Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum of

Mario Baldi

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Technical University of Turin, Computer and Control Engineering Department, February 1998.
• Professional Engineer licensure from Technical University of Turin, January 1994.
• M. S. Degree (Laurea) summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering major) from Technical University of Turin, May 1993.
• High School: degree in Classical Studies from Liceo Classico Silvio Pellico, Cuneo, Italy, June 1987.
  

Languages

Professional Positions

Fellow, Pensando Systems, Inc., Milpitas, CA, 2019-2021.

Associate Professor of Computer Networks at Department of Computer and Control Engineering of Technical University of Turin, Italy, since October 2002 (tenured since October 2005), currently on leave.

Data Scientist Director with the CTO Office at Symantec, Mountain View, CA - 2015.

Principal Member of Technical Staff with the CTO Office at Narus, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, from June 2012 to December 2014.

Principal Architect, Senior Member of Technical Staff at Embrane, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, from October 2010 to May 2012.

Vice Dean and Project Manager of the Sino-Italian Engineering Campus, at Tongji University, Shanghai, China, from September 2006 to July 2010 (resident in Shanghai since September 2007).

Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at Department of Computer and Control Engineering of Technical University of Turin, Italy, from November 1997 to September 2002.

Professional Activities and Appointments

p4.org Architecture Workgroup, Co-chair, since 2022.

University of Verona, reviewer for finding proposals submitted to the program "Bando Joint Projects - JP07", 2007.

University of Trento (Department of information Engineering and Science), Consulting Professor at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, Trento, Italy since 2006.

Croatian Ministry for Science Education and Sport, reviewer for funding proposals, since 2006.

Association of Medical Doctors of the Province of Turin (Ordine dei Medici Chirurghi e degli Odontoriatri della Provincia di Torino), consultant for the realization of the information and communication system of the new headquarters, since 2006.

ToPIX (Torino Piemonte Internet Exchange), member of the Program Development Committee, 2006-2007.

Technical University of Turin, Control and Computer Engineering Department, Coordinator of Departmental Research Laboratories, 2003-2007.

Technical University of Turin, International Relations Office, support in the establishment and development of relationships with Chinese Institutions, since 2006.

Technical University of Turin, School of Information and Communication Technology, member of the Research and Teaching Laboratory Committee, 2003-2007.

Internet Protocols and Network Architecture Laboratory (LIPAR), Technical University of Turin and Istituto Superiore Mario Boella: scientific committee member, 2003 - present.

Agenzia delle Entrate del Ministero del Tesoro (Revenue Agency, Italian Ministry of Treasury), consultant for the optimization of nationwide computer network, 2004.

Atlanet S.p.A., survey of Voice over IP infrastructure to assess the extendibility of assets' lifetime, 2004.

Network for the Italian Public Administration, consultant for the preparation of a European call for tender, 2003. 

Ministero dell'Istruzione, Universit� e Ricerca (MIUR, Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research), reviewer for funding proposals, 2003.

Technical University of Turin, member of the technical committee for the design, deployment, and evolution of the institution's campus network, 2003.

TrustedFlow Systems, Inc., Chicago, Il, Co-founder, co-invent the technology, protect intellectual property, commercialize the patents- 2000-present

Research Positions and Activities

2001-2007: Head of the Computer Networks Group (NetGroup) at the Department of Computer Engineering of Politecnico di Torino. During such period the group grew from including only one PostDoc to including one Assistant Professor, six PhD students, one PostDoc, and one researcher.

April 1999, April 1998: Visiting Synchrodyne, Inc., New York, NY. Reference: Dr. Y. Ofek.

Summer 1998: Visiting scholar at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, California. Reference Dr. A. Albanese. A grant from CNR (the Italian National Research Council) financed the visit.

November 1994 - November 1997: Ph.D. student in Computer and System Engineering at the Computer and Control Engineering Department of Technical University of Turin, tutor Prof. S. Gai. Studies were financed by a scholarship from Politecnico di Torino.

April - May and July - September, 1997: Visiting Ph.D. student at the Computer Science Department at Columbia University in New York, New York. Reference: Dr. Y. Ofek and Dr. B. Yener. A scholarship from Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. (CSELT) covered travel and living expenses.

CSI Piemonte scholarship for research and experimentation at the Computer and Control Engineering Department of Technical University of Turin. July 1994 - July 1995.

Digital Equipment Corporation scholarship for research and experimentation at the Computer and Control Engineering Department of Technical University of Turin. March - June 1994.

Graduation thesis in the framework of the E³ Project at the Computer and Control Engineering Department of Technical University of Turin. September 1992 - May 1993.

Research areas include network services for cloud computing and network virtualization, internetworking, high performance switching, optical networking, quality of service, multimedia over packet networks, voice over IP, trust in distributed software execution, and computer networks in general.

Funded Research Projects

2014-2015: Wi-Fact (WIreless FACTory and beyond) - training subproject; proposal preparation, project lead and management, including selection of instructors and operations. Funded up to 195 K�, 45 K� of which assigned to Politecnico di Torino, by the Italian Ministry for University and Reaseach (MiUR) in the context of a program for ICT-related research and development in the Piedmont region. The training program includes factory automation concepts and solutions, computer network and wireless network technologies, product lifecycle. In the companion research subproject Mario Baldi works on solutions to provide reliable and dependable wireless communications and network monitoring solutions.

2013-2014: MOVER (Multi-�user Optimized Virtual Edge Router); leading proposal preparation, coordination of partners in project execution, management of Politecnico�s participation, and technical contribution. Selected by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MAE) and the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry for Industry, Commerce and Labor, with a 300 K� budget, the Italian partners are funded with 54 K� of which 11 K� assigned to Politecnico di Torino. NetGroup�s contribution focuses on the design and implementation of the virtualization framework for a programmable edge router supporting per-user software configuration, the network application development environment and the infrastructure for the user authentication and network application execution and portability.

2013-2015: SECURED (SECURity at the network EDge); technical contribution. Funded by the European Commission as a STREP Project under the ICT Programme, contract FP7-ICT-611458. NetGroup's contribution focuses on designing and prototyping a network node architecture providing a trusted and virtualized execution environment allowing different actors (e.g. single users, corporate ICT managers, network providers) to install on-demand and execute multiple security applications on the network edge device to protect the traffic of a specific user.

2013-2015: UNIFY (Unifying Cloud and Carrier Networks); technical contribution. Funded by the European Commission as an IP Project under the ICT Programme, contract CNECT-ICT-619609. NetGroup's contribution focuses on contributing to the design and prototyping a universal network node capable of executing both networking and processing functionalities to be deployed across the whole networking and cloud infrastructure.

2010-2012: BESOS (Bandwidth efficiency and Energy Saving through sub-lambda Optical Switching); proposal preparation, management of Politecnico�s participation, and technical contribution. Funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Reaseach (MIUR) in the context of the Relevant National Interest Projects (PRIN) Programme up to 150 K� of which 34 K� assigned to Politecnico di Torino. NetGroup�s contribution focuses on studying control plane solutions for reducing energy consumption in time-driven switched networks.

2006 - 2009: RE-TRUST (Remote EnTrusting by RUn-time Software auThentication); proposal preparation and management of Politecnico di Torino's participation. Funded by the European Commission as a STREP Project under IST (Information Society Technologies) Programme contract FP6-021168 up to 1.55 M� of which 319 K� assigned to Politecnico di Torino.

2006 - 2009: MEADOW (MEsh  ADaptive hOme Wireless networks); proposal preparation, management of NetGroup's participation, and technical contribution. Funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Reaseach (MIUR) in the context of the Research Fostering Fund (FAR) Programme up to 2.41 M� of which 117 K� assigned to the NetGroup.

2006-2007: HARRISON; technical contribution as a Consulting Researcher to Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB). Funded by the European Commission as the selected bid to the 3^rd Galileo Joint Undertaking Call - Galileo Time and Synchronization Applications contract GJU/06/8068 up to 1.9 M� of which 120 K� assigned to ISMB.

2006-2007: OSATE (Optics in Switching Architectures: Theory and Experimentation); technical contribution. Funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Reaseach (MIUR) in the
context of the Relevant National Interest Projects (PRIN) Programme up to 149 K� of which 35 K� assigned to Politecnico di Torino. NetGroup�s contribution focuses on experimentation of ultra-scalable switching architectures.

2005-2006: QUASAR (Quality and Controllability of Communication Services over Heterogeneous Networks); proposal preparation, management of Politecnico di Torino's participation, and technical contribution. Funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Reaseach (MIUR) in the context of the Relevant National Interest Projects (PRIN) Programme up to 144 K� of which 28 K� assigned to Politecnico di Torino.

2004-2006: E-NEXT (Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies); proposal preparation, management of Politecnico di Torino's participation, and technical contribution. Funded by the European Commission as a Network of Excelence (NoE) under IST (Information Society Technologies) Programme contract FP6-506869 up to 2.87 M� of which 38 K� assigned to Politecnico di Torino.

Research Contracts

2009: Service Access on Highway VANETs, Cisco Systems, Cisco Research Award, 55 k$

2007: Advancing High-performance Packet Processing, Cisco Systems, University Research Program (URP), 120 k$

2006: IP networking evolution, Telecom Italia Labs, 10 K�

2005: Experimentation with e-presence services over IPv6 networks, CSI Piemonte, 41 K�

2003: Prototypal implementation of a remote software authentication system, Microsoft Research, 9 K�

2003: IP traffic classification and processing, Telecom Italia Labs, 30 K�

2002: Advanced Networking Services, Telecom Italia Labs, 50 K�

Teaching Positions 

2008-2010: Guest Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Spring 2005: Visiting Professor at Institut de Technologie du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

Fall 2004: Honorary Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, at Bundoora (Melbourne), Victoria.

Fall 1998: Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL.

Teaching and Seminars

Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

• Computer network technologies and services, in Italian and in English, academic years 2012/13 until 2019/20;
• Computer networks, academic years 2002/03 until 2005/06, 2012/13 until 2014/15, and 2019/20;
  
• Routing Architectures and Protocols, since academic yaer 2013/14;
  
• Communication Networks, at PoliTong, Tongji University, Shanghai, since academic years 2007/08 through 2009/10;
• Computer Architecture, at PoliTong, Tongji University, Shanghai, academic years 2008/09 and 2009/10;
• Internet: Architecture and Protocols, academic year 2006/07;
• Network Technologies and Services, academic year 2006/07;
• Local and Metropolitan Area Network Design, academic years 2003/04 until 2006/07 (two parallel editions, in Italian and in English, during academic year 2006/07);
• MasteringIP - Things you wanted to know about IP networks (and no one ever told you) at University of Trento, academic year 2005/06;
• Computer Networks, distance learning curriculum, academic years 2002/03 unti 2006/07;
• Computer Networks for Multimedia Applications, Engineering curriculum in Moviemaking, multimedia, and related technologies, academic year 2005/06;
• Computer Networks, curriculum in Computer Engineering,  academic years 2002/03 until 2005/06;
• Internet and Communication Protocols, academic years 2002/03 until 2005/06;
• Infrastructures and services for wide area networks, academic years 2003/04 until 2005/06;
• Basis of Network Technologies at Institut de Technologie du Cambodge, 2005;
• Interactive Multimedia Networking at La Trobe University, 2004;
• Computer Networks II, academic year 2002/03;
• Fundamentals of Computer Engineering and Introduction to the Internet, Master in Ergonomics, COREP, Technical University of Turin, 2002;
• Computer Networks, curriculum in Business Engineering, Technical University of Turin, 2002;
• Fundamentals of Computer Engineering, Master in Ergonomics, 2002;
• Computer Communication Networks, Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering - Computer Science of the University of Illinois at Technical University of Turin, 1999;
• Introduction to Computer Networks, Master in Telematics and Multimedia Applications, COREP, Technical University of Turin, 1996 to 1998;
• Telecommunications Networks I, Master in Telematics and Multimedia Applications, COREP, Technical University of Turin, 1995 to 1998;
• Protocols, Master in Information Technology and Telecommunications, COREP, Technical University of Turin, academic year 1995/96;
• Object Oriented Programming, Master in Information Technology and Telecommunications, COREP, Technical University of Turin, academic year 1995/96.

Lecturer in the following graduate courses at Technical University of Turin:

• Computer network technologies and services, in Italian and in English, since academic years 2020/21;
• Parallel Computing and Complex Architectures, 2002;
• Computer Networks II, 2001, and 1997 to 1998;
• Algorithms and Advanced Programming, 2001;
• Operating Systems, 1997 through 1998;
• Computer Science Basics, academic years 1997/98 and 1998/99.

Instructor for the following undergraduate courses at Technical University of Turin:

• Computer Networks, 1994 through 1998;
• Digital Circuits, 1994;
• Computer Science Basics III, 1993.

Teaching assistant for the following graduate courses at Technical University of Turin:

• Operating Systems, 1994 through 1997;
• Computer Networks II, 1994 through 1997;
• Computer Science Basics, academic year 1994.

Academic year 1992/93: teaching assistant fellowship for students of Technical University of Turin.

Video course "Computer Networks II" produced and distributed by Consorzio Nettuno, Rome, Italy and being used in undergraduate distance learning curricula throughout Italy. Filmed in 2003. Distributed and broadcasted since 2003.

Professional Training

• Scuola Superiore Guglielmo Reiss Romoli (since 1995) in L'Aquila, Italy,
• Teach s.r.l. (since 1996) in Milano, Italy, and
• Elea S.p.A.(from 1993 to 1995) in Ivrea, Italy,

on various computer networks and software engineering topics.

Academic seminars, tutorials, invited talks, and panels

• "Von Neumann vs. Programmable Logic Smart NICs: Which is the Dead End?", Panel at Hot Interconnects, virtual, August 2021.
  
• "Servizi distribuiti nei Data Center: perché, dove e come," IT Infrastructure Day, Milano, Italy, April 2020.
  
• "Exposing Data Plane Programmability on Turn-key Network Devices," Cisco Internet Technology Exchange (ITX) Workshop, New York (NY, USA), May 2018.
  
• "Exporting Programmability on Turn-key Switching Platforms," P4/SDN Workshop, Politecnico di Milano, Milano (Italy), Feb. 2018.
• Panel, P4 Developer Day, Stanford University (CA, USA), June 2017.
  
• "Big Data: its appeal and diverse applications encountered throughout a professional experience," University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport (CT, USA), March 2017.
• "Time for a Greener Internet,"
  
• Southeast University, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing (China), Nov. 2009.
  
• Cisco Systems, Research and Development Co., Shanghai (China), May 2009.
• "A Routing Solution for Service Access in Highway VANET," City University of New York, New York (NY, USA), Nov. 2008.
• "Pipeline forwarding" at 
• Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy (NY, USA), March 2008;
• School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing (China), Dec. 2007.
• "Interactive Multimedia Networking" at 
  • IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 07), Aveiro (Portugal), July 2007.
  • 5^th IEEE International Symposim on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2005), Athens (Greece), Dec. 2005.
  • IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL 2005), Zagreb (Croatia), June 2005; 
  • IEEE International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2003), Split, Dubrovnik (Croatia), Ancona, Venezia (Italy), Oct. 2003;
  • IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (CSN 2003), Benalmadena, Spain, Sep. 2003.
• "MPLS - The importance of offering the right solution at the right moment.
  Timeliness, benefits, and deployment from the origins, to ATM, to Optical Networks" (Motivations, basic mechanisms, and features - b&w, further details) at 
• IEEE Tutorials Now�, available on-line since Jan. 2008.
• 2006 IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco (CA, USA), Nov. 2006
• IEEE Networks 2006, New Delhi (India), Nov. 2006.
• 2005 IEEE International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2005), Split (Croatia), Sep. 2005.
• "MPLS Traffic Engineering" at 2002 IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2002), Dallas, Texas, Oct. 2002.
• Time-Driven Priority Scheduling: operating principles, benefits, and implementation," at
  • La Trobe University, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 2004.
  • Melbourne University, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 2004.
• "The TrustedFlow Protocol: Idiosyncratic Signatures for Authenticated Remote Execution" at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, Mar. 2004.
• "End-to-end Delay of Videoconferencing over Packet Switched Networks" at 
  • International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, California, Aug. 1998.
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, Sep. 1996.
• "Ritardo percepito dall'utente nella videoconferenza su reti a commutazione di pacchetto" at Electronic Engineering Department, Technical University of Turin, Torino, Oct. 1996.

Keynote addresses

• "Today's Big Data Ubiquity - A personal experience across various areas and Companies," 17th KOCSEA Technical Symposium, Vienna, Virginia, Nov. 2016.
  
• "Trusted Remote Execution - Relevance, Possible Solutions, and the RE-TRUST Project," 3rd Workshop of the International Society for Scientific Innovation (ISSI 2009), Beijing, China, Oct. 2009.
• "End-to-end Quality of Service - Putting Together Wired Backbones, Wireless Links and Mobile Terminals," International Symposium on Future Mobile Communication Technology (FMCT), Chongqing, China, Oct. 2009.

Other Academic Offices

Committee for International Student Mobility, School of Computer, Movie, and Mechatronic Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (Technical University of Turin), Chair since December 2012.

BSc programme in Information Technology Engineering at the Sino-Italian Campus, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Coordinator, 2006-2010.

Scientific Committee of the Master in Networking and Security at Telecom Italia Learning Services (TILS), member since 2003.

Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Advances in Network Systems Architecture," IEEE Networks Magazine, published in July 2007. 

Editorial Board of the Journal of Communications Software and Systems (JCOMSS), IEEE Communications Society, member since 2005.

Editorial board of the SPIE Optical Networks Magazine, Kluwer Academic Publisher, since 2003.

Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Dynamic Optical Networking: around the Corner or Light Years Away?", Optical Networks Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 5, Sep./Oct. 2003.

Technical Program Committee of several conferences, including IEEE Infocom, IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Symposium on Optical Networking in association to the IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM), International Workshop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks (QoSIP), IEEE International Symposium on Autonomus Decentralized Systems (ISADS), International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services (QoFIS).

PhD Thesis External Review Committee of the International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technology of Trento, Italy, 2004 - present.

Other Experience 

Cundy's Harbor Volunteer Fire Department, Firefighter and Rescue Driver, Harpswell, ME, 2018-present.

Patents 

35 patents issued by the United States Patent Office in the field of networking and security.
One patent issued by the European Patent Office in the field of high performance networking.
One pending application to the United States Patent Office in the fields of high performance networking and security.

Publications:

Books
Journals
Book Chapters
Magazines
Conferences and Workshops
Technical Reports
Patents
Ph.D. Dissertation
Graduation Thesis

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