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Università degli Studi di Parma

Michele Amoretti

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Associate professor
Department of Engineering and Architecture
Information Engineering Unit
SSD: Information Processing Systems (IINF-05/A)
President of the first-cycle degree course in COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING

Curriculum Vitae

From 4/12/2018 to present: Associate Professor, University of Parma. 2023: National Scientific Qualification for Full Professor.  

Director of the Quantum Software Laboratory of the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma.

UNIPR’s team Principal Investigator and Use Case Team Lead in the Horizon Europe project Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA)

CINI Consortium delegate in the UNI/CT 535 "Quantum Technologies" UNINFO Commission, which is the national mirror of the CEN/CENELEC JTC 22 committee. Member of the IEC/ISO JTC 3 "Quantum Technologies" committee.

UNIPR’s node coordinator within CINI’s HPC-KTT Laboratory and Working Group on Quantum Information technologies.

Member of the Scientific Computing Working Group of the Università degli Studi di Parma.
IEEE Senior Member. ACM Member.

Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (27/4/2020 - ongoing).

Reviewer for several journals and international conferences. 

2002: Laurea Degree (MS) in Electronic Engineering, University of Parma.
2006: Ph.D. in Information Technologies, University of Parma.  
2007-2015: Research Associate, University of Parma.
From 15/2/2013 to 31/8/2013: Visiting Researcher, at LIG Lab (Grenoble, FR), to work with the Drakkar group on decentralized naming services for IPv6-based wireless sensor networks.
2015: National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor. From 4/12/2015 to 3/12/2018: Assistant Professor (with Tenure Track), University of Parma.

Spoken languages: Italian (mother tongue), English (fluent) and French (fluent).

Positions

President of the first-cycle degree course in COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING

Other positions

From 15/2/2013 to 30/8/2013: Visiting Researcher at LIG Lab, in Grenoble (FR), to collaborate with Drakkar Group, led by prof. Andrzej Duda, on decentralized naming services for IPv6-based wireless sensor networks.

Teaching

Research

Research areas

General background: parallel and distributed computing

Main research interests in the last 10 years: quantum computing, quantum internet

Author of more than 150 peer reviewed papers in international journals, books and conferences.

Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-1lLMkMAAAAJ 

Participation to research projects:

  • 2026-2029: PI for the University of Parma team and leader of WP4 "Use Cases" in the SGA "QIA - Phase 2" (Project ID: 10297140), funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme
  • 2024-2025: PI for the project "Advanced QUAntum MAchine learNing (AQUAMAN)" funded by the European Commission – NextGenerationEU – Initiative of the Piano Complementare al Piano Nazionale Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) as part of the National Center on HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing - Spoke 10
  • 2022-2026: PI for the University of Parma team in the FPA "Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA)" (Project ID: 101080128) and in the SGA "QIA - Phase 1" (Project ID: 101102140), funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme; leader of WP4 "Use Cases" since mid 2024
  • 2022-2026: Extended Partnership "National Quantum Science and Technology Insitute" funded by the European Commission – NextGenerationEU – Initiative of the Piano Complementare al Piano Nazionale Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)
  • 2021-2022: PI of the activity "Technological Enablers for Preserving Data Integrity of Georeferenced and Position Information" funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), Contract No. 4000135821/21/NL/CRS/mkn
  • 2019-2021: IT Development Technical Manager of the Regional Project POSITIVE (POR FESR 2014-2020)
  • 2018-2020: EU Project NAVIGATE (ERASMUS+ 2017-1-BG01-KA203-036383)
  • 2018: PI of the project Machine-driven Maintenance (MdM): design of the industrial Internet of Things platform, within the global project Machine-driven Maintenance (MdM) co-funded by Region Emilia-Romagna and Sygest Srl
  • 2017-2018: PI of the NEXTALGO project funded by the University of Parma Research Fund - FIL 2016.
  • 2016-2017: PI of the Italian team in the Galileo Project "Security Protocols for the Cloud-oriented Internet of Things (SeCIoT)" (G16-31), in collaboration with LIG Lab (Grenoble, FR) 
  • 2016-2018: Regional Project ALADIN (POR FESR 2014-2020)
  • 2011-2014: EU Project CALIPSO (FP7-ICT-2011-7-288879)
  • 2010-2012: EU Project METABO (FP7-ICT-2007-1-216270)
  • 2007-2010: EU Project PERSONA (FP6-IST-2005-045459)
  • 2007-2008: National Project PRIN PROFILES (Peer to peeR beyOnd FILE Sharing) 
  • 2006-2008: EU Project MULTIKNOWLEDGE (FP6-IST-2004-027106)
  • 2007: Project SOP (Service-Oriented Peers) funded by NATO C3 Agency (NC3A)
  • 2005-2007: Regional Project STIL 
  • 2003-2006: National Project FIRB Web Minds 
  • 2003-2004: IBM Project Grid architectures for QoS aware content distribution in the University community (IBM Faculty Award)
  • 2002: National Project COFIN Iside

Publications

Full list of publications

Research projects

  • Quantum Internet Alliance - Phase2

    Manager: Amoretti Michele

    Sponsor: EUROPEAN COMMISSION (COMMISSIONE EUROPEA)

    Start date: 01/04/2026 End date: 30/09/2029

  • Quantum Internet Alliance - Phase1

    Manager: Amoretti Michele

    Sponsor: EUROPEAN COMMISSION (COMMISSIONE EUROPEA)

    Start date: 01/10/2022 End date: 31/03/2026

  • Advanced QUAntum MAchine learNing

    Manager: Amoretti Michele

    Sponsor: Ministero dell'università e della ricerca

    Start date: 01/10/2024 End date: 30/09/2025

Public Engagement Initiatives

  • Partecipazione al Comitato JTC3 "Quantum Technologies" del IEC/ISO

    Partecipo al Comitato JTC3 in quanto delegato CINI nel Comitato Nazionale CT327 di CEI.

    Date: 01/12/2024

  • Partecipazione al Comitato JTC22 "Quantum Technologies" del CEN/CENELEC

    Partecipo al Comitato JTC22 in quanto delegato CINI nel Comitato Nazionale UNICT 535 di UNINFO.

    Date: 09/03/2023

  • "Computer, Supercomputer, Quantum Computer!" - due lezioni nell'ambito di Unijunior Parma 2022

    Ho preparato e svolto due lezioni dal titolo "Computer, Supercomputer, Quantum Computer!" nell'ambito dell'iniziativva Unijunior Parma (edizione 2022). La prima lezione era per una classe di bambini dai 7 ai 9 anni, la seconda lezione per una classe di bambini dai 10 ai 13 anni. Le lezioni si sono svolte nel plesso Q02 del Campus Universitario. https://www.unijunior.it/parma/calendario-parma https://www.unijunior.it/parma/calendario-parma

    Date: 19/11/2022

  • Edge e Fog Computing

    https://www.imprenditori.it/2021/08/13/dge-fog-computing/

    Date: 13/08/2021

  • Manutenzione Predittiva

    https://www.imprenditori.it/2020/09/01/manutenzione-predittiva/

    Date: 01/09/2020

  • Quantum Internet

    Articolo "Quantum Internet" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2019/09/06/quantum-internet/

    Date: 06/09/2019

  • High Performance Computing

    Articolo "High Performance Computing" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2019/05/07/high-performance-computing/

    Date: 07/05/2019

  • Proof of Location

    Articolo "Proof of Location" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2018/11/16/proof-of-location/

    Date: 16/11/2018

  • I Nodi della Privacy

    Articolo "I Nodi della Privacy" per il magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2018/08/27/nodi-della-privacy/

    Date: 27/08/2018

  • IoT e Blockchain

    Articolo "IoT e Blockchain" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2018/06/25/iot-e-blockchain/

    Date: 25/06/2018

  • Deep Quantum Learning

    Articolo "Deep Quantum Learning" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2018/04/06/deep-quantum-learning/

    Date: 26/04/2018

  • Machine Learning

    Articolo "Machine Learning" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2018/02/09/machine-learning/

    Date: 09/02/2018

  • Blockchain e Smart Contracts

    Articolo "Blockchain e Smart Contracts" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2017/12/04/blockchain-smart-contracts/

    Date: 04/12/2017

  • IoT: problemi attuali, idee per il futuro

    Articolo "IoT: problemi attuali, idee per il futuro" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2017/09/29/iot-problemi-attuali-idee-futuro/

    Date: 29/09/2017

  • Il software free ha vinto

    Articolo "Il software free ha vinto" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2017/06/06/software-free-vinto/

    Date: 06/06/2017

  • Bitcoin e Blockchain

    Articolo "Bitcoin e Blockchain" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2016/12/02/bitcoin-e-blockchain/

    Date: 02/12/2016

  • Il ritratto dell’utente

    Articolo "Il ritratto dell’utente" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2016/09/14/il-ritratto-dellutente/

    Date: 14/09/2016

  • La fine della Legge di Moore

    Articolo "La fine della Legge di Moore" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2016/06/21/la-fine-della-legge-moore/

    Date: 21/06/2016

  • LBS, localizzati ovunque

    Articolo "LBS, localizzati ovunque" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2016/04/18/lbs-localizzati-ovunque/

    Date: 18/04/2016

  • Qubit, quanto manca?

    Articolo "Qubit, quanto manca?" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2015/04/05/qubit-quanto-manca/

    Date: 05/04/2015

  • Connetti il tuo vigneto

    Articolo "Connetti il tuo vigneto" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2013/04/15/connetti-il-tuo-vigneto/

    Date: 15/04/2013

  • Arriva l'era dell'IPv6

    Articolo "Arriva l'era dell'IPv6" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2013/04/03/arriva-lera-dellipv6/

    Date: 03/04/2013

  • Cloud Power

    Articolo "Cloud Power" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2013/03/01/cloud-power/

    Date: 01/03/2013

  • L’ironia non ci spaventa

    Articolo "L’ironia non ci spaventa" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2012/11/28/lironia-non-ci-spaventa/

    Date: 28/11/2012

  • Mordi la prima mela

    Articolo "Mordi la prima mela" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2012/09/23/mordi-la-prima-mela/

    Date: 23/09/2012

  • Paura di cadere dalle nuvole?

    Articolo "Paura di cadere dalle nuvole?" pubblicato dal magazine Imprenditori: https://www.imprenditori.it/2012/05/10/paura-di-cadere-dalle-nuvole/

    Date: 10/05/2012