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Mattia Nicolella

Mattia Nicolella

P.hD Student in Computer Science at Boston University

I’m a Computer Science PhD student from Italy. My current advisor is Prof. Renato Mancuso. My research involves benchmark platforms, detecting applications resource usage patterns on black-box applications and locating platform bottlenecks. With this knowledge, I aim to regulate per-application resource access to decrease latency in a multi-tenant configuration.

Research

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Under Pressure: Adaptive Isolation for Visual SLAM Perception Workloads on Contended ARM Hardware
2026
A. Lanz, M. Ou, M. Nicolella, R. Mancuso.
Industrial Session of the 38th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2026)
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Surgical Software-less I/O Virtualization
2025
F. Ciraolo, M. Nicolella, P. Carpanedo, D. Hoornaert, M. Caccamo, R. Mancuso.
4th International Workshop on Real-Time and IntelliGent Edge Computing
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RT-Bench: A Long Overdue Update
2025
M. Nicolella, D. Hoornaert, R. Mancuso.
19th Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT 2025)
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Know your enemy: Benchmarking and experimenting with insight as a goal
2022
M. Nicolella, D. Hoornaert, S. Roozkhosh, A. Bastoni, R. Mancuso.
WiP Session@ 43rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS@ Work 2022)
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RT-Bench: An Extensible Benchmark Framework for the Analysis and Management of Real-Time Applications
2021
M. Nicolella, S. Roozkhosh, D. Hoornaert, A. Bastoni, R. Mancuso.
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems

Experiences

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Technical University of Munich

June 2026 - August 2026

Rome, Italy

The research internship with the Chair of Cyber-physical Systems in Production Engineering kickstarted a long-term project to investigate and harness available support for performance monitoring and memory bandwidth regulation on modern embedded systems that feature CPUs, GPUs and NPUs.

Visiting Student

June 2026 - August 2026


CyberChallenge.IT

March 2017 - June 2017

Rome, Italy

CyberChallenge.IT is a training program for young talents, being the main Italian initiative aiming at identifying, attracting, recruiting and placing the next generation of IT security professionals.

Challenge participant

March 2017 - June 2017

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HiTrust S.R.L

7 August 2015 - 20 August 2015

Montesilvano, Italy

A short-term intership sposored by “I.I.S Luigi di Savoia”, aiming to connect young students to working professionals.

Intern

7 August 2015 - 20 August 2015

Education

M.Sc. in Engineering in Computer Science
B.Sc. in Computer Science & Automation Engineering
Industrial and Technical Institute Diploma

Honours & Awards

Honours Programme in Engineering in Computer Science

Full Merit Scholarship