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Research profile

Mobile cloud computing, Parallel and distributed systems, Security of wireless networks and systems, Analysis and modeling of mobile social networks.

Ideas for Student Projects or Thesis (Contact me if you are interested in one of the following topics or other related ones)

CloneData: Authorization System for sensitive user data through a phone clone in the cloud.
Using machine learning for detecting river water pollution via crowdsourced images.
Distributed machine learning framework (collection points).
Build an electronic voting system with a central server.
Build an electronic voting system using blockchain technology.
Computation offloading from underwater robots to the edge of the network (ROS programming language).

Professional Services

TPC

2017 - TPC Member of PPAM '17, MAMHIP Workshop.

2017 - TPC Member of ICA3PP '17, Track "Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing".

2016 - TPC member of ICC '16.

Editor

2017 - Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Big Data Driven Mobile Cloud Computing" for the journal "Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing". Publishers: Wiley and Hindawi.

Reviewer
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE SECON, IEEE WiMoB, IEEE ICC, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing.

Conference Organization Volunteer
IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rome, Italy.

Teaching profile

Autumn 2017 - Object Oriented Programming I, CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen.
Oct. 2017 - Guest Lecture on Cloud Computing, Internet technologies and service architectures, CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sep. 2017 - Guest Lecture on Databases, Content and Media Management, CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.
Spring 2017 - Object Oriented Programming II, CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen.
Autumn 2016 - Object Oriented Programming I, CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen.
Oct. 2016 - Guest Lecture on Cloud Computing, Internet technologies and service architectures, CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sep. 2016 - Guest Lecture on Databases, Content and Media Management, CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.
2015 - Substitute Lecturer, Computer Networks and Computer Architecture, Department of CS and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
2014 - Tutor, Computer Science and Enterprise, ENLABS, Rome, Italy. Introductory programming course for high-school students.
2013 - Teaching Assistant, Computer Science for Statistics, Department of Statistics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Python programming and SQL databases.
2012 - Tutor, Python course for high-school students – Olympiad of Informatics, CS Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2012 - Tutor, C Programming language, Department of Mathematics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2012 - Teaching Assistant, Computer Organization and Design, CS Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Supervision of Bachelor, Master, and PhD students

Autumn 2017 - Technical supervision of 1st year students on OOP1 projects.
Autumn 2017 - Michele Zanitti, Master's degree thesis: "A Diversity by Design Proposal for a Movie Recommender System", CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark. Graduated with 12/12. Co-supervised with Jannick Sorensen.
Spring 2017 - Technical supervision of 1st year students on OOP2 projects.
Autumn 2016 - Technical supervision of 1st year students on OOP1 projects.
2016 - Master’s Project, 2nd year, 1 student, CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark. Project Title - TBD.
2016 - Bachelor Group Project, 2nd year, 4 students, CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.
Project Title - RFINDER: Locating stolen bikes in Copenhagen.
2016 - Bachelor Group Project, 2nd year, 5 students, CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.
Project Title - Vehicle to Bicycle Communication for increasing drivers’ awareness.
2015-2016 - Dimitris Chatzopoulos, PhD Student, Department of CS and Engineering, HKUST, Hong Kong.
2015-2016 - Francisco Airton Silva, PhD Student, Informatics Center, UFPE, Brazil. Visiting PhD student at CS Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2015 - Mahdieh Ahmadi, Master Student, Department of CS and Engineering, Hong Kong. Visiting student from Sharif University, Tehran, Iran.
2014 - Oltion Doda, Master Thesis, CS Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2014 - Adriano Di Luzio, Bachelor Thesis, CS Dept., Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2013 - Elvis Angelaccio, Bachelor Thesis, CS Dept., Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2013 - Alessandro Gaeta, Master Thesis, CS Dept., Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2012 - Manuela Benedetti, Bachelor Thesis, CS Dept., Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Education/Academic qualification

Computer Science, Master Degree, University of Rome La Sapienza

2006 → 2009

Computer Science, Bachelor Degree, University of Rome La Sapienza

2002 → 2006

Computer Science, PhD, University of Rome La Sapienza

2009 → 2012

External positions

PostDoc, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Jun 2015 → May 2016

PostDoc, CS Department, Sapienza University of Rome

Mar 2013 → May 2016

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Projects 2010 2021

2 Active
5 Finished

FGPE: Framework for Gamified Programming Education

Kosta, S., Tadayoni, R., Montella, R., Swacha, J. & Queirós, R.

ERASMUS+

01/09/2018 → 31/08/2021

Project: Research

programming

education

instructor

student

learning environment

European Open Web Privacy Measurement

Sørensen, J. K. & Kosta, S.

01/12/2017 → 01/06/2020

Project: Research

Face Recognition on Mobile Cloud Systems using GPU Code Offloading

Kosta, S.

University of Rome La Sapienza

01/07/2015 → 01/07/2017

Project: Research

Face recognition

Graphics processing unit

Multi-Tier, Secure, and Human Mobility Aware Cloud-Aided Mobile Systems

Kosta, S.

01/07/2014 → 01/07/2016

Project: Research

To Offload or Not to Offload? The Bandwidth and Energy Costs of Mobile Cloud Computing

Kosta, S.

01/07/2013 → 01/07/2015

Project: Research

Research Output 2010 2019

29 Article in proceeding
12 Journal article
2 Other contribution
1 Book chapter
4 More

A User Experience Model for Privacy and Context Aware Over-the-Top (OTT) TV Recommendations

Servizi, V., Kosta, S., Hammershoj, A. & Olesen, H., 2019, SIR: Workshop on Social Interaction-based Recommendation. Association for Computing Machinery

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

Recommender systems

Experiments

Before and After GDPR: The Changes in Third Party Presence at Public and Private European Websites

Sørensen, J. K. & Kosta, S., 20 May 2019, The Web Conference 2019 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1590-1600 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

Open Access

data protection

website

EU

EEA

longitudinal study

DagOn∗: Executing Direct Acyclic Graphs as Parallel Jobs on Anything

Montella, R., Di Luccio, D. & Kosta, S., 8 Feb 2019, 2018 IEEE/ACM Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS): 13th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, Held in conjunction with SC 2018: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. IEEE, p. 64-73 10 p. 8638376. (WORKS - Proceedings of the Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science).

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

Engines

Cluster computing

Containers

Availability

Engineers

Offloading Computations to Mobile Devices and Cloudlets via an Upgraded NFC Communication Protocol

Chatzopoulos, D., Fernandez, C. B., Kosta, S. & Hui, P., 12 Feb 2019, In : IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. p. 1-14 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

Mobile devices

Network protocols

Smartphones

Energy utilization

Mobile cloud computing

Performance and Data Traffic Analysis of Mobile Cloud Environments

Pinheiro, T., Airton Silva, F., Fe, I., Kosta, S. & Maciel, P., 16 Jan 2019, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). IEEE Signal Processing Society, p. 4100-4105 6 p. 8616692

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

Mobile cloud computing

Bandwidth

Throughput

Petri nets

Application programs

Datasets

WiFi Probe Requests - CRAWDAD dataset sapienza/probe-requests (v. 2013-09-10)

Barbera, M. V. (Creator), Epasto, A. (Creator), Mei, A. (Creator), Kosta, S. (Creator), Perta, V. C. (Creator), Stefa, J. (Creator), CRAWDAD - A Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data At Dartmouth, 10 Sep 2013

DOI: 10.15783/C76C7Z

Dataset

Prizes

AndroidEDU grant

Sokol Kosta (Recipient), Jul 2011

Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions

grant

Best Demo Award, IEEE INFOCOM 2013

Marco V. Barbera (Recipient), Sokol Kosta (Recipient), Alessandro Mei (Recipient), Vasile Claudiu Perta (Recipient) & Julinda Stefa (Recipient), Apr 2013

Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions