Awards

Scientific Awards

  • 2014: Best paper award for the article:
    Nuno Diegues and Paolo Romano
    Self-Tuning Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions
    The 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2014), Philadelphia, USA, 18-20 June 2014

  • 2013: Best paper award for the article:
    Diego Didona, Pascal Felber, Derin Harmanci, Paolo Romano and Joerg Schenker
    Identifying the Optimal Level of Parallelism in Transactional Memory Systems
    The International Conference on Networked Systems 2013 (NETYS'13), LLNCS, May 2013

  • 2013: Winner of the FutureGrid Project Challenge for the article:
    Sebastiano Peluso, Pedro Ruivo, Paolo Romano, Francesco Quaglia, and Luis Rodrigues
    When Scalability Meets Consistency: Genuine Multiversion Update Serializable Partial Data Replication
    32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012)

  • 2011: Best INESC-ID Young Researcher 2011
  • 2010: Distinguished member of the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC)
  • 2008: Best paper award for the article:
    P. Romano, D. Rughetti, F. Quaglia and B. Ciciani,
    APART: Low Cost Active Replication for Multi-tier Data Acquisition Systems,
    Proc. 7th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'08), IEEE Computer Society Press, July 2008.

  • 2007: Best paper award for the article:
    B.Ciciani, A.Santoro and P. Romano,
    Approximate Analytical Models for Networked Servers Subject to MMPP Arrival Processes,
    Proc. 6th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'07), IEEE Computer Society Press, July 2007.

  • 2003: Awarded a three years scholarship for the 19th XIX Doctoral course at the Department of Computer and System Sciences, Rome University ``La Sapienza''.
  • 2002: Exempted from military service duties for scientific merits.
  • 2002: Degree "summa cum laude" in Computer Engineering from University of Rome Tor Vergata