Antonio Manzalini

Antonio Manzalini received the M. Sc. Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico of Turin. In 1990 he joined CSELT, which then became Telecom Italia Lab. He started his activities on research and development of technologies and architectures for future optical networks. In this RTD avenue, he was actively involved in leading positions in several EURESCOM and EC funded Project (e.g. MWTN, LION, NOBEL). He chaired (during two consecutive Study Periods) two ITU-T Questions on transport networks. He is author of a book on Network Synchronization (for SDH) and his RTD results are published in about 80 papers. He has 5 patents on network and systems. In 2003 he was appointed as member of the Scientific Committee of Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya. In 2006 he led the CASCADAS project dealing with autonomic computing and networking. In 2008 he has been awarded with the International Certification of Project Manager by PMI. He was member of technical and program committee of several IEEE Conferences. He is leading the activity 'Smart Networks at the Edge' funded by the European Institute of Technology (EIT). He is currently joining the Strategy Dept. of Telecom Italia (Future Centre - Innovative Architectures) addressing mainly RTD activities concerning future Telco-ICT networks and services technologies (e.g., Software Defined Networks, Network Function Virtualization, Autonomic/Cognitive, self-* networks).