Paolo Giaccone

Paolo Giaccone is a Full Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET) of Politecnico di Torino. He serves as Course Coordinator for the Master's Degree in Communications Engineering and contributes to teaching in the College of Electronic, Telecommunications and Physics Engineering. His research focuses on cloud computing, 5G networks, programmable data planes, WiFi-based crowd monitoring, and network softwarization.

His recent publications highlight edge computing, microservice orchestration, and resource optimization in cloud and network systems. Collaborations with researchers like Carla Chiasserini and Holger Karl dominate his work. He has received honors such as the Open badge Learning to Teach (L2T) and served as Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He advises PhD candidates including Antonio Calagna and Madhura Adeppady, and leads projects like SmartShires and TrialsNet for next-generation networks.