Sebastiano Miano

Sebastiano Miano

Assistant Professor @ Polimi, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

Politecnico di Milano

Biography

Announcement: Effective July 2023, I have taken up the position of Assistant Professor (RTDA) at Politecnico di Milano in Italy.

Between June 2020 and June 2023, I served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK. I hold an M.S. and Ph.D. degree (with honors) in Computer and Control Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin. During my academic journey, I gained invaluable research experience at the University of Cambridge, UK, as well as the EIT Digital Silicon Valley Hub in San Francisco. Furthermore, I contributed my expertise as a network consultant to various companies and startups in Italy and the USA.

My research primarily revolves around mechanisms and architectures aimed at enhancing host-based network applications, with a particular emphasis on cutting-edge technologies like eBPF and XDP. At present, my focus lies in exploring full-stack network programmability, striving to optimize performance and resource utilization across all programmable layers of the end-host networking stack.

Interests

  • Data Center Network
  • eBPF/XDP Linux subsystem
  • SDN, NFV
  • Cloud Services
  • Programmable Networks
  • Compilers

Education

  • PhD in Computer Engineering, 2020

    Politecnico di Torino

  • M.S. in Computer Engineering, 2015

    Politecnico di Torino

  • BSc in Computer Engineering, 2013

    University of Catania

Accomplish­ments

Finalist of Facebook Networking Systems Research RFP 2021

Our research on Re-architecting the QUIC stack for performance has reached the final stage of the Facebook Networking Systems Research RFP 2021.

Best Dissertation Award 2020

My Ph.D. Thesis Rethinking Software Network Data Planes in the Era of Microservices has been selected as one of the best Ph.D. dissertations of 2020.

Winner of Facebook Networking Systems Research RFP 2020

Our research on Automatic optimization of software network data planes has been awarded with the Facebook Networking Systems Research RFP 2020, together with Gianni Antichi and Gabor Retvari.

SIGCOMM SRC Winner

Placed at the 1st place of the Student Research Competition (SRC) on the Graduate divisior for the poster: Automatic Optimization of Software Data Planes.

Best SIGCOMM CCR Paper 2020

Our paper Securing Linux with a Faster and Scalable Iptables has been selected as the best technical CCR paper of the 2020.

Projects

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Morpheus

A compiler framework for automatic software data plane optimizations

BPF Iptables

An eBPF-based clone of the Linux iptables

Polycube

A eBPF/XDP-based software framework for fast network services running in the Linux kernel