1954: born in Terni, Italy. 1977: Laurea (Dr. Eng.) degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Italy. 1979: Specialization Degree in Engineering of Automatic Control and Computer Systems at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Italy. 1981-1983: Professor of Electrical Communications for Officers of the Italian Air Force at the Technical School located in the Air Force Base of Pratica di Mare. 1983-1991: Assistant Professor at the INFOCOM Dept. of the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Italy. 1991-1994: Associate Professor at the Dept. of Electronics and Information of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. 1994-1995: Full Professor at the Institute of Computer Science and Telecommunications of the University of Catania, Italy. 1995-now: Full Professor at the Dept. of Electronics and Information of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His current research interests concern the in areas of optical networks, theory of interconnection networks, traffic modeling.