Massimo Torquati
Associate Professor
Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolMassimo Torquati is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa with 16 years of experience bridging industry-scale HPC work and academic research. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers on parallel and distributed programming and runtime systems, and leads development of the FastFlow parallel programming framework used across multiple EU research projects. His expertise spans parallel programming models, high-performance data-stream processing, and I/O coordination, informed by prior roles at major industry players including Quadrics. Torquati has played prominent community roles such as general co-chair of Euro-Par 2018 and guest editor of several special issues, reflecting both technical depth and leadership. Based in Tuscany, he combines hands-on framework development with sustained contributions to EU and industry-funded collaborations, often turning theoretical models into practical, reusable runtimes.
16 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Università di Pisa
Github Skills (34)
parallel10
parallelization10
sourceforge10
gpu-programming10
multicore10
pattern10
parallel-processing10
parallel-computing10
caf10
fastflow10
pattern-matching9
stream9
multithreading8
async8
stateless7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fastflow/fastflow
Oct 2009 - Sep 2022
FastFlow pattern-based parallel programming framework (formerly on sourceforge)
Contributions:3 releases, 445 commits, 12 PRs in 13 years 1 month
gpu-programmingsourceforgeparallelfastflowmulticore
ATS-Advanced-Technology-Solutions/caf_latency_benchmarks
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 6 months
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