About

I’m now an MBA fellow at the Collège des Ingénieurs, ending in november 2021. I’m now working in the field of fin-tech, mainly on blockchain and welfare credits. I got my Ph.D. in computer science at the Department of Computer Science of Sapienza University of Rome, under the supervision of Prof. Gaia Maselli. My research interests lay in the field of wireless networks, with emphasis on RFID and ultra low power sensors.

News

[8 jul 2021] I finished my Ph.D. studies at Sapienza, with a thesis titled “Smart and Green buildings: a bottom up approach”!

[02 may 2021] Our last work, The Tags Are Alright: Robust Large-Scale RFID Clone Detection Through Federated Data-Augmented Radio Fingerprinting,Mauro Piva, Gaia Maselli, Francesco Restuccia - has been published at MobiHoc 2021!

Dataset

• Mauro Piva, Gaia Maselli, Francesco Restuccia, The Tags Are Alright: Robust Large-Scale RFID Clone Detection Through Federated Data-Augmented Radio Fingerprinting. Submitted for publication to MobiHoc 2021 Dataset Link We are releasing 200GB of recorded RN16 from 200 different RFID tags. This dataset is used to test RFID fingerprint and data augmentation. We are also releasing the code described in our paper.

Publications

• Andrea Coletta, Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva, John A. Stankovic, Environment-driven Communication in Battery-free Smart Buildings. In ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, Volume 2Issue 2May 2021 Article No.: 14pp 1–30. link

• Andrea Coletta, Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva, Domenicomichele Silvestri, DEMO: DANGER: a drones aided network for guiding emergency and rescue operations. In ACM MOBIHOC 2020. link

• Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva, Francesco Restuccia, HyBloSE: hybrid blockchain for secure-by-design smart environments. In ACM CryBlock 2020. link

• Novella Bartolini, Andrea Coletta, Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva, DRUBER: A Trustable Decentralized Drone-based Delivery Systems. In 5th Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications - MobySys, June 2020. link

• Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva, John A. Stankovic, Matteo Pietrogiacomi, Battery-Free Smart Objects based on RFID backscattering. In IEEE IoT Magazine, September 2019. link

• Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva, John A. Stankovic, Adaptive Communication for Battery-Free Devices in Smart Homes. In IEEE IoT Journal, April 2019. link

• David Benedetti, Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva, Chiara Petrioli, The impact of external interference on RFID anti-collision protocols. In IEEE Networking Letters, April 2019. link

• Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva, Domenicomichele Silvestri, SMARTEEX: a software tool for SMART Environment EXperiments. In CNERT - INFOCOM WORKSHOP, April 2019. link

• Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva Poster: SECY APP: Self Configuration and Easy Management for Software Defined Smart Homes. In ACM SENSYS, November 2018. link

• Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva, Giorgia Ramponi, Deepak Ganesan, Demo: JoyTag: a battery-less videogame controller exploiting RFID backscattering. In ACM MOBICOM, November 2016. link

Awards (WIP)

2019

• Winner of the Student Travel Grant for MobiHoc 2019, ACM SIGMOBILE Travel Grant; Catania, Italy

2018

• Winner, Techfugees Rome 2017, awarded by Facebook and Unicef; Rome, Italy
• Winner, CityJam 2018: awarded by Regione Lazio and LazioInnova; Rome, Italy

2017

• Winner, UniCredit International Demoday; Milan, Italy
• Winner, BNP International Hackathon 2017; Paris, France
• Seeds for the Future 2017,Selected by MIUR for Visiting Huawei Global Research Headquarter in Shenzhen - Pechino; Cina
• Winner, UniCredit International Demoday 2017; Milan, Italy
• Selected, RockStart Amsterdam AI Accelerator; Amsterdam, Netherland

2016

• Honours Programme, Awarded for academic achievements, La Sapienza, University of Rome
• Winner, MobiHack 2016: awarded by Trenitalia, Alstom, Regione Toscana; Florence, Italy
• Winner, PosteHack 2016: awarded by Poste Italiane; Rome, Italy
• Bronze, Google Technologies for Cloud and Web Development; Rome, Italy

Services (WIP)

• 2020, Security Vulnerabilities - Responsible Disclosure Hall of Fame - Telecom Italia
• Finals Juror, EUvsVirus, an European Union backed hackathon with 20000+ participants; European Union
• Mentoring, TechStars Startup Weekend; Latina, Italy