She received the Laurea Degree in Computer Science, summa cum laude and the PhD in Computer Science from the same University in respectively 2006 and 2010. She was an engineering intern at Google Zurich in 2005, a visiting scholar at the CS Dept. of UNC-Chapel Hill, USA, from November 2008 to April 2009, and a Research Intern at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, from January to April in 2011. Her research interests include computer systems and network security, mobile cloud computing, parallel and distributed systems, and analysis and modelling of social mobile wireless networks. In 2011 she won the Working Capital PNI Research Grant (30 winners out of 2138), offered by Telecom Italia. She was presented with the Sapienza’s CS Department Best PhD studentpaper award in 2009, best IEEE SECON 2013 and best IEEE INFOCOM 2013 Demo Awards.