Giovanni Merlino

Giovanni Merlino is an Associate Professor at the University of Messina, with a comprehensive background in computer and telecommunications engineering. Giovanni's academic journey includes roles as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and PostDoc research fellow, contributing to the H2020-funded project BEACON, focusing on federated clouds, SDN, OpenStack, and OpenDaylight. Giovanni also serves as a Teaching Fellow in Distributed Systems and has extensive experience as a teaching assistant and research fellow in various disciplines, including Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing. Since co-founding SmartMe.IO in April 2017, Giovanni has been involved in innovative projects, while earlier experience includes managing an HPC/Grid datacenter at Consorzio COMETA. Giovanni holds a PhD from Università di Catania and a Master of Engineering from Università degli Studi di Messina.