Marco Canini
Professor at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Thuwal, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Canini is a professor and researcher with 12+ years of experience specializing in distributed systems, large-scale cloud computing and software-defined networking, currently leading systems research at KAUST. He has a strong track record of turning rigorous research into practical tools and improvements—ranging from concolic testing and the NICE open-source tool to stability and spec-compliance fixes in an OpenFlow 1.3 switch. His work has produced measurable performance and predictability gains for large-scale data stores and network control planes, including multi-fold tail-latency improvements in Cassandra and transactional, fault-tolerant SDN control designs. Marco combines hands-on systems engineering (from internships at Google and Intel to postdoc development at EPFL) with sustained academic leadership—supervising PhD students, teaching cloud and security courses, and helping commercialize SDN technology. Based in Thuwal, he blends deep theoretical insight with production-oriented solutions that improve reliability and energy efficiency in real-world networked systems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science and Engineering at Università degli Studi di Genova
Italian, English
Github Skills (7)
c1710
c1110
sdn10
architecture9
architectures9
debug9
debugging9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CPqD/ofsoftswitch13
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
OpenFlow 1.3 switch.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the OpenFlow 1.3 switch. Their contributions included fixing a critical bug related to unknown instruction types and adding a utility program for debugging OpenFlow messages. They also addressed specification compliance issues for Set-Field VLAN_VID and increased maximum table entries. These modifications highlight a focus on core switch behavior and feature enhancements.
switchsdnopenflowsdn-switch
mcanini/INGI2145-2015
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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