Lorenzo is Chair of the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, where he is Tisch University Professor. Previously, he served as University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1996. For his research in distributed systems, he has received prestigious recognitions, including the Sloan Fellowship, the Humboldt Research Award, the NSF Career Award, and faculty research awards from IBM and Google. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow. His scientific papers have been recognized by major international conferences in the field, including OSDI 2020 (Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award), SOSP 2005 and 2007 (Award Paper), USENIX 2007 (Best Paper), and WWW 2001 (Best Paper).

At ELICSIR, he is a member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors and the Board of the Orthogonal School.

Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bologna. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. He earned his PhD in Computer Science in 1981 from the University of California, Berkeley. His extensions of virtual memory for AT&T’s Unix system, developed during his doctoral studies at Berkeley, became the foundation for a long series of “BSD Unix” distributions. He received the Sakrison Memorial Award in 1982 (along with Bill Joy), the UNIX International Recognition Award in 1989, and the USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. In 2002, he was named an ACM Fellow. In 2007, he co-founded the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO). He has served on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, and Springer Distributed Computing.

He is the President of ELICSIR and the Chair of the Board of the Orthogonal School.

Andrea is Vice-President of ALEA Ambiente. He has decades of experience as Director of the "Centro Residenziale Universitario di Bertinoro" (CeUB), where he coordinated the organization of thousands of university schools and international scientific events. He also served on the board of directors of the "Museo Interreligioso di Bertinoro".

At ELICSIR, he oversees all logistical, organizational, and administrative aspects of the foundation.

Gianfranco is a Full Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padua and an Academic Visitor at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. In 1985, he earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. At the University of Padua, he has been a member of the CdA and Vice-Rector for IT infrastructure. His research interests include algorithms and parallel architectures, high-performance computing, theory of computation, formal languages, VLSI, and signal processing.

He is a member of the ELICSIR Foundation’s Board of Directors and the Board of the Orthogonal School.

Paolo is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Università Statale di Milano, where he has coordinated both the PhD program and the undergraduate program in Computer Science. His research focuses on algorithms for the web and social networks, with notable achievements such as the experimental confirmation of the six degrees of separation theory on Facebook and advanced algorithms for web graph compression. He has developed widely-used software within the international academic community and has served as chair for leading international conferences, including WWW, WSDM, and ACM Web Science. He has received three Yahoo! Faculty Awards and a Google Focused Award.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Valeria Cardellini is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Her research interests include distributed software systems, particularly in the areas of Cloud and Edge computing. She is the co-author of over 100 publications in international journals and conferences and serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

At ELICSIR, she is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Matteo is a researcher at the University of Padua. He earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Padua and subsequently held positions as a visiting research scholar at Brown University, a postdoctoral researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen, and a researcher at the Libera Università di Bolzano. His work focuses on algorithms for processing large-scale data, with particular emphasis on clustering, similarity search, and time series analysis.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Flavio is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, where he earned his PhD in 2010. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell and a Visiting Scientist at Google. His research spans algorithms, machine learning, and mathematical modeling, with a focus on social networks and the Web. He has received several prestigious awards, including an ERC Starting Grant and the KDD 2015 Best Paper Award. He was awarded the “Best Young Italian Researcher in Theoretical Computer Science” by EATCS in 2014 and has received multiple Google Awards, including two Focused Awards. He has held leadership roles in premier international conferences such as KDD and WWW, and has been part of the program committees of STOC, SODA, PODC, ICALP, NeurIPS, and ICML; he serves as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Algorithms.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

After earning a degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Bruno has first been a researcher and later the research director at the CNR in Pisa. He also served as the director of the CNR’s Institute of Computational Mathematics since its foundation. He has taught and collaborated with several U.S. universities, including Cornell University, the University of Chicago, and Berkeley. His research focused on algorithms and computational complexity, particularly program checking (in collaboration with Manuel Blum) and the computational theory of games (with Kasturi Varadarajan). In recent years, he has dedicated himself to science communication. Since 1994, he has been an honorary professor at Harbin Engineering University in China, and in 2020 he was awarded the Brescia Prize for Scientific Research.

In ELICSIR, he serves as the Academic Year Coordinator for the Orthogonal School

Michele is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna. He is affiliated with the Bologna Business School and Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe. He graduated at the University of Pisa and he has worked at the universities of Rome and Modena. His research interests span cybersecurity, scalable architectures for big data management, and AI analysis. He founded the Research Center on Security and Safety as well as the Cyber Academy for ethical hackers. Michele has authored over 250 peer-reviewed articles and led numerous national and international projects.

Barbara is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padua. Her research focuses on the application of data mining and machine learning for the analysis of biological data for applications in bioinformatics and medicine. In particular, in the study of regulatory metagenomic and transcriptomics, as well as the modeling of disease dynamics. At the University of Padua, she leads the SysBioBig (Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Group) research group.

At ELICSIR, she is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Matteo earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999. His research interests include the theory and practice of parallel algorithms, multi-threaded systems, cache-oblivious algorithms, signal processing, and, more recently, zero-knowledge proofs. He has worked for over a decade in the cloud industry, designing storage and networking systems for some of the leading cloud platforms. His research has earned significant recognition, including the Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software in 1999, the ACM Most Influential PLDI Paper Award in 2008 and 2009, the SPAA Best Paper Award in 2009, and the IEEE FOCS Test of Time Award in 2019.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Zeynep Kiziltan earned her PhD in Computer Science from Uppsala University (Sweden) in 2004, receiving the award for the best thesis in Artificial Intelligence in Europe from EurAI. She then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Bologna, where she later became an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science (DISI). Her research focuses on predictive and prescriptive data analysis based on AI, aimed at solving combinatorial optimization problems in various application domains, including high-performance computing (HPC). She has collaborated on numerous scientific projects with companies and international universities, published several papers, and released software and datasets. Since 2021, she has been an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Constraint Programming.

At ELICSIR, she is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Elena Loli Piccolomini is a Full Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna. Her research primarily focuses on solving inverse problems in imaging, using both numerical optimization techniques and deep learning methods. She has authored numerous publications and has coordinated several research projects, including collaborations with companies in the medical sector.

At ELICSIR, she is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Vittorio is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bologna. He is the author of over 100 international publications with nearly 40,000 citations on Google Scholar. He serves on the editorial boards of journals such as OR Spectrum, Swarm Intelligence, Operational Research - An International Journal, Algorithms, and Int. J. of Applied Metaheuristic Computing. His research focuses on heuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization, a field he has been involved with since his PhD in Computer Science, obtained at the Politecnico di Milano in 1993. He was one of the designers of the Ant System algorithm, which later evolved into Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), and more recently, he has been a leading figure in the metaheuristics community (2006 to present).

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Giovanni obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa, as well as an associate researcher at the Institute of Computer Science and Telecommunications of CNR. Previously, he was a professor and associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Eastern Piedmont, a Visiting Scientist at MIT, and a Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Melbourne. His research in the design and analysis of algorithms has led to profound results in the field of data compression, which have had a “fundamental impact on data compression and computational biology”, earning him the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award in 2022.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Alberto earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bologna in 2000. In 2005, he joined the University of Trento as an Associate Professor, and in 2020, he became a Full Professor. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Academic Senate and serves as the Rector’s Delegate for the Third Mission at the University of Trento. He has published over 120 articles in the field of algorithms and distributed systems, with a particular focus on large-scale decentralized systems. In both 2020 and 2022, he was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in the rankings published by Stanford University.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Antonio earned his PhD in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University, working on the international ceti project, which aims to decode whale communication using machine learning. During his studies, he was a research intern at SpikeTrap and Amazon, a visitor at the Technion, and an ELLIS student.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Lorenzo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the design of algorithms to address fundamental computational challenges in machine learning and combinatorial optimization, combining ideas from both continuous and discrete optimization into a unified framework. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2011 and taught applied mathematics at MIT until 2015. He has received prestigious awards, including the SODA Best Paper Award in 2014 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2020. He has also been invited to serve on the program committee of major conferences such as FOCS, SODA, and NeurIPS.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Alessandro is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sapienza in Rome. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. His research interests cover all aspects of algorithms, with a particular focus on randomized and distributed algorithms, and more recently, machine learning. He is the President of BICI, the Bertinoro International Center for Informatics. He has received international recognition for his research, including the ACM Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award, the Dijkstra Prize, and faculty awards from IBM, Yahoo!, and Google, as well as two Google Focused Awards. He has served on the program committees of major conferences such as SODA, PODC, ICALP, WWW, and KDD, also taking on leadership roles. He is an associate editor of JCSS.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of ELICSIR and the Board of the Orthogonal School.

Andrea is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padua. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on data mining, algorithms for big data and high-performance computing. He has published around one hundred papers in international journals and conference proceedings on these topics and has received two best paper awards (IPDPS 2004, Euro-Par 2023). He has served on the editorial boards of several journals (J. Discrete Algorithms, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Theoretical Computer Science) and on program committees, often in roles as chair or vice-chair, for leading conferences such as SODA, ICALP, SPAA, WebConf, WSDM, IPDPS, and Euro-Par.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Nicola is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees (both summa cum laude) at the University of Udine, where he also completed his PhD in 2017. He has held postdoctoral positions at the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Pisa, and worked as an assistant professor at LUISS University in Rome. His research, which earned him a prestigious ERC Starting Grant, focuses on algorithms and data structures for managing and analyzing compressed big data, with applications in bioinformatics. He was awarded the “Best Young Italian Researcher in Theoretical Computer Science” (EATCS) in 2018 and the “Best PhD Thesis” award from the University of Udine in 2017.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Geppino is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Padua. After earning his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, he held a postdoctoral position at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. At the University of Padua, he has served as a member of the Academic Senate and as the President of the Computer Engineering Degree Programs. His research focuses on algorithms for big data analysis and high-performance computing. He is the author or co-author of over one hundred publications in international journals and conferences. He has received three Best Paper Awards (IPDPS 2004, ICCS 2004, Euro-Par 2023) and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms. He has also been a member of the program committees (including chair or vice chair roles) for numerous leading conferences in the scientific community, such as SPAA, ICALP, IPDPS, and WWW.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Emilio Fabio is a professional journalist with experience at some of Italy’s leading media outlets, including Il Sole 24 Ore, La7, ANSA, AGI, and L’Espresso. He has written investigative documentaries for RAI, La Repubblica, and Sky. He has also served as a communications consultant for both Italian and international companies such as eBay, BlackBerry, CLIA, Poste Italiane, Eni, Enel, Hertz, and Editori Laterza. He conducts seminars on journalistic communication and storytelling for social media.

At ELICSIR, he serves as the social media manager and coordinates media relations.

Daniele is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he earned his PhD in Information Engineering in 2012. Before returning to Rome, he was a researcher at CWI in Amsterdam, the University of Aarhus, and the University of Trento. His research interests focus on both theoretical and applied cryptography, with over 80 publications in top journals and conferences in the fields of cryptography and cybersecurity, such as Crypto, Eurocrypt, IEEE S&P, and the Journal of Cryptology. He won the Best Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2011. He has served on the program committees of major international conferences like Eurocrypt and Crypto and is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

At ELICSIR, he is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.