Fabrizio Messina, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics and Informatics
University of Catania
Via S. Sofia, 64 95126 Catania
messina AT dmi DOT unict DOT it
Tel. +39.095.7337.303
Office 302, building MII

About me

Since March 2018 I'm assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Catania, Italy.

I received the Ph.D. in Computer Science on 2009 from the Department of Mathematics and Informatics and I have been postodoctoral researcher until 2017 in the same department.

My main research interests concern Trust and Recommender systems for social networks and distributed systems, discrete-event simulations, distributed and parallel computing.

Affiliations

• March 2018 -- present: Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Catania, Italy.
• 2014 -- present: Founding member of the Society for Intelligent Systems (SIS).
• 2016 -- present: Founding member of the Autonomous and Robotic Systems Association (AURA).
• January 2018 - March 2018: Research Fellow, University of Derby hosted by Prof. Antonio Liotta, Director of the Data Science Centre of Derby.
• September 2017 - December 2017: Research Fellow, Eindhoven University of Technology hosted by Prof. Antonio Liotta
• June 2017 - August 2017: Research Fellow, T.E.I. of Thessaly, University of Applied Science of Thessaly hosted by Prof. Ilias Savvas
• November 2016: Research Fellow, T.E.I. of Thessaly, University of Applied Science of Thessaly hosted by Prof. Ilias Savvas
• May 2009 - June 2017: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Catania, Italy.

What's new

March 2018:

• My office is now located at room No. 302, second floor of the 2nd building (secondo blocco) of the Department of Mathematics and Informatics
• Special issue (deadline June 4 2018) on Recent trends in flocking control and communication for Unmanned vehicles, Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier). GEs: Dr. Fabrizio Messina, Prof. Pasquale De Meo (University of Messina Italy), Prof. A. Vasilakos (Innopolis University, Russia)