Domenico FERRARI

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Domenico Ferrari earned a Dr. Ing. degree in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1963. He became an Assistant Professor at the Politecnico in 1967. In 1970, he became an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, where he is now Professor Emeritus of Computer Science. From 1977 to 1979, he was Vice-Chairman for Graduate Matters. In the same Department from 1983 to 1987, he served as Chairman of the Computer Science Division and Associate Chairman of the Department.

In October 1995, he founded the Center for Research on the Applications of Telematics to Organizations and Society (CRATOS) at the Università Cattolica, Piacenza, Italy, and has been its Director since then.

In 2000 he was created Full Professor of Computer Science at the Università Cattolica at Piacenza.

From the inception of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley in April 1988 until June 1990, Prof. Ferrari was Deputy Director and then, until 1995, Vice President . During the 1988-95 period, he also led ICSI's Networks Group.

In 1989, he started the Tenet Group at UC Berkeley and ICSI, which designed and built two real-time protocol suites, and experimented with them on several high-speed networking testbeds. In his career, he has supervised about 40 Ph.D.s (more than 10 of whom from the Tenet Group) who are now engaged in university teaching and academic or industrial research in three continents.

Professor Ferrari has been the Keynote Speaker of several international conferences and Distinguished Lecturer in many universities around the world.

For his contributions to the evaluation and improvement of computer systems performance, he has been elevated to the grade of Fellow of the Istitute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in 1987. He also received the 1987 A. A. Michelson Award of the Computer Measurement Group for "outstanding contributions to computer metrics".