Prof. Italo Epicoco graduated in Computer Engineering in February 1998 at the Politecnico di Milano. Throughout 1998 he worked at the research laboratories of the Politecnico di Milano for the study of design methodologies of VLSI circuits oriented to testability and optimal synthesis. Since December 2002, he has been a researcher at the University of Salento. In June 2003, he obtained the title of PhD at the ISUFI of Lecce. Since December 2002, he has been a member of the Computer Society—IEEE. The main research areas in which he is involved concern the study of problems related to parallel and distributed computing and in particular problems related to the management of heterogeneous resources in Grid Computing environments and collaborative environments. Of particular interest is the activity carried out within the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change for the optimization, parallelization, and benchmarking of climate models on massively parallel platforms.
Prof. Massimo Cafaro is an Associate Professor at the Department of Innovation Engineering of the University of Salento. His research interests include Parallel and Distributed Computing, Grid and Cloud Computing, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Security. He is the Director of the Master in Applied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Salento. He graduated in Computer Science at the University of Salerno, and received his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bari. He was a Visiting Professor at the British Institute of Technology and E-Commerce, London, UK. He is an invited lecturer at several universities and research institutions, and is a member of the IEEE Technical Committees on Parallel Processing, Distributed Processing, Scalable Computing, and Services Computing. Furthermore, he is the Vice Chair of Regional Centers and coordinator of the Technical Area on Data Intensive Computing within the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing. He actively collaborates with the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC), dealing with theoretical and practical research aspects with a particular focus on the design, analysis and implementation of sequential, parallel, and distributed algorithms.
