Sebastiano Miano is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. He received both an M.S. and Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in Computer and Control Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin in 2016 and 2020 respectively. In 2019, he joined the Networks Group at the University of Cambridge, UK as a Visiting Ph.D. student, under the supervision of Prof. Andrew W. Moore. From 2020 to 2023, he served as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Queen Mary University of London in the Network Research Group led by Prof. Gianni Antichi.

His current research domain primarily involves innovating mechanisms and architectures to improve host-based network applications, with a focus on in-kernel programmability with eBPF and XDP. The current research is centered on full-stack network programmability, aiming to leverage every programmable layer of the end-host networking stack (from programmable hardware up to user-space) for optimal performance and resource use. This research direction calls for a multidisciplinary approach, fusing methods from network protocol design, programming languages, operating systems, compilers, hardware architecture, and formal verification.