CV

General Information

Full Name Alessandro Tundo
Languages Italian (native), English (fluent), Spanish (basic)

Education

  • 11/2020-05/2024
    PhD, Computer Science
    University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
    • Thesis title: "Adapt and Automate: Efficiently Monitoring in the Cloud Continuum"
    • Thesis advisor: Prof. Leonardo Mariani
    • Final grade: excellent with honorable mention
  • 2016-2018
    M.Sc., Computer Science
    University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
    • Thesis advisor: Prof. Leonardo Mariani
    • Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
  • 2013-2016
    B.Sc., Computer Science
    University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
    • Thesis advisor: Prof. Marco Palmonari
    • Final grade: 110/110 cum laude

Experience

  • 05/2024-now
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • 09/2022-01/2024
    Visiting PhD Student
    Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • 01/2020-12/2023
    IT Consultant
    Milan, Italy
    • I provided consultancy services for the design and development of software systems in the food delivery domain, fashion industry, and e-commerce.
  • 01/2020-11/2020
    Research Scholarship Holder
    University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
    • The research activity entitled aims to extend and enhance the main functionalities of the VARYS framework.
    • VARYS is a technology agnostic model-driven Monitoring-as-a-Service framework for the Cloud.
    • The research work was supervised by Prof. Leonardo Mariani.
  • 01/2020-10/2020
    Independent Researcher
    Quisque Srl., Milan, Italy
    • I worked on the design and optimization of DevOps software development cycles.
  • 01/2019-01/2020
    Research Assistant (Assegnista di Ricerca)
    University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
    • The research activity was focused on designing approaches and techniques for application monitoring, anomaly detection and self-healing in Cloud Computing systems.
    • The research work was carried out first the scope of the LEARN - Learning from Failing and Passing Executions at the Speed of Internet project (8 months) and next for the GAUSS - Governing Adaptive Unplanned Systems of Systems project (4 months).
    • The research work was supervised by Prof. Leonardo Mariani.
  • 01/2017-12/2018
    Research Scholarship Holder
    Consortium GARR, Rome, Italy
    • The research activity involved cloud-native architectures for Open Educational Resources (OER) and integrations into Learning Management Systems (LMS).
    • The research work was supervised by PRof. Daniela Micucci (University of Milano-Bicocca) and by the GARR Scientific and Technical Committee.
    • In particular, I worked on the design and development of a new version of the WikiToLearn platform.
    • WikiToLearn was a wiki-based open source project for collaborative textbooks writing under the KDE Community umbrella.
  • 12/2015-02/2017
    Full Stack Developer
    2Program Srl., Milan, Italy
    • Design and development of web applications and CMS from scratch.

Services

  • Program Committee
    • PC member (Artifact Evaluation Track), International Conference on Software Engineer (ICSE) 2025.
    • PC member (Main Track), International Web Information Systems Engineering Conference (WISE) 2024.
  • Journal Reviewer
    • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
  • Sub Reviewer
    • IEEE CLOUD 2024
    • IEEE EDGE 2024

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • Best Short-Paper Award @ 12th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and Software Ecosystems
  • 2019
    • Winner team (People's choice prize) @ HackTheCloud
  • 2018
    • Winner team (2nd prize) @ HackTheCloud
  • 2017
    • Winner team @ Hack.Developers

Presentation and Talks

  • 2024
    • ReProbe: An Architecture for Reconfigurable and Adaptive Probes | IEEE ICSA 2024, Hyderabad, India.
  • 2023
    • An Energy-Aware Approach to Design Self-Adaptive AI-based Applications on the Edge | IEEE/ACM ASE 2023, Luxemburg City, Luxemburg.
    • Self-Adaptive Sustainable Systems at the Edge | AI/ML in the Era of Climate Change MS.C. course @ TU Wien, Vienna, Austria (Guest lecture).
  • 2022
    • Towards Self-Adaptive Peer-To-Peer Monitoring for Fog Environments | IEEE/ACM SEAMS 2022, Pittsburg, USA (online).
  • 2021
    • DFaaS: Decentralized Function-as-a-Service for Federated Edge Computing | IEEE CloudNet 2021, Cookeville, USA (online).
  • 2020
    • Declarative Dashboard Generation | GAUSS Workshop (IEEE ISSRE 2020), Coimbra, Portugal (online).
  • 2019
    • VARYS: A Technology Agnostic Model-Driven Monitoring-as-a-Service Framework for the Cloud | IEEE/ACM ESCE/FSE 2019, Tallin, Estonia.
  • 2018
    • Automazione e monitoring: la cultura DevOps attraverso due casi di studio [Invited Talk] | Workshop GARR, Rome, Italy.