About

Short bio

My name is Giuseppe Sollazzo and I’m a yet another 27-years-old Italian-IT-person-who-moved-to-London.

I was born in the town of Barletta in South Italy. I moved to Bologna in 2001 to start a degree course in Computer Science.

I received my BSc in 2004 and my MSc in 2007, both from the Department of Computer Science of University of Bologna, Italy. I developed my Masters Thesis whilst being a Research Fellow at University College London, in 2006. Under supervision of Dr. Cecilia Mascolo I developed a time-aware dissemination protocol for Delay-Tolerant Networks.

Previously I worked on process algebras for mobile ad-hoc networks, for my BSc thesis, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Gianluigi Zavattaro.

Work experiences

I started officially my career in March 2007,  as an Analyst-consultant for  Noemalife Spa, a multinational company based in Bologna where I was employed as Analyst. Noemalife develops software solutions for health care companies and my job involved providing consultancy to customers (mainly, state-owned hospitals) I managed. My main specialisation was tuning of digital signature services. I also provided courses to customers’ technicians and took care of the databases.

Before that, I also worked as lead developer for an exciting small Internet startup in Italy, GetLocal SrL, where I had to implement their system of classified ads and virtual domains webmail.

Willing to learn more and deepen my skills, I decided to go back to academia in October 2008, when I started a PhD at Imperial College London upon moving in the UK. For many reasons I will blog about, I decided to quit the PhD and started working as a Systems Developer and Administrator at St George’s University of London, where I currently work.

Past – and less organized – work experiences include a couple of internships in the ISPs and publishers world, and being a web master for a University Department.

Publications and other documents

TACO-DTN: A Time-aware Content-based Dissemination System for Delay-Tolerant Networks
Giuseppe Sollazzo, Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo.
In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp 2007). Colocated with Mobisys’07. Puerto Rico, USA, June 2007. ACM Press.
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Professional service

Reviewer for the 7th International Conference on Coordination Languages and Models (Coordination 2005).

Other interests

In my – not so much – spare time I’m also interested in researching user interaction on novel communication means, like Twitter. I also like playing with Arduino and geoweb programming.

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