Marco Canini
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KSA
Email: marco@kaust.edu.sa
Phone: +966 12 808 0489
Address: 4700 KAUST
Al-Khawarizmi Building 1
Office 1-4418
SA-23955-6900 Thuwal
Biography
Marco is an associate professor of Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Marco obtained his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Genoa in 2009 after spending the last year as a visiting student at the University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory. He holds a laurea degree with honors in computer science and engineering from the University of Genoa. He was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL from 2009 to 2012 and after that a senior research scientist for one year at Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs & TU Berlin. Before joining KAUST, he was an assistant professor in the ICTEAM Institute at the Université catholique de Louvain. He also held positions at Intel Research and Google.
During the course of his Ph.D., he worked on methods for accurate Internet traffic classification in real time based on application identification and the design of scalable network monitoring applications. At EPFL, his work addressed the challenges for reducing the Internet’s power consumption and for improving the reliability of distributed systems and software-defined networks.