Roberto Palmieri

Education

• PhD in Computer Engineering at the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, "Sapienza", University of Rome in 2012
  Thesis title:  "Speculative Protocols for Actively Replicated Transactional Systems"
  Advisor: Prof. Francesco Quaglia "Sapienza", University of Rome.
  External Referees: Prof. Jennifer Lundelius Welch (Texas A&M University, USA) and Prof. Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Swiss).
• Master degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Rome "Sapienza" in 2008 (GPA: 110/110 cum laude)
  Thesis title: "Modeling And Evaluation Of Relational Dbms Based On Lock Concurrency Control And Non Uniform Data Access Pattern".
• Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering at the Universiy of Rome "Sapienza" in 2006 (GPA: 110/110 cum laude)
  Thesis work: "MicroOpGen tool and developing extensions for DisSimulator , a simulator for PD32 educational-processor".

Appointments

• Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Lehigh University, USA (August 2022 - Present).
• Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Lehigh University, USA (August 2017 - May 2022).
• Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, USA (July 2014 - August 2017).
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, Virginia Tech, USA (2013 - July 2014).
• Post-Doc in Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, "Sapienza", University of Rome, Italy (2012).

Conference/Journal Organization

• Journal of Systems Research (JSys) (Distributed Consensus Area co-chair from 2021);
• International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2026 (PC co-chair)
• International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2022 (PC co-chair)
• International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE SRDS 2021 (PC co-chair)
• Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data, PaPoC 2021 (PC co-chair)
• ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, SPAA 2020, 2021, 2022 (Local organizer)
• Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems, IEEE DPDNS 2017 (PC chair)

Conference Program Committee Member

• 2026: ACM ATC, IEEE ICDCS, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware, IEEE SRDS, OPODIS, ACM SIGPLAN PPoPP.
• 2025: USENIX ATC, IEEE ICDCS, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware, IEEE SRDS.
• 2024: USENIX ATC, ACM SIGOPS Eurosys, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware, OPODIS.
• 2023: IEEE IPDPS, OPODIS.
• 2022: IEEE IPDPS, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE SRDS, ACM SIGOPS EuroSys, ACM SIGPLAN PPoPP.
• 2021: USENIX ATC, ACM Eurosys , ACM SIGPLAN PPoPP.
• 2020: ACM PODC, ACM SIGPLAN PPoPP, IEEE NCA, Eurosys, USENIX ATC, ICPP, PaPoC, IEEE NCA, OPODIS.