Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D.
Department of Engineering for Innovation
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Via per Monteroni
73100 Lecce, Italy
Last update: February 16, 2025
Position
Associate Professor
Dept. of Engineering for Innovation
University of Salento, Italy
National Scientific qualification as full professor in the Italian higher education system, for the disciplinary field of 09/H1 - Information processing systems. (Academic Recruitment Field 09/H - Computer engineering, according to the national classification)
National Scientific qualification as full professor in the Italian higher education system, for the disciplinary field of 01/B1 - Informatics. (Academic Recruitment Field 01/B - Informatics, according to the national classification)
Research Interests
My research is focused around Parallel, Distributed and Grid/Cloud/P2P Computing. In particular, I am interested to the design and analysis of sequential, parallel and distributed algorithms in the context of data mining, machine learning, deep learning, security and cryptography, resource, data and information management in Grid/Cloud/P2P environments.
Affiliations
Research Labs
I am the head of the HPC Lab and the CAMPI Lab at the University of Salento,Italy.
Trivia
My Erdős number is 3 (Paul Erdős -> Douglas Robert Stinson -> Barbara Masucci -> Massimo Cafaro). In my spare time I do T'ien Shan P'ai Kung-Fu, spin and mix house tracks.
To prospective international students
Sorry, no summer internships are available in my department (and I apologize for not responding to such email requests).
To my students
Sorry, requests for additional exam trials will not be considered (and I apologize for not responding to such email requests).