• PhD in “Systems engineering and computer science” achieved on the 2 March 2012. Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS), Università della Calabria (Italy), with a thesis entitled “High-level Frameworks for the Development of Wireless Sensor Network Applications”, supervisor Prof. Giancarlo Fortino.
• Master Degree in Computer Engineering obtained on 11 December 2007 at the University of Calabria (UNICAL) with a thesis entitled “Development and testing of a framework for the extraction of features in Wireless Body Sensor Networks to support the monitoring of physical activities “, supervisor Prof. Giancarlo Fortino.
• Degree in Computer Engineering obtained in December 2003 at the University of Calabria (UNICAL) with a thesis entitled “Information Systems, E-Government and Tax Information Systems: the experience of GESTEL”, supervisor Prof. Sergio Flesca.
• Scientific High School Diploma obtained in July 2000 at the State Scientific High School “Pitagora” of Rende (CS, Italy).

PARTICIPATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOLS

• Participation in the 2nd International Summer School on Deep Learning 2018, held in Genoa from 23 to 27 July 2018 (http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2018/).
• Participation in the ARTIST Summer School 2011 entitled “Advanced Schoolon ICT for Future Energy Systems”, held in Trento from25 to 29 July 2011 (http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/Overview,2282.html).
• Participation in the CONET Summer School 2010, entitled “Act-Control-Move: Beyond Networked Sensors”, held in Dagstuhl, Germany from 15 to 21 August 2010 (https://www.dagstuhl.de/no_cache/en/program/calendar/evhp/?semnr=10332).