Alessandro Panconesi

Current institutional responsibilities:

• Full professor, Computer Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome

Awards:

• 2019 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize

• ACM Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award, 1992

• Google Focused Award 2014, 2018

• Google Faculty Research Award 2010, 2012

• IBM Faculty Award 2009

• Yahoo! Research Faculty Award 2007, 2009, 2010

• Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellowship

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, Cornell University

• Laurea in Mathematics cum Laude, Sapienza University of Rome

A long story short: After graduating from Cornell (and a brief stint at Princeton), I moved back to Europe to witness the strange demise of a glorious, albeit sometimes cruel and unforgiving, civilisation. Before joining Sapienza as a full professor, I held research and teaching positions at CWI Amsterdam, Freie and Humboldt Universität in Berlin, BRICS (University of Åhrus), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and University of Bologna. I have also had the privilege of being an academic guest for prolonged visits at Max Planck Institüt fur Informatik, KTH Stockholm, ETH Zürich, and Université Paris Diderot.