He received his Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 2014. In 2010 he worked for a year as a researcher at the National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT) at Cagliari, on the development of models for network connectivity in mobile ad hoc networks. In 2013, he has been a visiting student at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His main research interests are on Internet of Things (IoT), particularly on the creation of a network infrastructure to allow objects to organize themselves according to a social structure. He is a member of IEEE since 2012.