Antonio Liotta

Current

• Professor of Communication Networks at Eindhoven University of Technology

Past

• Reader at University of Essex
• Lecturer (Research Team Leader) at University of Surrey, UK
• Researcher (Technical Project Coordination) at University of Surrey, UK

• Visiting Researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol, UK
• Guest Lecturer at University of Pavia, Italy
• Researcher at University of Pavia, Italy

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Education

• University College London, U. of London
• CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano
• Università degli Studi di Pavia

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Connections

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Industry

Telecommunications

Antonio Liotta’s Summary

* A charismatic team leader who has managed research projects in the area of software for telecommunication systems and services since 2000
* Software architect of innovative services and middleware for mobile terminals
* Pioneer of mobile peer-to-peer systems and user-centric management of services (QoE management)
* Engaging lecturer, adept in training telecommunication professionals on advanced networking topics

Antonio Liotta’s Specialties:

Management of research projects on:
* autonomic networks
* software for telecommunication systems
* development of innovative mobile services
* middleware for service-centric networks
* 3GPP standards (e.g. OSA, VHE, IMS)
* IP Multimedia Subsystem
* Quality of Experience Management
* Peer-to-Peer systems and applications
* Grid Computing & applications
* Digital Rights Management
* IP networking
* pervasive networks & services

Antonio Liotta’s Experience

• Professor of Communication Networks

  Eindhoven University of Technology

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

• Reader

  University of Essex

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 9 months)

  * Leader of Pervasive Services Team (10+ researcher)
  * Software architect of proof-of-concept prototypes of innovative mobile services and platforms
  * Training in the area of telecommunication services, service-centric middleware, pervasive systems, distributed & mobile computing, advanced networking, and unconventional networks

• Lecturer (Research Team Leader)

  University of Surrey, UK

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

  February 2001 — December 2004 (3 years 11 months)

  * Leader of Service Management Team (8+ researcher)
  * Software architect of proof-of-concept prototypes of advanced service middleware, policy-based service adaptation, and mobile grids
  * Training in the area of telecommunication services, service-centric middleware, web services, advanced networking, and unconventional networks

• Researcher (Technical Project Coordination)

  University of Surrey, UK

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

  February 2000 — January 2001 (1 year)

  * technical project coordinator in the areas of advanced IP networking, content distribution networks, adaptive services, 3GPP virtual home environment
  * software developer - proof-of-concept prototypes (network programming, Java, QoS management)

• Visiting Researcher

  Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol, UK

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 1996 — September 1996 (9 months)

  Investigation on and proof-of-concept prototyping of:
  * Management of telecommunication systems (TMN)
  * Database technologies for network management

• Guest Lecturer

  University of Pavia, Italy

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  December 1995 — January 1996 (2 months)

  * Consulted to give specialist lectures in the area of computer networks and operating systems

• Researcher

  University of Pavia, Italy

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 1995 — December 1995 (1 year)

  * Fellowship by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) to investigate real-time image processing algorithms as a means to support autonomous robots navigation.
  * Prototyped a sub-pixel camera calibration system.

Antonio Liotta’s Education

• University College London, U. of London

  PhD , Computer Science , 1997 — 2000

  * Thesis on the use of mobile software agents to address the problem of monitoring very large-scale, dynamic networks and systems.
  * The work demonstrates how code mobility allows fine-grained monitoring of complex systems.
  * The work makes the p-median problem tractable, with far reaching implications in graph theory, networking, system management, and transportation theory.

• CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano

  Master , Information Technology , 1994 — 1995

  * Obtained "first class with honors" degree.
  * Awarded best MSc student of the year (in a class of 60 students).
  * 1-year experimental thesis at the multimedia laboratory on: Computer Supported Cooperative Work for Telemedicine.

• Università degli Studi di Pavia

  5-years Laurea , Computing and Electronic Engineering , 1988 — 1994

  * Obtained "first class with distinction" degree.
  * 1-year experimental thesis at the Robotics Laboratory on real-time image processing for autonomous robots navigation.

Additional Information

Antonio Liotta’s Honors:

* 2005: Best paper/presentation award, at the 4th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS’05), Porto Alegre, Brazil, Springer, 29-31 August, 2005.
& 1996: 4-year scholarship awarded by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol, UK.
* 1995: Awarded best master student of the year. CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
* 1994: 1-year MSc scholarship awarded by Olivetti, Italy.

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