Service

• Editor

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026-present
  • Editor, Elsevier Computer Networks, 2023-present
  • Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2021-present
  • Guest Editor, Advances in wireless networks simulation, Elsevier Computer Networks, 2024
  • Guest Editor, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Open RAN, 2022-2024
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Transport Layer Innovations for Future Networks, 2021

• Conference Chairing

  • Organizer: Open6G+AI Workshop 2026, Northeastern University (workshops, tutorials, hackathon)
  • TPC Co-Chair: EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025 (AI4C track), European Wireless 2025, IEEE/IFIP WONS 2024, ACM WiNTECH 2023, ACM Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3) 2021-2022
  • Co-Chair/Organizer: IEEE VTC RitiRAN 2024, IEEE Globecom BRAIN 2024, IEEE Globecom NextGenRAN 2022, Open5G Forum (sponsored by ACM SigMobile community grant) 2021-2022
  • Track Co-Chair: IEEE VTC Spring 2025, 2026
  • Tutorial Co-Chair: IEEE ISCC 2025, 2026, IEEE VTC Fall 2026
  • Demo Chair: IEEE LANMAN 2024
  • Finance Co-Chair: IEEE WoWMoM 2023

• Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

  • IEEE INFOCOM 2027
  • IEEE INFOCOM 6G AI-RAN Workshop 2026
  • ACM CoNEXT 2025-2026
  • IEEE/IFIP WONS 2022-2025
  • IEEE CCNC 2021-2026
  • IEEE ICC (multiple symposia, workshops) 2022-2026
  • IEEE WCNC 2024-2026
  • IEEE ICNC 2024-2025
  • IEEE NetSoft 2024-2025
  • ACM WiNTECH 2024
  • IEEE Globecom (multiple symposia, workshops) 2023-2026
  • IEEE PIMRC 2023-2025
  • IEEE HPSR 2023-2025
  • IEEE LANMAN 2023
  • IEEE WoWMoM 2023
  • ACM WNS3 2019-2023
  • IEEE MASS 2021-2022
  • ACM MobiArch 2021-2024

• Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (COMST)
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)
  • IEEE Communications Letters (CL)
  • IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG)
  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (VTM)
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Network
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET)
  • Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM)

• Conference Reviewer

  • IEEE European Wireless, 5G-WF, 6G Summit, Globecom, ICC, ICNC, LCN, VTC, WCNC, ACM WNS3, WNGW.

• Proposals Reviewer

  • EIC Pathfinder Open 2025 (Individual Evaluator)
  • French National Research Agency (ANR), 2021

Thesis Committees

• Pre-Examiner for doctoral theses at the University of Oulu, Tampere University, and the University of Adelaide, 2025
• Ravis Shirkhani, Master, Northeastern University, 2026
• Gerard Bou Capovilla, Master, Northeastern University, 2022-2024
• Jacob Hall, Master, Northeastern University, 2022-2024
• Co-supervised multiple M.Sc. theses at the University of Padova, 2018-2022

Service to the Institution

• Member, ECE Research Faculty Evaluation Committee, Northeastern University, 2024-2026

Professional Societies

• AMS Committee on Radio Frequency Allocations, Member, 2022-2027
• IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals, Member at Large, 2019-2021, 2022-2024
• Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE ComSoc. Member of ACM, SigMobile, and the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
• Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (Italian national scientific habilitation) for Associate Professor in Telecommunications (09/F2), since June 2021.

Patents, Policy, and Standardization

• AI-RAN Alliance: AI-RAN Working Group 2 (WG2) AI-and-RAN Chair, elected position (2025-2028). Top contributor for the AI-RAN Alliance, leading tasks on architecture and AI/ML workflows.
• O-RAN ALLIANCE: Editor and rapporteur for the nGRG research item on dApps, now part of commercial protocol stacks. Active contributions to Working Groups on use cases and architecture.
• Co-inventor of four awarded U.S. patents and 19 other patent applications in the area of Open RAN systems, digital twins, and beam management.
• Contributed to several proceedings and requests for comments from the FCC and the NTIA.

Invited Talks and Webinars

• Keynotes

  • “Toward Open, Programmable, Intelligent, and Secure AI-RAN,” ACM WiseML (co-located with ACM WiSec), Saarbrücken, Germany, 2026
  • “Toward Open, Programmable, and Intelligent Cellular Networks,” ENMETH Workshop, IEEE CCNC, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2025

• Invited Talks and Seminars

  • 2026: Technology Innovation Institute (TII), University of Massachusetts Amherst, O-RAN nGRG Workshop
  • 2025: New York University (NYU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Aalborg University, IEEE Industry Connection Open RAN Meeting, UNH InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), O-RAN nGRG Workshop
  • 2024: Cornell University, University of Texas at Austin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Technical University of Munich (TUM), University at Buffalo, 6G Networking Channel
  • 2023: Aalborg University, The Alan Turing Institute, Restart Tech Camp, New York University (NYU)
  • 2022: Politecnico di Milano

• Earlier Talks

  • mmWaves in 5G NR Cellular Networks: a System Level Perspective - talk at the CTTC Weekly Seminar Series, 2018
  • mmWaves in 5G NR Cellular Networks: a System Level Perspective - webinar for the IEEE Future Networks initiative, 2019
  • mmWaves in 5G NR Cellular Networks: a System Level Perspective - talk at Qualcomm, 2019

Open-Source Software and Testbeds

• AgentRAN: open-source agentic AI framework for the autonomous control of Open RAN systems
• OpenRAN Gym: framework for AI/ML xApp design and testing in O-RAN, including dApps for OpenAirInterface and NVIDIA Aerial
• ns-3 mmWave and related modules: the first 5G module for ns-3, QUIC, vehicular, and channel model implementations
• Colosseum, X5G, and the Northeastern private 5G testbed: open testbeds for wireless experimental research

Outreach

• Presentation at Building Bridges at Northeastern (semi-annual event to provide high school students with the opportunity to explore Northeastern University’s College of Engineering) https://stem.northeastern.edu/programs/ayp/building-bridges/