Ilario Filippini is Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of Politecnico di Milano. He received his M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering and Ph.D. in Information Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2005 and 2009, respectively.
From February 2008 to August 2008, he was visiting the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of The Ohio State University in Columbus (OH) working on routing in Cognitive Radio Networks. Ilario is a member of the Advanced Network Technologies Laboratory (ANTLab - http://www.antlab.polimi.it/).


He works on networking topics, his main research activities include radio resource management in wireless networks, software-defined networks, network planning, and optimization. He is author of more than 50 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers. His research has been developed in collaborations with industrial partners like Vodafone Italia, Huawei Technologies, Nokia Bell Labs. He serves in the Technical Program Committee of major conferences in networking and he is Editor of Computer Networks (Elsevier). Ilario is a Senior Member of the IEEE.