He received the M.Sc. degree in communications engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2005, and a dual Ph.D. degree in computer science and networks from Politecnico di Milano (Networks group) and Telecom ParisTech (NMS group), France, in 2009. In 2010, he worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow with NTNU (Q2S), Norway, and George Mason University (CNL), USA. Before the Ph.D., in 2005-2006, he worked as a Research Associate with Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (GERAD), Canada, and with Politecnico di Milano, and as a Network Engineer with Fastweb Italia, Italy. Dr Secci is IEEE Senior member.