Members

Chiara Petrioli (Fellow, IEEE) is currently  Professor of computer engineering and  Director of the Sensor Networks and Embedded Systems Laboratory (SENSES Lab), Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza. She is also CEO & Founding Partner of La Sapienza spinoff WSense Srl. She has been a member of Sapienza's Academic Senate, Chair of the Ph.D. Program in computer science and deputy rector for fundraising, scouting and SME incubation. She is a pioneer of the Internet of Underwater Things, an area on which she has led the development of breakthrough technologies listed in the NT100 Top Social Global Techs Changing Our Lives 2016, as well as she has been listed among the top Uplink Innovators at World Economic Forum in 2023 as one of the winners of the Ocean Data Challenge.

She has published over 200+ articles in prominent international journals and conferences (over 8000+ citations and H-index 49). She has been a PI of over 20 national and international research projects, serving as a coordinator of four EC projects (FP7 projects GENESI and SUNRISE, EASME ArcheoSub, EASME SEASTAR) highlighted as success stories on the Digital Agenda of Europe and featured by international mass media, including RAI SuperQuark and Presa Diretta, Wired USA, The Guardian, Bild Magazine, and National Geographics. Her research has resulted in international patents and in award-winning innovative technologies.

Her research interests include the design and optimization of future wireless,  IoT, and cyber physical systems. She has been a member of the Steering Committee of ACM SenSys, member of the Executive Committee of ACM SIGMOBILE, and of the ACM Europe Council. She is a Fulbright Scholar, one of the Inspiring 50 2018, the Top Women in Technology,  she has been awarded the N2Women 2019 Stars in computer networking and communications. She has been a member of the Steering Committee and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, IEEE Transactions on Networking, Elsevier Computer Communications(Elsevier), and a Guest Editor of special issues for IEEE Access, Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), and Physical Communication (Elsevier). She has served as  General Chair of ACM SenSys 2013 and the Program Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2016. She is also the Chair of the Steering Committee of IEEE SECON and the General Chair of ACM MobiHoc 2019. She has been the Program Co-Chair of leading conferences in the field, such as ACM MobiCom and IEEE SECON.