Alessandro Di Stefano

I'm a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Teesside University, within the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital technologies (SCEDT), Department of Computing & Games. I received my BSc (2009) and MSc degrees (2012) in Telecommunications Engineering from the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering (DIEEI) at the University of Catania, Italy. I hold a Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the DIEEI at the University of Catania, Italy, awarded in 2015, with a thesis titled "Evolutionary Dynamics of Social Behaviours on Multilayer Networks". After completing my Ph.D., I worked as postdoctoral researcher at DIEEI, University of Catania, for almost four years, and then as a research associate and teaching assistant at the Department of Engineering, King’s College London (KCL), London, UK, supervised by Prof. Nishanth Sastry. Then, I worked as a research associate at Computer Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK, supervised by Prof. Pietro Liò, with whom I have been collaborating since 2012. I have been an IEEE member and part of the IEEE Professional Communication Society and the Technical Committee on Computational Life Sciences, since 2017. I have been collaborating with several universities in Europe and all over the world, such as University of Cambridge, King's College London, University of Siena, and Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA. Moreover, I regularly serve as a reviewer for various top-tier journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, and PloS One, and leading international conferences (IJCAI, KDD, CIKM, ICDCS, ICDCN, etc.), where I have often been invited to join the Technical Program Committee of these events. My research approach is interdisciplinary, incorporating engineering and computer science methodologies applied to socio-technological systems. My main research interests include game theory, network science and artificial intelligence. I have published many peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals and leading international conferences.