Marco Levorato

Marco Levorato is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at UC Irvine. He completed the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy, in 2009. Between 2010 and 2012, he was a postdoctoral researcher with a joint affiliation at Stanford and the University of Southern California. His research interests are focused on distributed computing over unreliable wireless systems, especially for autonomous vehicles and healthcare systems. His work received the best paper award at IEEE GLOBECOM (2012). In 2016 and 2019, he received the UC Hellman Foundation Award and the Dean mid-career research award, respectively. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, Intel and Cisco. In 2020-2021, he was the vice chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications. He serves in the TPC of IEEE Infocom, IEEE Secon, and ACM MobiHoc, is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and was part of the organizing committee of several IEEE and ACM conferences, including IEEE Secon 2022 and 2017, ACM MobiSys 2015 and ACM MobiCom 2015 and 2014. In 2022, he gave the keynote speech at IEEE HealthCom.

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Padova, Italy, 2009

M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Ferrara, Italy, 2005

B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Ferrara, Italy, 2003