Marcello Caleffi

Marcello Caleffi (M'12, SM'16) is Associate Professor with the DIETI Department, University of Naples Federico II, where he co-lead the Quantum Internet research group. He is also with the National Laboratory of Multimedia Communications, National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT). From 2010 to 2011, he was with the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology, as visiting researcher. In 2011, he was also with the NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya (N3Cat) at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), as visiting researcher. Since July 2018, he held the Italian national habilitation as Full Professor in Telecommunications Engineering. His work appeared in several premier IEEE Transactions and Journals, and he received multiple awards, including best strategy, most downloaded article, and most cited article awards. Currently, he serves as editor for IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications and IEEE Trans. on Quantum Engineering. Previously, he served as editor/associate technical editor for IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Communications Letters. He has served as Chair, TPC Chair, and TPC Member for several premier IEEE conferences. In 2017, he has been appointed as as distinguished lecturer from the IEEE Computer Society and he has been elected treasurer of the IEEE ComSoc/VT Italy Chapter. In 2019, he has been also appointed as member of the IEEE New Initiatives Committee from the IEEE Board of Directors. In 2022, he has been awarded with the IEEE Communications Society "Best Tutorial Paper Award" 2022 for the paper “When Entanglement Meets Classical Communications: Quantum Teleportation for the Quantum Internet”.