Alessandro Bassi

Alessandro Bassi (abassi@eecs.utk.edu) graduated from the University of Milan in 1994, with soft computing and software engineering as majors. He joined Amadeus in 1997, and moved to the University of Tennessee in 2000, where he was involved in the seminal work of the Internet Backplane Protocol. He then held a Research Visitor position at the ENS in Lyon, France, where he developed the relationship between storage and active networking. After working for RIPE NCC, in November 2004 he joined Hitachi. He was the deputy project coordinator of the FP5 6QM project, and the project coordinator of the FP7 “Autonomic Internet” project. He also participated to several other EU projects and initiatives. Since 2007, his research interests are focused on RFID technology and the Internet of Things. He is the chair of the Internet of Things WG of the European Technology Platform EPoSS. He is an expert for ENISA on possible threats from loT technology adoption, and he is the Technical Coordinator of the IP FP7 project “Internet-of-Things Architecture” (IoT-A).