Massimo Cafaro

Massimo Cafaro is an accomplished Associate Professor at the Department of Innovation Engineering at the University of Salento and holds the position of Director of the CINI Research Unit at the same university.

His expertise lies in the field of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Cloud and Grid Computing, Data Mining, and Big Data.

Massimo Cafaro completed his MSc in Computer Science at the University of Salerno and obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Bari.

He is affiliated with prestigious organizations such as IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and ACM, where he holds Senior Membership.

In addition, he serves as the Vice Chair of Regional Centers and is the Coordinator of the Technical Area on Data Intensive Computing for the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing.

As an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, Massimo Cafaro contributes significantly to the academic community.

With over 100 refereed papers in parallel, distributed, and cloud/grid computing, he is a prolific author in his field.

Massimo Cafaro's patent on distributed database technologies showcases his innovative contributions.

He is deeply involved in High Performance and Distributed computing, focusing on the theoretical and practical aspects, including the design and analysis of sequential, parallel, and distributed algorithms.