Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Ferrara, Italy
mattia.fogli@unife.it · Unife · ORCID · Google Scholar · GitHub
Work
- 2024 – present
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara, Italy - 2023 – 2024
Research Fellow
Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Italy - 2019 – 2020
Research Intern
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Pensacola, FL, USA
Education
- 2024
PhD in Engineering Science (cum laude)
Thesis: An Entanglement-Aware Digital Twin Ecosystem
University of Ferrara, Italy
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MSc in Computer Science and Automation Engineering (110/110 cum laude)
Thesis: Multi-Cluster Workload Management in Tactical Networks
University of Ferrara, Italy - 2018
BSc in Electronics and Computer Engineering
University of Ferrara, Italy
Teaching
Courses
- System and Network Administration & Cybersecurity (6 ECTS)
2024/2025 – present
BSc in Computer Science (L-31) and Electronics and Computer Engineering (L-8)
University of Ferrara, Italy - Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (1 ECTS)
2025/2026 – present
BSc in Computer Science (L-31) and Electronics and Computer Engineering (L-8)
University of Ferrara, Italy - AI-Assisted Coding (3 ECTS)
2024/2025
PhD in Engineering Science
University of Ferrara, Italy - Operating Systems and Laboratory (1 ECTS)
2024/2025
BSc in Computer Science (L-31)
University of Ferrara, Italy - Operating Systems and Internet Laboratory (3 ECTS)
2023/2024
BSc in Technologies for Digital Industry (L-P03)
University of Ferrara, Italy
Seminars
- The Road to Blockchain (7.5 hr)
2022/2023 – present
Distributed Systems
MSc in Computer Science and Automation Engineering (LM-32)
University of Ferrara, Italy - Digital Twins (2.5 hr)
2023/2024 – present
Industrial Internet of Things
MSc in Computer Science and Automation Engineering (LM-32)
University of Ferrara, Italy - AI-Assisted Programming with Copilot (2.5 hr)
2023/2024
Concurrent Programming
MSc in Computer Science and Automation Engineering (LM-32)
University of Ferrara, Italy
Tutoring
- Distributed Systems
2022/2023
MSc in Computer Science and Automation Engineering (LM-32)
University of Ferrara, Italy - Operating Systems
2021/2022 – 2022/2023
BSc in Electronics and Computer Engineering (L-8)
University of Ferrara, Italy
Research
Awards
- 2024
Best Paper Runner-Up
IEEE Internet Computing
Requirements and Design Architecture for Digital Twin End-to-End Trustworthiness - 2022
Early Career Scientist Award
NATO STO IST Panel
IST-193: Edge Computing at the Tactical Edge - 2021
Best Young Scientist Paper Award
International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems (ICMCIS)
Performance Evaluation of Kubernetes Distributions (K8s, K3s, KubeEdge) in an Adaptive and Federated Cloud Infrastructure for Disadvantaged Tactical Networks
Projects
- 2026 – present
IST-240: Tactical Adaptivity Concept Convergence for Meshed Edge Service and Data Handling
Technical team member
NATO STO - 2024 – 2025
Z4I: Zero Trust Architecture for the Industry Landscape
Research unit member
PNRR SERICS - 2023 – 2025
DATRUST: Connecting the Physical and Digital Worlds through Trustworthy Data-Flows
Research unit member
PRIN - 2022 – 2025
IST-193: Edge Computing at the Tactical Edge
Technical team member
NATO STO - 2019 – 2022
IST-168: Adaptive Information Processing and Distribution to Support Command and Control
Contributor
NATO STO
Service
- 2025 – present
Technical editor
Computer Communications, Elsevier
Publications
Journals
- An Orchestration System for Digital Twin Trustworthiness in Industrial Environments
N. Bicocchi, M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, E. Mingozzi, M. Picone, A. Virdis
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2026
View at publisher · Download a copy - An Entanglement-Aware Middleware for Digital Twins
P. Bellavista, N. Bicocchi, M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, M. Mamei, M. Picone
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 2024
View at publisher · Download a copy - Exploiting Microservices and Serverless for Digital Twins in the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum
P. Bellavista, N. Bicocchi, M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, M. Mamei, M. Picone
Future Generation Computer Systems, 2024
View at publisher · Download a copy - ODTE: A Metric for Digital Twin Entanglement
P. Bellavista, N. Bicocchi, M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, M. Mamei, M. Picone
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024
View at publisher · Download a copy - Requirements and Design Architecture for Digital Twin End-to-End Trustworthiness
N. Bicocchi, M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, M. Picone, A. Virdis
IEEE Internet Computing, 2024
View at publisher · Download a copy - Chaos Engineering for Resilience Assessment of Digital Twins
M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, F. Poltronieri, C. Stefanelli, M. Tortonesi
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2024
View at publisher · Download a copy - Requirements and Design Patterns for Adaptive, Autonomous, and Context-Aware Digital Twins in Industry 4.0 Digital Factories
P. Bellavista, N. Bicocchi, M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, M. Mamei, M. Picone
Computers in Industry, 2023
View at publisher · Download a copy - Application-Aware Network Traffic Management in MEC-Integrated Industrial Environments
P. Bellavista, M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, C. Stefanelli
Future Internet, 2023
View at publisher · Download a copy - Software-Defined Networking in Wireless Ad Hoc Scenarios: Objectives and Control Architectures
M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, C. Stefanelli
Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2022
View at publisher · Download a copy - Quantifying the Performance of Cloud-Oriented Container Orchestrators on Emulated Tactical Networks
T. Kudla, M. Fogli, S. Webb, G. Pingen, N. Suri, H. Bastiaansen
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2022
View at publisher · Download a copy - Federated Control of Distributed Multi-Partner Cloud Resources for Adaptive C2 in Disadvantaged Networks
H. Bastiaansen, J. van der Geest, C. van den Broek, T. Kudla, A. Isenor, S. Webb, N. Suri, M. Fogli, B. Canessa, A. Masini, R. Goniacz, J. Sliwa
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2020
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Conferences and workshops
- Zero Trust Architecture and Digital Twin to Improve the Cybersecurity Posture of Distributed Smart Factory Environments
M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, E. Mari, C. Stefanelli
International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), 2025
View at publisher · Download a copy - Cyber-Physical Interaction Engineering of Industrial Digital Twin Ecosystems
M. Fogli, G. Mazziotta, S. Burattini, M. Picone, C. Giannelli, C. Stefanelli
International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), 2025
View at publisher · Download a copy - State Management Strategies for Stateful Digital Twin Migration in Industrial Scenarios
M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, G. Rossi, C. Stefanelli
International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), 2025
View at publisher · Download a copy - Evaluating Scheduling Algorithms for Adaptive Orchestration in Federated Tactical Edge Cloud Environments
A. Amato, H. Bastiaansen, J. Coleman, W. Datema, M. Fogli, J. van der Geest, B. Krishnamachari, T. Kudla, P. Sanchez, N. Suri
International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems (ICMCIS), 2025
View at publisher · Download a copy - Harmonizing Physical and Digital Twins Lifecycles
M. Picone, R. Morandi, A. Barbone, S. Burattini, M. Fogli, N. Bicocchi, C. Giannelli, A. Ricci
IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), 2025
View at publisher · Download a copy - Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Workflow Orchestration at the Tactical Edge
A. Amato, A. Morelli, M. Fogli, R. Galliera, N. Suri
IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2024
View at publisher · Download a copy - A Performance Cost/Benefit Analysis of Adaptive Computing in the Tactical Edge
A. Amato, H. Bastiaansen, W. Datema, M. Fogli, R. Fronteddu, R. Galliera, J. van der Geest, T. Kudla, P. Sanchez, N. Suri, S. Watson
International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems (ICMCIS), 2024
View at publisher · Download a copy - A Taxonomy for Workload Deployment Orchestration in the Edge-Cloud Continuum
T. Albers, M. Fogli, E. Harmsma, E. Lazovik, H. Bastiaansen
European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC), 2023
View at publisher · Download a copy - Measuring Digital Twin Entanglement in Industrial Internet of Things
P. Bellavista, N. Bicocchi, M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, M. Mamei, M. Picone
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023
View at publisher · Download a copy - A Framework for QoS-Enabled Semantic Routing in Industrial Networks: Overall Architecture and Primary Protocols
P. Bellavista, M. Fogli, L. Foschini, C. Giannelli, L. Patera, C. Stefanelli
IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2022
View at publisher · Download a copy - Joint Orchestration of Content-Based Message Management and Traffic Flow Steering in Industrial Backbones
M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, C. Stefanelli
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2022
View at publisher · Download a copy - Edge-Powered In-Network Processing for Content-Based Message Management in Software-Defined Industrial Networks
M. Fogli, C. Giannelli, C. Stefanelli
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2022
View at publisher · Download a copy - Towards a COTS-Enabled Federated Cloud Architecture for Adaptive C2 in Coalition Tactical Operations: A Performance Analysis of Kubernetes
M. Fogli, G. Pingen, T. Kudla, S. Webb, N. Suri, H. Bastiaansen
IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2021
View at publisher · Download a copy - QoS-Enabled Semantic Routing for Industry 4.0 Based on SDN and MOM Integration
P. Bellavista, M. Fogli, L. Foschini, C. Giannelli, L. Patera, C. Stefanelli
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2021
View at publisher · Download a copy - Performance Evaluation of Kubernetes Distributions (K8s, K3s, KubeEdge) in an Adaptive and Federated Cloud Infrastructure for Disadvantaged Tactical Networks
M. Fogli, T. Kudla, B. Musters, G. Pingen, C. van den Broek, H. Bastiaansen, N. Suri, S. Webb
International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems (ICMCIS), 2021
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