Damiano Carra

Dr. Damiano Carra serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Verona, with a future promotion to Full Professor scheduled for October 1, 2025. His academic appointment falls under the IINF-05/A Information Processing Systems sector, with research aligned with ERC classifications PE6_2 (Distributed systems, parallel computing, sensor networks) and PE7_8 (Communication networks, IoT).

His research interests span two primary domains:

• Data Intensive Scalable Computing - focusing on analysis, evaluation and design of large-scale parallel systems with emphasis on Big Data processing and Cloud Computing
• Networking Systems - specializing in protocol design, performance evaluation, network measurement, and overlay networks

Dr. Carra maintains active research groups including the Big Data Analytics team working with spatio-temporal datasets and the INdAM Research Unit at the University of Verona. His work has been published in prestigious journals including IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, as well as presented at major conferences such as IEEE Infocom, IEEE Cloud, and IEEE BigData.

He currently leads multiple research projects including:

• Securing Decentralized Finance and Remote Healthcare Systems - SHIELD (starting 10/22/24)
• Novel Methodologies and Tools for Next Generation Cyber Ranges - NOMEN (starting 5/21/24)
• PRIN PNRR 2022 - Joint Communication and Sensing: CSI-Based Sensing for Future Wireless Networks (starting 11/30/23)

Administratively, Dr. Carra serves as Chair of Esaminatori ECDL, Referent for Third Mission in Computer Science, and holds membership on multiple university committees including the Faculty Board of PhD in Computer Science, Computer Science Teaching Committee, and Mathematics and Data Science Teaching Committee. He also serves as Responsabile del Test Center for the ECDL Test Centre.