Full Professor
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)
- Componente Commissione Strategie per le Tecnologie dell'Informazione
- Coordinator of Interdepartmental Center SmartData@PoliTO - Big Data and Data Science Laboratory
- Member of Interdepartmental Center SmartData@PoliTO - Big Data and Data Science Laboratory
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Profile
Research interests
Biography
Marco Mellia graduated with PhD in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering in 2001. He is a full professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where he coordinates the SmartData@PoliTO centre on Big Data, Machine Learning and Data Science.
In 2002 he visited the Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratories in Burlingame, CA, working at the IP Monitoring Project (IPMON). In 2011, 2012, 2013, he collaborated with Narus Inc in Sunnyvale, CA, working on traffic monitoring and cyber-security system design. In 2015 and 2016 he visited Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA, working on cloud monitoring platforms.
Prof. Mellia has co-authored over 250 papers published in international journals and presented in leading conferences, all of them in the area of communication networks. He holds 13 patents.
He won the IRTF ANR Prize at IETF-88, and best paper awards at IEEE P2P'12, ACM CoNEXT'13, IEEE ICDCS'15. He participated in the program committees of several conferences, including
ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM IMC, IEEE Infocom, IEEE Globecom and IEEE ICC. He is
Area Editor of ACM CCR, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and Elsevier Computer Networks. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
His research interests are in the area of Internet monitoring, users' characterization, cybersecurity, and big data analytics applied to different areas.
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Awards and Honors
- BEST PAPER AWARD conferred by IEEE P2P 2012, United States (2012)
- ACM CoNEXT Best Short Paper Award conferred by ACM CoNEXT - International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, United States (2013)
- Applied Networking Research Prize conferred by Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), United States (2013)
- Best Paper Award IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems conferred by IEEE, United States (2015)
Fellowships
- Fellow - IEEE, Stati Uniti (2020-2100)
IEEE Fellow
Editorial boards
- COMPUTER NETWORKS (2019-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT (2014-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
- IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING (2014-2018), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
- COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW (2012-), Director
Management or scientific roles in Research Institutes
- Politecnico di TORINO - Politecnico di TORINO (2017-), Coordinatore del centro
Conferences
- Performance 2021, Participation to the organizing committee
- Performance 2020, Participation to the organizing committee
- ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Workshop on Network Meets AI & ML (NetAI 2020), Program committee
- ACM CoNEXT, Steering commitee
- ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks (Big-DAMA 2018), Program chair
- IEEE Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2017), Program chair
- ACM SIGCOMM 2017 Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks (Big-DAMA 2017), Program chair
- ACM CoNEXT (1/1/2017-15/12/2017), Program chair
- IEEE Infocom - Demo and Poster Chair, Program chair
Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico
- Visiting Researcher, presso Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) (15/6/2019-31/7/2019)
- Visiting Researcher, presso Narus, Inc. (14/6/2012-15/8/2014)
- Visiting Researcher, presso Narus, Inc. (7/7/2011-8/9/2011)
Non-commercial collaboration agreements
- Accordo attuativo dell'Accordo quadro di cooperazione strategica tra il Politecnico di Torino e la Fondazione Links "Piattaforma Digital Revolution", (2022-2024) - Responsabile contrattuale
Non-commercial collaboration agreements - Accordo Attuativo tra il Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni DET e il Consortium GARR, (2021-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Non-commercial collaboration agreements
Teaching
PhD Boards
- INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2017/2018 (34. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2016/2017 (33. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2015/2016 (32. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2014/2015 (31. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2013/2014 (30. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA, 2012/2013 (29. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Courses of Study Boards
- Collegio di Ingegneria Elettronica, delle Telecomunicazioni e Fisica (ETF). Componente invitato
- Collegio di Ingegneria Informatica, del Cinema e Meccatronica. Componente
Teachings
Master of Science
- ICT for smart mobility. A.A. 2022/23, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2017/18, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2018/19, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2019/20, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2020/21, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2021/22, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2022/23, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Titolare del corso
- ICT in transport systems. A.A. 2017/18, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Titolare del corso
- ICT in transport systems. A.A. 2018/19, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Titolare del corso
- ICT in transport systems. A.A. 2019/20, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Titolare del corso
- ICT in transport systems. A.A. 2020/21, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Titolare del corso
- ICT in transport systems. A.A. 2021/22, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Dati, algoritmi e le frontiere dell'informatica - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Titolare del corso
- Laboratori di internet e comunicazioni. A.A. 2017/18, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Titolare del corso
- Laboratori di internet e comunicazioni. A.A. 2018/19, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratorio di internet. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Titolare del corso
- Laboratorio di internet. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Titolare del corso
- Laboratorio di internet. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratorio di internet. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Research fields
Research groups
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- MANAGE 5.0 - MANufacturing Automotive Green Evolution 5.0, (2022-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
PNRR – Complementary Plan - Reading (&) Machine. La promozione della lettura verso il futuro, (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Corporate-funded and donor-funded research - PIMCITY: BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION PERSONAL DATA PLATFORMS, (2019-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - ICT - Centro di Competenza Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni e Intelligenza Artificiale Torino, (2018-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Regionally funded research - MONROE - Measuring Mobile Broadband Networks in Europe, (2015-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - ICT - MPLANE-AN INTELLIGENT MEASUREMENTE PLANE FOR FUTURE NETWORK AND APPLICATION MANAGMENT, (2012-2015) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - VII PQ - COOPERATION - ICT - Caratterizzazione di traffico a livello trasporto: analisi e modelli di flussi dati e real time, (2006-2008) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- Framework Agreement tra Polito e HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES , (2021-2031) - Personale interno di riferimento
Partnership Agreements - Rinnovo Convenzione dipartimentale DET per la creazione della Monroe Alliance, (periodo sconosciuto) - Responsabile Scientifico
Departmental agreements - Characterization of Quality of Experience in Mobile Networks, (2022-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Network Performance & Video, (2021-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Attività di supporto all’implementazione del piano di Compagnia di San Paolo Sistema Torino scrl di aggiornamento delle infrastrutture IT, (2020-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - AI-Assisted Network Security, (2020-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Progressing WP3 CARS Urban Mobility management and new concepts, (2019-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - MODELLI STATISTICI, DATA ANALYTICS E MACHINE LEARNING”, “FOG COMPUTING E OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORKING” e “DESIGN E IMPLEMENTAZIONE DI FUNZIONALITÀ FIRMWARE AVANZATE”, (2019-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Convenzione dipartimentale Politecnico di Torino DET per la creazione della Monroe Alliance , (2019-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Departmental agreements - WP3 CARS Urban Mobility management and new concepts, (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - MODELLI STATISTICI, DATA ANALYTICS E MACHINE LEARNING - FOG COMPUTING E OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORKING, (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Progetto N. 4 - Recurrent Neural Networks Applied to network and service data, (2017-2017) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research
Supervised PhD students
- Luca Gioacchini. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 37, 2021-in progress)
- Nikhil Jha. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 36, 2020-in progress)
Research subject: Privacy preserving analytics for online data markets
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science - Rodolfo Vieira Valentim. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 36, 2020-in progress)
Research subject: AI-Powered Darknets/Honeypots for Supporting Network Anomaly Detection
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks - Thomas Favale. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 35, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Strengthening Privacy and Cybersecurity through Anonymization and Big Data
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Communication and Computer Networks - Carlos Henrique Gomes Ferreira. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 34, 2018-2022)
Thesis: Modeling and Analyzing Collective Behavior Captured by Many-to-Many Networks - Francesca Soro. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 34, 2018-2022)
Thesis: An AI and data-driven approach to unwanted network traffic inspection
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science - Michele Cocca. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 33, 2017-2021)
Thesis: Electric Revolution in Free Floating Car Sharing: a data driven methodology for system design
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science
Publications
Last years publications
PoliTO co-authors
Publications by type
Latest publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Ciociola, Alessandro; Giordano, Danilo; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco (2023)
Data Driven Scalability and Profitability Analysis in Free Floating Electric Car Sharing Systems. In: INFORMATION SCIENCES, vol. 621, pp. 545-561. ISSN 0020-0255
Contributo su Rivista - Jha, Nikhil; Vassio, Luca; Trevisan, Martino; Leonardi, Emilio; Mellia, Marco (2023)
Practical anonymization for data streams: z-anonymity and relation with k-anonymity. In: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION, vol. 159. ISSN 0166-5316
Contributo su Rivista - Valentim, Rodolfo; Drago, Idilio; Trevisan, Martino; Mellia, Marco (2022)
URLGEN – Towards Automatic URL Generation Using GANs. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT, pp. 1-1. ISSN 1932-4537
Contributo su Rivista - Pinna, Maurizio; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco (2022)
Demand Model Generation from Traces: Adaptive KDE Data-Driven Optimization. In: 6th International Conference on Smart Grid and Smart Cities (ICSGSC), 22-24 October 2022, pp. 48-54. ISBN: 978-1-6654-8783-2
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Giordano, Danilo; Giobergia, Flavio; Pastor, Eliana; La Macchia, Antonio; Cerquitelli, ... (2022)
Data-driven strategies for predictive maintenance: Lesson learned from an automotive use case. In: COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY, vol. 134. ISSN 0166-3615
Contributo su Rivista - Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; D’Alconzo, Alessandro (2022)
Big Data in Computer Network Monitoring. In: Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies / S.N., S.L., Springer, pp. 1-8. ISBN: 978-3-319-63962-8
Contributo in Volume - Perdices, Daniel; Perna, Gianluca; Trevisan, Martino; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco (2022)
When satellite is all you have: watching the internet from 550 ms. In: Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nizza, 25-27 Ottobre, pp. 137-150. ISBN: 9781450392594
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Gomes Ferreira, Carlos Henrique; Murai, Fabricio; Silva, Ana P. C.; Trevisan, Martino; ... (2022)
On network backbone extraction for modeling online collective behavior. In: PLOS ONE, vol. 17. ISSN 1932-6203
Contributo su Rivista - Jha, Nikhil; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco (2022)
The Internet with Privacy Policies: Measuring The Web Upon Consent. In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON THE WEB, vol. 16. ISSN 1559-1131
Contributo su Rivista - Vieira Valentim, Rodolfo; Drago, Idilio; Cerutti, Federico; Mellia, Marco (2022)
AI-based Sound-Squatting Attack Made Possible. In: 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Genoa, Italy, 06-10 June 2022, pp. 448-453. ISBN: 978-1-6654-9560-8
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Favale, Thomas; Giordano, Danilo; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco (2022)
What Scanners do at L7? Exploring Horizontal Honeypots for Security Monitoring. In: 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Genoa, Italy, 06-10 June 2022, pp. 307-313. ISBN: 978-1-6654-9560-8
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Boffa, Matteo; Milan, Giulia; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Ben Houidi, ... (2022)
Towards NLP-based Processing of Honeypot Logs. In: 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Genoa, Italy, 06-10 June 2022, pp. 314-321. ISBN: 978-1-6654-9560-8
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Jha, Nikhil; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Traverso, Stefano; ... (2022)
A PIMS Development Kit for New Personal Data Platforms. In: IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, vol. 26, pp. 79-84. ISSN 1089-7801
Contributo su Rivista - Barros, Matheus F. C.; Ferreira, Carlos H. G.; Junior, Lourenco A. P.; Mellia, Marco; ... (2022)
Understanding mobility in networks. In: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION REVIEW, vol. 49, pp. 124-130. ISSN 0163-5999
Contributo su Rivista - Zhang, Tianzhu; Qiu, Han; Mellia, Marco; Li, Yuanjie; Li, Hewu; Xu, Ke (2022)
Interpreting AI for Networking: Where We Are and Where We Are Going. In: IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, vol. 60, pp. 25-31. ISSN 0163-6804
Contributo su Rivista - Gioacchini, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Houidi, Zied Ben; Rossi, ... (2021)
DarkVec: automatic analysis of darknet traffic with word embeddings. In: CoNEXT '21: 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Virtual Event Germany, December 7 - 10, 2021, pp. 76-89. ISBN: 9781450390989
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Valentim, Rodolfo; Drago, Idilio; Trevisan, Martino; Cerutti, Federico; Mellia, Marco (2021)
Augmenting phishing squatting detection with GANs. In: ACM CoNEXT 2021 - International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Virtual Event Germany, 7 December 2021, pp. 3-4. ISBN: 9781450391337
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Mellia, Marco; Zincir-heywood, Nur; Diao, Yixin (2021)
Overview of Network and Service Management. In: Communication Networks and Service Management in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning / Zincir-Heywood N., Mellia M., Diao Y.,, New York City, Wiley, pp. 3-27. ISBN: 9781119675501
Contributo in Volume - Fassio, Edoardo; Ciociola, Alessandro; Giordano, Danilo; Noussan, Michel; Vassio, Luca; ... (2021)
Environmental and Economic Comparison of ICEV and EV in Car Sharing. In: 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) , pp. 1621-1626. ISBN: 978-1-7281-9142-3
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Tolomei, Leonardo; Fiorini, Stefano; Ciociola, Alessandro; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, ... (2021)
Benefits of Relocation on E-scooter Sharing - a Data-Informed Approach. In: 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), pp. 3170-3175. ISBN: 978-1-7281-9142-3
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Society and Enterprise
Patents and other intellectual properties
- Sistema automatico per identificazione di URL generati algoritmicamente. national and international Patent - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Method for unsupervised detection of web trackers. national and international Patent - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Metodo e apparato per rilevare flusso dati vocale e flusso dati a pacchetto. national and international Patent - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Metodo ed apparato per rilevare flussi dati in un flusso dati a pacchetti, applicazioni a identificazione di traffico vocale. national and international Patent - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research