Turin is where I was born in 1993. In 2022, I obtained the PhD (cum laude) from Politecnico di Torino in Computer Engineering. I have always been passionate about computers and networks, and I enjoy studying how they work at every level.

My research journey blends exploration of new technologies, coding, writing, and reading—though not always in that order. I focus on computer networking and challenges related to next-generation networks, cloud infrastructure, and computing continuum. I am especially drawn to solving networking problems using algorithms and techniques from the AI/ML ecosystem.

Beyond technology, I have a deep appreciation for art—especially movies and music. I am fascinated by new challenges of any kind and approach each of them with curiosity and enthusiasm.

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M.A. Salari, A. Kumar, F. Rinaudi, R. Tourani, Alessio Sacco and F. Esposito. “Privacy Analysis of Oblivious DNS over HTTPS: a Website Fingerprinting Study” in 2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems (DSN), 2025. Bibtex

L. Pappone, Alessio Sacco and F. Esposito. “Mutant: Learning Congestion Control from Existing Protocols via Online Reinforcement Learning” in 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2025. Bibtex

O. Aouedi, T.H. Vu, Alessio Sacco, D.C. Nguyen, K. Piamrat, G. Marchetto, Quoc-Viet Pham. “A Survey on Intelligent Internet of Things: Applications, Security, Privacy, and Future Directions” in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1238-1292, 2025. Bibtex

Ons Aouedi, Alessio Sacco, Kandaraj Piamrat and G. Marchetto. “Handling Privacy-Sensitive Medical Data With Federated Learning: Challenges and Future Directions” in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 790-803, June 2022. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. “Restoring Application Traffic of Latency-Sensitive Networked Systems using Adversarial Autoencoders” in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 2521-2535, July 2022. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto and Paolo Montuschi.‘‘A Self-Learning Strategy for Task Offloading in UAV Networks" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 4301-4311, April 2022. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, M. Flocco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. ‘‘Owl: Congestion Control with Partially Invisible Networks via Reinforcement Learning" in Proc. of The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM '21), 10-13 May 2021, Online Event. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto and Paolo Montuschi.‘‘Sustainable Task Offloading in UAV Networks via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 5003-5015, April 2021. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, M. Flocco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto.‘‘Supporting Sustainable Virtual Network Mutations with Mystique" in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol.18, no.3, pp. 2714-2727, February 2021. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto, G. Kolar, and K. Schwetye.‘‘On Edge Computing for Remote Pathology Consultations and Computations" in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), 24 (9), 2523-2534, July 2020. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto.‘‘RoPE: An Architecture for Adaptive Data-Driven Routing Prediction at the Edge" in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 986-999, June 2020. Bibtex