Luca Abeni

Luca Abeni is an Associate Professor at the ReTiS Lab (Real-Time Systems) of Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa. He graduated in Computer Engineering from the University of Pisa in 1998 and earned his PhD at Scuola Superiore S. Anna (1999-2002), focusing on real-time operating systems, scheduling algorithms, and QoS management. His career includes a visiting researcher role at Carnegie Mellon University (2000) and Oregon Graduate Institute (2001), followed by a full-time researcher position at the University of Trento's DISI department (2006-2017).

Research Interests include real-time systems, cloud computing, virtualization, containerization (e.g., RT-Kubernetes), Linux kernel optimization, fault tolerance, and scheduling algorithms. His work addresses temporal isolation in cloud/edge environments, energy-efficient real-time computing, and adaptive resource management.

Scientific Awards

• 2021 RTSS Influential Paper Award for 1998 paper on real-time scheduling

Notable Contributions involve Xen/KVM latency analysis, deadline-based scheduling, ARM big.LITTLE partitioning, and kernel bypass mechanisms. He developed tools like PROSIT for probabilistic real-time analysis and artifacts for reproducing experiments.