Massimo Tornatore is a Professor in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has also held  appointments as adjunct  professor at the University of California, Davis, and as visiting professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research activities are both industrial-based and more speculative, and leverage methodologies in the areas of network optimization, network automation and management, and machine learning. With his research group, he explores new solutions for enhanced resiliency and cost/energy efficiency in all the segments of the Internet (transport, metro, access and datacom). The final goal is to offer a reliable network infrastructure to support our present and future society through Smart Cities, Smart Infrastructures, and more generaly, advanced network services.

In these areas, he has co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers (https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=50-RA6kAAAAJ&hl=it), often in  collaborations with industrial parters as Nokia Bell Labs,  SIAE microelettronica, and Huawei.

He is a Fellow of IEEE, and a current member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Communication Survey and Tutorial and IEEE Communication Letters.