People at USI: Silvia Giordano
Location: Facoltà di Lugano
Prof. Silvia Giordano holds a PhD. from EPFL, Switzerland. She is currently the
head of the Networking Lab (NetLab) in the Institute of System for Informatics
and Networking (ISIN), and as direction member of ISIN, at the University of
Applied Science - SUPSI in Ticino, Switzerland. She is teaching several courses in
the area of: Networking, Wireless and Mobile Networking, Quality of Services
and Networks Applications. She is co-editor of the book żMobile Ad Hoc Networkingż
(IEEE-Wiley 2004). She has published extensively on journals, magazines
and conferences in the areas of quality of services, traffic control, wireless
and mobile ad hoc networks. She has participated in several European ACTS/
IST projects and European Science Foundation (ESF) activities. She is series editor
of the Series on Ad Hoc And Sensor Networks of the IEEE Communication
Magazine. She is area editor of Computer Communications journal by Elsevier,
Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks journal, Ocpscience, Journal of Ubiquitous
Computing and Intelligence (JUCI) and Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing
(JoATC) both by American Scientific Publishers (ASP), and Mediterranean
Journal of Computer and Networks, SoftMotor. She was already co-editor of
several special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine and Baltzer MONET
and Cluster Computing on mobile ad hoc networking and QoS networking. She
was general chair of WoWMoM 2009, program co-chair of IEEE PERCOM 2009,
program co-chair of IEEE VTC-Fall 2008, IEEE MASS 2007, workshop chair of
IEEE WOWMoM 2007, tutorial chair of MobiHoc 2006, general chair of IEEE
WONS 2005, co-founder of IEEE Persens workshop, IEEE AOC workshop and
ACM Mobihoc SANET workshop and is/was on the executive committee and
TCP of several international conferences, and serves as reviewer on transactions
and journals, as well as for several important conferences.
Silvia Giordano is a senior member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM and IFIP
WG 6.8. Her current research interests include wireless and mobile ad hoc
networks, QoS and traffic control.