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I'm a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Pisa (Italy), where I'm part of the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS Lab) and the Department of Excellence in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

In July 2020 I received (with honors) the PhD in Emerging Digital Technologies (curriculum Embedded Systems) at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, where I worked at the ReTiS Lab under the supervision of Prof. Giorgio Buttazzo and Prof. Alessandro Biondi.

In 2019 I visited the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems - Kaiserslautern (Germany), where I worked with Björn Brandenburg.

In July 2016 I graduated cum laude in the Master of Science in Embedded Computing Systems, jointly offered by University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.

In September 2013 I achieved the Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Pisa with the score of 110/110.

Upcoming or recent events

Professional Service (Conferences)

  • Technical Program Chair roles:
    • Technical Program Chair of RTNS 2026, the 34th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS).
    • Technical Program Chair of DSD 2025, the 28th Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design (DSD).
    • Technical Program Chair of ISORC 2025, the 2025 28th International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing.
    • Technical Program Chair of SIES 2024, the 2024 14th International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems.
  • Participation in Steering Committees:
    • 2025 -- Present. Member of the Steering Committee of the Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design (DSD)
    • 2022 -- Present. Steering Committee Chair and organizer of the workshop on Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing workshop (RAGE)
  • Publicity Chair roles:
    • Publicity Chair of ECRTS 2026, the 2026 38th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems.
    • Publicity Chair of ICCPS 2025, the 2025 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems.
    • Publicity Chair of IoTI5 2025, the 7th International Workshop on IoT Applications and Industry 5.0 (in conjunction with DCOSS-IoT 2025).
  • Track or Workshop Chair roles:
    • Technical Program Chair of RTAS-BP 2025, the 31st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Brief Presentation Track.
    • Real-Time Pitches Chair of ECRTS 2025, the 2025 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems.
    • Track Chair at DSD, "Track HSTIEC: Hardware, Software, and Tools for the IoT-to-Edge-to-Cloud Continuum" (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026).
    • Technical Program Chair and Organizer of the RAGE 2022 , the 1st workshop on Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing workshop, in conjunction with DAC 2022.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of:

Professional Service (Journals)

Research Interests

My research is focused on Real-Time Embedded and Distributed Systems.
In particular I'm working on:

  • Real-time schedulability analysis
  • Predictability in middleware frameworks (ROS 2, DDS, and more)
  • Real-time operating systems and hypervisors
  • Synchronization protocols
  • Component-based Software Design
  • Predictability in AI-based Applications

Contacts

Daniel Casini,
Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa (PI), Italy
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (TeCiP Institute, ReTiS Laboratory)
Tel. +39 050 88 2078
daniel.casini@santannapisa.it

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