Biography

Jacopo Mauro is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He is active in the Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, DevOps, Formal Methods, and Optimization fields. His research interests also include Microservices, Concurrent Languages, and Explainable AI.

Jacopo holds a PhD degree in informatics from the University of Bologna. He has lived in four countries and worked in world-renowned Universities (Bologna, Paris Diderot, Oslo, SDU) and Research Centers (INRIA).

Interests
  • Cloud Computing
  • DevOps & Microservices
  • Cybersecurity
  • Optimization
  • Constraint Programming
  • Formal Methods
  • Explainable AI
Education

  • Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) in Computer Science, 2012

    University of Bologna, Italy

  • Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science, 2008

    University of Udine, Italy

  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science, 2006

    University of Udine, Italy

Recent Publications

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Giuseppe De Palma, Saverio Giallorenzo, Jacopo Mauro, Matteo Trentin, Gianluigi Zavattaro (2026). tAPP OpenWhisk: A serverless platform for topology-aware allocation priority policies. Sci. Comput. Program..

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Giuseppe De Palma, Saverio Giallorenzo, Jacopo Mauro, Matteo Trentin, Gianluigi Zavattaro (2025). Affinity-aware Serverless Function Scheduling. 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture, ICSA 2025, Odense, Denmark, March 31 - April 4, 2025.

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Giuseppe De Palma, Saverio Giallorenzo, Jacopo Mauro, Matteo Trentin, Gejsi Vjerdha (2025). Towards a Framework for Transitioning from Monolith to Serverless. The Combined Power of Research, Education, and Dissemination - Essays Dedicated to Tiziana Margaria on the Occasion of Her 60th Birthday.

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Giuseppe De Palma, Saverio Giallorenzo, Jacopo Mauro, Matteo Trentin, Gianluigi Zavattaro (2024). An OpenWhisk Extension for Topology-Aware Allocation Priority Policies. Coordination Models and Languages - 26th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, COORDINATION 2024, Held as Part of the 19th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2024, Groningen, The Netherlands, June 17-21, 2024, Proceedings.

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Saverio Giallorenzo, Jacopo Mauro, Andrea Melis, Fabrizio Montesi, Marco Peressotti, Marco Prandini (2024). Choreography-Defined Networks: A Case Study on DoS Mitigation. Service-Oriented Computing - 22nd International Conference, ICSOC 2024, Tunis, Tunisia, December 3-6, 2024, Proceedings, Part II.

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Projects

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Cyberskills
Cyberskills is an initiative supported by Industriens Fond that builds a nationwide youth community (ages 15–25) to make cybersecurity education engaging and accessible, aiming to inspire more young people to pursue cybersecurity careers.
Parallel Portfolio of Parallel Solvers (P3)
The Parallel Portfolio of Parallel Solvers (P3) project, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond, DFF) aims to advance the state of the art in solving complex combinatorial optimization problems by combining the power of parallelism in portfolio solvers.
GAMESS
GAMification and Education for Secure Software (GAMESS).
Danish Cybersecurity Challenge 2022-24
Project funded by the Industriens Fond involving other 4 Danish universities (Aalborg University, Copenhagen Business School, IT University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark), the Center for Cybersecurity, the Danish Ministry of Defense, and the Happy 42 company to promote the education of cybersecurity to the young and organize the Danish Cybersecurity Challenge.
Danish Cybersecurity Challenge 2025-27
Project funded by the Industriens Fond involving various danish universities (Aalborg University, Copenhagen Business School, IT University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark) and companies to promote the education of cybersecurity to the young and organize the Danish Cybersecurity Challenge.
CBCP
Capability-Based Command Protocol Project.
Danish Cybersecurity Challenge
Project funded by the Industriens Fond involving other 3 Danish universities (Technical University of Denmark, IT University of Copenhagen, Aalborg University), the Center for Cybersecurity, the Danish Ministry of Defense, and the Happy 42 company to promote the education of cybersecurity to the young and organize the Danish Cybersecurity Challenge.
ASCD
Assessment on the Status of CyberSecurity in Denmark.
DICOGA
Digital Choreographies for Oil & Gas in the Arctic.

Teaching

Last courses

Past courses

Topics available for Master Thesis

  • Dev(Sec)Ops & Cloud Computing
  • Optimization
  • Algorithm Selection
  • Constraint based AI Explanation
  • Formal Methods
  • Choreographic programming

Awards

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Software

  • SUNNY-CP: a portfolio based constraint solver
  • mzn2feat: a feature extractor for MiniZinc/XCSP files

Discontinued software

  • Zephyrus2: an optimal deployment configurator
  • HyVarRec: a context-aware reconfiguration for Software Product Lines
  • XCSP-to-MiniZinc: a file converter form XCSP to MiniZinc

Chocolate experiments

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