The CIS Department invites you to join us as we welcome Dr. Simone Silvestri on Monday, March 7, 2022 at 11:00am. Dr. Simone Silvestri is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Kentucky. Before joining UK, Dr. Silvestri worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2010 from the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Dr. Silvestri's research interests are in Cyber-Physical-Human Systems, Internet of Things, Smart Grids, Terrestrial and Aerial Mobile Networks, and Network Management. His research is funded by several national and international agencies such as NIFA, NATO and the NSF, and he received the NSF CAREER award in 2020. He published more than 70 papers in international journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE ICDCS. He served in the Organizing and Technical Program Committee of several international conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, IEEE SECON and IEEE GLOBECOM.
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