معرفی
Paolo Romano is a Senior Researcher at the Distributed Systems Group, INESC-ID, and an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering (2007) and has contributed extensively to research in distributed systems, transactional memory, and autonomic computing.
- PhD in Computer Engineering, Sapienza Rome University (2007)
- Master Degree in Computer Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata (2002), Summa Cum Laude
- Certificate of Advanced English, Cambridge University (1997)
His research interests span:
- Dependable Distributed Systems: Fault-tolerance in multi-tier systems, formal verification of distributed protocols, and reliable AI systems.
- Parallel/Distributed/High-Performance Computing: Transactional memory, GPU programming, and efficient AI/ML systems.
- Autonomic Systems: Self-optimization of complex systems and adaptive concurrency control schemes.
- Performance Modeling: Machine-learning-based prediction for complex systems and QoS in cloud platforms.
Scientific accolades include:
- Best Paper Award at ICAC 2014, ICDCS 2012, and NETYS 2013
- Best Paper Awards at IEEE Symposium on NCA 2008 and 2007
- Best INESC-ID Young Researcher (2011)
- Distinguished Member, INSTICC
He has supervised numerous PhD and MSc students, including current advisees Maria Casimiro, Daniel Castro, and Shady Alaa. Former students include Shady Issa (PostDoc at INESC-ID), Nuno Diegues (Software Engineer at Feedzai), and Diego Didona (PostDoc at EPFL). His research is supported by projects like ARISTOS, Cloud-TM, and Euro-TM, with total funding exceeding 2.4 million euros.
Paolo Romano is affiliated with the Distributed Systems Group at INESC-ID, a research laboratory associated with IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.



