In 2000, he received a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the area of Automatic Configuration of Component- Based Distributed Systems. His research interests include Free and Open Source Software, Distributed Systems, Agile Development, Cloud Computing, Health Informatics, and Computer Music. Fabio is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and he is a member of the program committee of several international conferences and workshops. He is, currently, the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications, a Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Director of the USP FLOSS Competence Center