Fabrizio Grandoni

Fabrizio Grandoni is a Professor in approximation algorithms and Area Responsible at the Department of Innovative Technologies (DTI) of SUPSI. Previously, he held positions at institutions including the University of Rome Tor Vergata (2007–2011), Max Planck Institut für Informatik (Germany), and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He earned a Master’s (cum laude) and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, with a Marie-Curie Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute during his PhD.

His research focuses on algorithms design and analysis, particularly approximation algorithms, parameterized algorithms, distributed systems, dynamic algorithms, and fault-tolerant data structures. He has authored over 100 papers, co-authored with 80+ researchers, achieving 3,000+ citations and an h-index of 31.

Notable awards include the ERC Starting Grant (2011), Best Paper Award at STOC (2010), and the EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize (2017). He leads projects on network design, clustering algorithms, and optimization, and is affiliated with the IDSIA (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence).