Summary
Matteo Turilli is an advanced applications engineer and assistant research professor with over a decade of experience designing and deploying high-performance and distributed computing infrastructures for scientific research. He combines academic rigor from a DPhil at Oxford with hands-on engineering at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Rutgers, where he leads work on cyberinfrastructure used in biology, chemistry, and physics. Matteo played a key role in pandemic-era computational efforts, earning a Secretary of Energy Achievement Award and the 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for COVID-19 research, reflecting his ability to translate systems engineering into real-world scientific impact. His background spans grid and federated cloud initiatives in Europe to production-scale HPC workflows in the U.S., giving him rare end-to-end expertise across middleware, orchestration, and applicative layers. He also teaches and mentors students in ECE, blending research, engineering, and pedagogy to train the next generation of computational scientists. Notably, his career traces early open-source and systems roles through leadership of federated cloud efforts, showing a long-standing focus on making complex distributed systems usable and reliable.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea, Philosophy, Major in Logic, First class degree with distinction, Laurea, Philosophy, Major in Logic, First class degree with distinction at Università degli Studi di Padova
DPhil, Computer Science, DPhil, Computer Science at University of Oxford