Tommaso Melodia

Speaker Bio

Tommaso Melodia is the William L. Smith Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. He is also the Founding Director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems and was the Director of Research for the PAWR Project Office. He received his Laurea (integrated BS and MS) from the University of Rome - La Sapienza and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He received several best paper awards, including at IEEE Infocom 2022 and IEEE Globecom 2024. Prof. Melodia is the Editor in Chief for Computer Networks and a co-founder of the 6G Symposium, and served as the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE Infocom, and General Chair for ACM MobiHoc, among others. Prof Melodia is an Executive Board Member of the AI-RAN Alliance, a board member of the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, and a member of the research council of the ATIS NextG Alliance. Prof. Melodia’s research on modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of wireless networked systems has been funded by many US government and industry entities. Prof. Melodia is the founder of several technology spinoffs.