Summary
Gabriele Serra is a Safety & Security Researcher and R&D engineer with nine years of experience designing kernel, firmware, and hypervisor software for real-time safety-critical systems, currently at Accelerat and affiliated with Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. He holds a PhD in Embedded Systems (industrial track) and has worked on resource management for hard real-time kernels across ARM aarch64 and x86-64, with applied projects in the railway sector. Gabriele leverages modern SoC features—crypto cores, virtualization and hw-sw co-design—to architect secure, auditable platforms and has hands-on experience moving research into industry through his spin-off role. He also brings entrepreneurial and product experience as a former co-founder/CTO who led embedded and mobile strategy for a last-mile logistics startup. A curious lifelong learner, he has complemented his doctoral work with an international research visit to Leibniz Universität Hannover, blending rigorous academia with pragmatic system delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Embedded Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Embedded Systems at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Technical High School Degree, Computer Science, 100/100, Technical High School Degree, Computer Science, 100/100 at I.T.I.S. Galileo Galilei Livorno
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, Spanish, German