Distributed Management System for Large-Scale Broadband Wireless Access Networks. In proceedings of ACM Mobicom 2010, Chicago, USA.
Talks:
- Presentation at the "Multi-Service Networks 2008" conference. Brendan Murphy award 2008 for the best presentation by a young researcher.
- Invited talk. Tegola: a tiered mesh network testbed in rural Scotland. At the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE), University of Pennsylvania, September 2008.
- Our project was selected for the SET for BRITAIN 2009 event at the UK Parliament in London, as one of the most promising 'Britain's early-stage and early-career research scientists'.
Media coverage of my Tegola project:
- BBC news in June 2008: video1, video2, video3, post from the "Technology blog".
- Interview on BBC Radio4 in June 2008: link.
- BBC radio interview at the 'Click On' programme on 09/11/2009: link (starts at around 10' from the beginning).
- Video slideshow shown at the opening ceremony of the Informatics school, University of Edinburgh, in 2008: via youtube, via vimeo.
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