Emanuele Giona is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of Sapienza University of Rome and Research Fellow (Assegnista di Ricerca) at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering at the same university.
He received his B.Sc and M.Sc (with honors) Degrees in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome in 2018 and 2020, respectively. During his M.Sc, he was awarded a Junior Research Scholarship on the topics of "Development of software solutions for networks of multimodal drones", which led him to work with Prof. Chiara Petrioli.
His research interests lie primarily in MAC and routing protocols in the context of Internet of (Underwater) Things, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles, with his main topic being communication protocols.
Additionally, he enjoys advocating for open source initiatives.