Curriculum Vitæ
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Professional Experience
- Oct 2019 - present: Principal Software Engineer, TTS R&D team, Cerence (spin-off of Nuance Communications), Torino (Turin), Italy
- Jul 2019 - Oct 2019: Principal Software Engineer, TTS R&D team, Nuance Communications, Torino (Turin), Italy
- Jun 2017 - Jun 2019: Senior Software Engineer, TTS R&D team, Nuance Communications, Torino (Turin), Italy
- Jul 2015 - May 2017: Freelance Python/C Developer
- Jul 2013 - Jun 2015: (co-founder, CEO, and) Head of Research of ReadBeyond
- Jan 2013 - Dec 2013: Research Collaborator, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, supervising student projects and theses involving mobile platforms and eBooks
- Jan 2013 - Jul 2013: (co-founder and) CTO of Smuuks
- Feb 2012 - Oct 2012: Research Collaborator, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, working in a Data Mining Research Project funded by Tektronix
- Oct 2008 - Dec 2008: AEOLUS Research Grant to study latency and bandwidth of Bluetooth Topology graphs, University of Padova
Education
- Jan 2009 - Dec 2011: Ph.D. Student at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, under the scientific supervision of Prof. Andrea Pietracaprina and Prof. Geppino Pucci. I successfully defended my PhD thesis Graph Models of Information Spreading in Wireless Networks on Fri 13 Apr 2012. My thesis committee included Prof. Raffaele Giancarlo, Prof. Alessandro Panconesi, and Prof. Davide Rocchesso.
- Jan 2010 - Jun 2011: I visited the Department of Computer Science of Brown University, working with Prof. Eli Upfal.
- Dec 2008: Italian Qualification for ICT Professionals (Esame di Stato per la Professione di Ingegnere)
- Oct 2006 - Jul 2008: 5th yr Degree in Computer Engineering, University of Padova, final grade: 110/110 cum laude (Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Informatica)
- Oct 2003 - Jul 2006: 3rd yr Degree in Information Engineering, University of Padova, final grade: 110/110 cum laude (Laurea in Ingegneria dell'Informazione)
- Jul 2003: Scientific High School Diploma, Liceo Scientifico "XXV Aprile", Portogruaro (VE), final grade: 100/100 (Esame di Stato - Indirizzo Scientifico)
Teaching
During my visit at the Department of Computer Science of Brown University, I was teaching assistant (together with Olya Ohrimenko) for the course CSCI 1580 Information Retrieval and Web Search taught by Prof. Eli Upfal, Spring 2010 and Spring 2011 editions.
In Padova, I was teaching assistant for the following introductory courses:
- Tutorato - Corso di Analisi Matematica 1 - Area Ing. Industriale - A.A. 2008/2009 (together with Federico Tramarin)
- Tutorato - Corso di Fondamenti di Informatica - Area Ing. Informazione - A.A. 2008/2009
- Tutorato - Corso di Fondamenti di Informatica 1 - Area Ing. Informazione - A.A. 2007/2008
- Tutorato - Corso di Fondamenti di Informatica - Ing. IE IEN - A.A. 2007/2008
- Tutorato - Il favoloso mondo di LaTeX
Service
- IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'11)
- IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'11)
- International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC'11)
- International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM'11)
- ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'11)
- ACM Transactions on Computation Theory (ToCT'10)
- International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'10)
- Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing (TGC'10)
- The Computer Journal (ComJ'09)
- IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'09)
- International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'09)
Publications
List from the DBLP
Journal papers
- A. Pettarin, A. Pietracaprina, G. Pucci
On the Expansion and Diameter of Bluetooth-Like Topologies
Theory of Computing Systems, 2013, 52(2), pp. 319-339
[PDF] [link]
Conference papers
- A. Pettarin, A. Pietracaprina, G. Pucci, E. Upfal
Tight Bounds on Information Dissemination in Sparse Mobile Networks
Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, 2011 (PODC'11), pp. 355-362
[PDF] [Slides, PDF] [arXiv] - P. Bertasi, A. Pettarin, M. Scquizzato, F. Silvestri
A Novel Resource-Driven Job Allocation Scheme for Desktop Grid Environments
Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing, 2010 (TGC'10), LNCS 6084, pp. 268-283
[PDF] [link] - A. Pettarin, A. Pietracaprina, G. Pucci
On the Expansion and Diameter of Bluetooth-Like Topologies
Proceedings of the 17th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, 2009 (ESA'09), LNCS 5757, pp. 528-539
[PDF] [Slides, PDF] [link]
Technical reports
- A. Pettarin, A. Pietracaprina, G. Pucci, E. Upfal
Infectious Random Walks
The results in this paper have been extended in "Tight Bounds on Information Dissemination in Sparse Mobile Networks" (see above).
[link]
Theses
- A. Pettarin
Graph Models of Information Spreading in Wireless Networks
PhD Thesis, 2012. Supervisors: G. Pucci jointly with A. Pietracaprina
[PDF] [Slides, PDF] - A. Pettarin
On the Diameter of Bluetooth-Based Ad Hoc Networks
5th year Thesis, 2008. Supervisors: A. Pietracaprina and G. Pucci
[PDF] [Slides, PDF] - A. Pettarin
DocTrivXlet: un'applicazione JavaME per la stampante multifunzione Ricoh Aficio 2051 (in Italian)
3rd year Thesis, 2006. Supervisor: M. Moro
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Awards and Fellowships
- Nov 2014: First Prize at the "Librinnovando 2014 Awards"
- Sep 2012: RIEFORUM fellowship to attend the International Summer School on Entrepreneurial Management and Innovation 2012.
- Jan 2011: "Fondazione Ing. Aldo Gini" fellowship to conduct research abroad
- Jan 2010: "Fondazione Ing. Aldo Gini" fellowship to conduct research abroad
- Dec 2008: "Premio Banca San Biagio", prize for 5th year Degree in Computer Engineering, awarded by a local bank
- Nov 2008: "Leonardo Melandri" fellowship to attend The 4th Bertinoro Workshop on Randomized Algorithms and Graphs
- Dec 2006: "Premio Banca San Biagio", prize for 3rd year Degree in Information Engineering, awarded by a local bank
- Dec 2003: "Premio Banca San Biagio", prize for the High School Diploma, awarded by a local bank
- Oct 2003: "Alfiere del Lavoro", silver medal of the (former) President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi awarded to the best 25 high school students of the year