is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1992) and a Laurea Degree in Electrical Engineering (1987), both from the Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. From 1992 to 1998 he was an Assistant Professor of the Electronics Engineering Department at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He joined UT-Dallas as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in August 1997 and was elevated to the rank of Professor in 2005.
Dr. Andrea Fumagalli has been chosen to lead a subset of an international collaboration to create the computer network architecture of the future — preparing for a time when trillions of devices are expected to be connected to the Internet. Dr. Fumagalli's research interests include aspects of wireless, optical, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud networks, and related protocol design and performance evaluation. He has published about two hundred and fifty technical papers in peer-reviewed refereed journals and conferences.