Short Bio & Activities
Francesca Righetti is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering (DII) at the University of Pisa, Italy.
She got her PhD in Information Engineering at the University of Pisa in May 2021, with Prof. Giuseppe Anastasi, Dr. Carlo Vallati and Dr. Sajal K. Das as advisors.
In May 2017, she received the Computer Engineering Master’s Degree , from the University of Pisa.
Her main research areas are the Internet of Things (IoT) and its application in the industrial environment, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). As enabling technology for the IIoT, she performed the performance evaluation of the 6TiSCH Architecture.
She is also interested in the Cloud-to-Things Continuum (C2TC).
Teaching
- Internet of Things
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Pisa. Corso di Laurea in Computer Engineering.
Accademic Year 2023/2024
Accademic Year 2022/2023
Accademic Year 2021/2022
Accademic Year 2019/2020
- Codocenza of the “Networking” course
Master di I livello in “Cybersecurity” dell’Università di Pisa.
Accademic Year 2022/2023
Accademic Year 2021/2022 - Industrial Internet of Things
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Pisa. Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni.
Accademic Year 2022/2023
Accademic Year 2021/2022 - Networked Embedded Systems
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Pisa. Corso di Laurea in Computer Engineering.
Accademic Year 2018/2019 - Progettazione di Reti Informatiche
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Pisa. Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica.
Accademic Year 2017/2018
Collaborations with international research institute
- Visiting PhD student – CReWMaN Lab, directed by Dr. Sajal K. Das
Computer Science Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T), Rolla, Missouri, USA
April – July 2019 (4 months).
Projects
- 2023-2025, Involved in the PNRR project funded by European Union – NextGenerationEU “National Centre for High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing.
- 2022, Co-scientific responsible for the “Sustainable Model And Renewable Thinking Energy Parking (SMARTEP)” research convention between the Engineering Department at the University of Palermo and the Information Engineering Department at the University of Pisa.
- 2021-2022, Responsible for the Task ‘Design, implementation and execution of the experiments’ in the EdgeFlooding project- Exploiting Edge Computing for Real-time Monitoring and Detection of Flash Floods. Funded by NGIatlantic under the Third Open Call.
- 2017-2018, Responsible for the Task ‘Execution of the experiments for the evaluation of congestion control protocols through the WiSHFUL platform’ in the ECOAP project – Experimental assessment of congestion control strategies for the Constrained Application Protocol. Funded under the Fifth WiSHFUL Open Call, H2020 GA No. 645274.
Responsible for the demo of the final review. - 2022, Involved in the european project TOLIFE – Combining Artificial Intelligence and smart sensing TOward better management and improved quality of LIFE in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Funded by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency, HORIZON-HLTH-2021-DISEASE-04-04, GA No. 101057103.
- 2022, Involved in the regional project DIGI_OMET – Sviluppo soluzione pilota “software as a service” per monitoraggio macchine 4.0 ed integrazione nuove tecnologie nei processi aziendali con supporto temporary manager. Founded by the Tuscany Region. POR FESR Toscana 2014-2020.
- 2022, Involved in the research convention between the Engineering Department at the University of Palermo and the Information Engineering Department at the University of Pisa for the CrowdSense project. Study of models to realize a crowdsensing community, analysis of the results in the framework of the CrowdSense project.
- 2022, Involved in the regional project “Smart Railway Infrastructures: Efficiency, Reliability and Safety (SmaRIERS)” with the research group of the Information Engineering Department at the University of Pisa, sub-contractor of ISTI-CNR, Pisa. Founded by the Tuscany Region. POR FESR 2014-2020 TOSCANA DECRETO 7.10.2021 N. 18043.
- 2020, Involved in the project “Autarchia energetica sostenibile” founded by “Progetti di Ricerca di Ateneo – PRA 2020” from University of Pisa.
- 2019-2020, Involved in the regional project “SmarT INtelliGent RAilwaY (STINGRAY)” with the research group of the Information Engineering Department at the University of Pisa, sub-contractor of ISTI-CNR, Pisa. Founded by the Tuscany Region. POR FESR Toscana 2014-2020 ASSE 1 – AZIONE 1.1.5 – Sub-azione a1 “Progetti strategici di ricerca e sviluppo” (Bando 1) – Decreto 24.05.2017 n. 7165.
- 2017-2018, Involved in the project “Distretti urbani a zero impatto energetico ed ambientale”, founded by “Progetti di Ricerca di Ateneo – PRA 2017-2018” from University of Pisa.
Organizing committee member
- 2022, Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the 7th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2022), colocated with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP, 20-24 Jun 2022, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
- 2019, Local Organizing Committee for the 5th Italian Conference on ICT for Smart Cities And Communities, I-CiTies 18-20 September 2019, Pisa, Italy.
- 2019, Publicity Co-Chair for the 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2019, 12-14 June 2019, Washington D.C., USA
- 2018, Web Chair for the 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2018, 18-20 June 2018, Taormina, Italy
Techincal Program Committee member
- 2024, 10th IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities, SSC, 29 Giu 2024, Osaka, Japan.
- 2024, 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 26-29 Giu 2024, Paris, France.
- 2024, 4th Workshop on From Cloud to Things: harnessing pervasive data in the Computing Continuum-(Cloud2Things) 2024, 11 Mar 2024, Biarritz, France.
- 2024, 10th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP, 29 Giu-2 Lug 2024, Osaka, Japan.
- 2024, Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing workshop, RAGE, 13 Mag 2024, Hong Kong.
- 2023, 9th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP, 26-30 Giu 2023, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- 2023, 9th IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities, SSC,26 Giu 2023, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- 2023, 8th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems, SmartSys, 26 Giu 2023, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- 2023, Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing workshop, RAGE, 9 Mag 2023, San Antonio, Texas, US.
- 2022, 18th IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking, MSN,14-16 Dic 2022, Guangzhou, China.
- 2022, 20th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC, 8-11 Gen 2023.
- 2022, 8th IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities, SSC, 20 Giu 2022, Espoo, Finland.
- 2022, 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP, 20-24 Giu 2022, Espoo, Finland.
- 2021, 19th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC,8-11 Gen 2022, (virtual).
- 2021, 6th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems, SmartSys, 23 Ago 2021, Irvine, CA, USA (virtual)
- 2021, 7th IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities, SSC, 23 Ago 2021, Irvine, CA, USA (virtual).
- 2021, 17th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, ICWMC, 18-22 Lug 2021, Nice, France.
- 2020, 18th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC, 9-12 Gen 2021, Las Vegas, USA.
- 2020, 16th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, ICWMC, 18-22 Ott 2020, Porto, Portogallo.
- 2020, 6th IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities, SSC, 14 Set 2020, Bologna, Italy.
- 2020, 5th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems, SmartSys, 14 Set 2020, Bologna, Italy.
- 2020, 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP, 14-17 Set 2020, Bologna, Italy.
- 2020, 25th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC, 8-10 Lug 2020, Rennes, France.
- 2020, 20th IEEE Mediterranean Eletrotechnical Conference, MELECON, 16-18 Giu 2020, Palermo, Italy.
- 2020, 4th International Workshop on Pervasive Smart Living Spaces, PerLS, 27 Mar 2020, Austin, USA.
- 2019, 5th IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities, SSC, 12 Giu 2019, Washington D.C., USA.
- 2019, 4th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems, SmartSys, 12 Giu 2019, Washington D.C., USA.
- 2019, 8th IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services, IoT- SoS, 10 Giu 2019, Washington D.C., USA.
- 2019, 11th International Conference on Emerging Networks and Systems Intelligence, EMERGING, 22-26 Set 2019, Porto, Portugal.
- 2019, 8th International Conference on Smart Cities, Systems, Devices and Technologies, SMART, 28 Lug – 2 Ago 2019, Nice, France.
- 2019, 15th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, ICWMC, 30 Giu – 4 Lug. 2019, Rome, Italy.