Salvatore PontarelliView profile
Associate Professor
Salvatore Pontarelli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, specializing in high-speed hardware architectures for programmable network devices, hash-based data structures, and network dataplane programmability. His work bridges software and hardware with FPGA acceleration and stateful packet processing. Research focuses on Bloom filters, cuckoo tables, and network data plane optimization Collaborates with Cisco and Mellanox Technologies Contributions to Ethernet switching chips His publications include innovations in FPGA NICs (hXDP), eBPF/XDP hardware translation (eHDL), and practical network acceleration solutions. Recent work explores flow ranging and lightweight data plane monitoring. Scientific recognitions include OSDI'20 Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award ASPLOS'23 Distinguished Paper Award Currently teaches advanced networking and works on programmable hardware solutions. Office located at Sapienza University, Viale Regina Elena, 295 (Building E), 1st floor, room 105.