Massimo Maresca

Biography

Massimo Maresca, PhD, is Senior Fellow at ICSI and a Professor in the University of Genoa School of Engineering. He is also Founder and Scientific Advisor of DocSpace, a spin-off company developing and marketing the SpreadSheetSpace technology. SpreadSheetSpace—which transforms traditional spreadsheets into a distributed, real-time computational platform—was developed at the Research Center on Computer Platform Engineering (CIPI), a joint project of the Universities of Genoa and Padua that Dr. Maresca helped create. 

Dr. Maresca’s research activity has evolved from massively parallel computers to distributed systems and currently focuses on distributed computer platforms and service computing. He has held academic and leadership roles at the University of Genoa and the University of Padua, including serving as a professor, research center director, and graduate school director. He was also a Science & Technology Attaché at the Italian Consulate of San Francisco. He has been the principal investigator for many research projects funded by private companies, the Italian Government, and the European Commission, and has published around 100 papers in scientific conferences and journals.

Dr. Maresca received a Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering and a research doctorate in Computer Engineering, both from the University of Genoa, Italy. He served as a postdoctoral fellow at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and has also held visiting scholar positions at the University of Washington and ICSI.

Publications

Selected Leadership Activities

• Editorial board of the Proceedings of the IEEE for two terms

Areas of Expertise

• Software Engineering, DevOps, and Continuous Integration
• Computer Networks, Internet Protocols, and Web Infrastructure
• Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, and Fog Computing
• Distributed Systems and Decentralized Computing
• Collaborative Systems, Social Computing, and CSCW
• Collective Intelligence and Human Computation
• Big Data Analytics, Pipelines, and Infrastructure
• Theoretical Foundations of AI and Machine Learning
• Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers, and Web3 Technologies
• Green Computing, Energy-Efficient Systems, and Sustainable IT
• Digital Education, EdTech, and Computational Thinking
• Workforce, Future of Work, and Economic Impacts of Computing
• Open-Source Software, Tools, and Collaborative Platforms
• Collaborative Platforms, Citizen Science, and Crowdsourcing
• Computational Participatory Science and Digital Collaboration

ICSI Activity