DISTEFANO Salvatore

Author of more than 250 scientific papers and recipient of some best paper awards. He visited several universities and research centers such as: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA, University of California Los Angeles, USA, Duke University, Durham, USA, Innopolis University, Russia, Professor Fellow at Kazan Federal University from 2015-2018, Kazan, Russia.
During such visits, he collaborated with top scientists such as Liudong Xing (UMass Dartmouth), Mario Gerla (UCLA), Kishor Trivedi (Duke), Bertrand Meyer (Innopolis), Arndt Bode (TUM), D. Avresky, Rajkumar Buyya (UniMelb), Carlo Ghezzi (PoliMi), Symeon Papavassiliou (NTUA).
He took part to several national and international projects, such as Reservoir, Vision (EU FP7), SMSCOM (EU FP7 ERC Advanced Grant), Beacon, IoT-Open.EU (EU H2020), 1 M$ Professor Fellowship Grant - KFU - Russia, 2015-2018.
He is a member of international conference committees and he is on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Journal of Cloud Computing, Journal of Big Data, Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Sensors.
His main research interests include: non-Markovian modeling; performance and reliability evaluation; dependability; sustainability; trustworthiness; Quality of Service/Experience; Service Level Agreement; Parallel and Distributed, Cloud, Autonomic, Volunteer, Crowd, Edge, Fog, Continuum Computing; Internet of Things; Cyber Physical Systems; Smart Cities; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Digital Health; Swarm and collective intelligence; Big Data, Stream Processing; Software and Service Engineering; Software Defined and virtualized ecosystems; DevOps, DataOps; Hyper Spectral Imaging; Machine Learning. He contributed to the development of several tools such as WebSPN, ArgoPerformance, GS3 and Stack4Things.
He is one of the co-founder of SmartMe.io, a University of Messina spin-off established in 2017.
He is coordinating the CINI WG on System and Service Engineering.