Giuseppe Serazzi is emeritus professor at the Politecnico di Milano since 2015, where he has been professor since 1991, and retired in Nov. 2013. He received the Laurea degree in Mathematics from University of Pavia, Italy. He taught at the University of Pavia, the State University of Milano, the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Lugano USI Switzerland. He co-authored 180+ papers (see the publication list), 15 of these being books (amongst others Measurement and Tuning of Computer Systems - Prentice Hall 1983, E-business start-up - McGraw-Hill - 2001, Performance Engineering - Springer 2023).
His research interests included performance engineering of enterprise infrastructures, workload characterization, modelling techniques and tools for capacity planning of very large systems. In the 90’s he was the initiator, and still is one of the coordinators, of the JMT open-source project (Java Modelling Tools for performance engineering of computing infrastructures) which have been downloaded 95K+ times to date from http://jmt.sourceforge.net. On 2013 Imperial College London (prof. G.Casale) joined the coordination of the project.
He held visiting positions at University of California - Berkeley, INRIA Paris, University of Maryland, College Park, and Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
His research activities have been done in collaboration with many foreign universities and research labs (see joint publications with researchers of all these institutions in the publication list). He has been a Program Committee member of important international conferences in the performance evaluation area and Conference Chair of two of them. From 1993 to 2000 he was in the editorial board of Performance Evaluation Journal, Elsevier.
From 1961 to 1978 he worked for Olivetti SpA in the research labs of S.Giuliano and Pregnana Milanese. He was involved in the development of hardware equipments including the “reader of magnetic characters CMC7”, the “Auditronic 770”, and the “P101”, the prototype of the PC, coordinated by Ing. Perotto. From 1969 to 1978 he worked at Syntax, a software company held by Olivetti. In 2000 he founded the Acceleratore d’Impresa, the incubator of the Politecnico di Milano for high-tech start-ups, and he was the director until the end of 2006. From 2004 to 2010 he was the Rector’s Delegate for the Acceleratore d’impresa. He has been a board member of: (2004-2008) Gate 2 Growth Initiative an European Network of technology incubators - DG Enterprise, (2005-2011) President of AIU Italian Association of the University Incubators, (2007-2011) the Foundation of the Politecnico di Milano.
For more info see the CV. and publication list
