Startups
- 2020-: Co-founder, CEO and Director of Aeqora
Ltd, a University of Sheffield Spin-off Company providing mobility services
- 2012-: Co-founder and Scientific Advisor to The
Floow, a company providing telematics motor insurance solutions.
The Floow had a $69 million exit in 2022.
- 2007-: Co-founder and Director of K-Now
Technologies Ltd, a University of Sheffield Spin-off Company providing knowledge services
European Projects Directorships
I coordinated 4 EU projects practically without interruption between 2002 and 2019. Then Brexit came and I was no longer eligible to coordinate a project.
- 2016:2019: Director of SETA, a
13-partner Horizon 2020 European Project on large-scale ubiquitous data and service
for metropolitan mobility (€5.5m)
- 2012-2016: Director of WeSenseIt, a
14-partner FP7 European Project on Citizen Observatories of Water (€5.3m)
- 2006-2010: Director of X-Media, a
15-partner European Project on Knowledge Management over Large Scale Across Media (€9.9m)
- 2002-2005: Director of Dot.Kom, a
European Project on Information Extraction from Texts for Knowledge Management, (€3.5m)
About me
I grew up in North Western Italy, lived in several places until I
moved to the UK and lived there for over 20 years. Now I have moved back to NW Italy.
I am an academic; most of my time is spent doing research. I work on large-scale pervasive computing,
an area that sounds terribly boring until you discover that my job lets me fly drones and go to
music festivals for free.
I also teach awfully bright students. I teach advanced Web
Technologies, another topic that looks horribly boring until you discover it is about doing cool
things with Spies, Football, and Music Records.
Some of my undergrads have won competitions and even presented their results to the Prime
Minister.
Some of them have become PhD students and now are academics or researchers themselves. Others after
their PhDs
have become CEOs/CTOs and Chief Officers of companies we have created together. That probably means that
I am old, because only old people can boast about the great achievements that their children have in
life.
My passion is to work with mobile architectures and wearables to track human mobility. I have
developed apps that have been downloaded over a million times.
My research page detail these.
I also have
a personal blog where I describe some
of the things I do. It is rather limited because it is just related to personal rather than professional
interests, but you can find it useful.
I do quite a bit of travelling for work. If I do not reply to your emails, it is hopefully because I am somewhere rather exotic.
Oh, and in case you were wondering: I am dyslexic. This is why there are mistakes on these pages.
Dyslexia is sometimes a hindrance but helps me think differently. These occasional stumblings taught me
to fly.