The Nexa Center for Internet & Society announces 2015-2016 community

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Turin, 13 June 2015. The Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN) today announces the fellows who will join the Nexa community in the 2015-2016 academic year.

Joining the Nexa community in 2015-2016 a new Faculty Fellow, Marco Torchiano, Associate Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino, and two new Fellows: Arturo Filastò, Vice President of Hermes - Center for transparency and digital human rights and developer at GlobaLeaks and The Tor Project, and Alessio Melandri, student of Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino, Wikipedian, and former intern of the Nexa Center where he still contributes to several software projects.

The new Fellows:

faculty fellowMarco Torchiano - Faculty Fellow
Marco Torchiano is Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Torino, where he is also a member of the Software Engineering Research Group. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He holds the MSc and the PhD in Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino. He is author or co-author of more than 100 articles published in journals and international conferences. He collaborates with the Nexa Center in particular on models of quality assessment of open data.

fellowArturo Filastò - Fellow
Arturo Filastò (@hellais) is Vice President of Hermes - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights and he is a free software developer at GlobaLeaks and The Tor Project. He studied Mathematics and is currently student of Computer Science at Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. He collaborates with the Nexa Center in software development for network measurements, in particular those aimed at identifying cases of censorship.

fellowAlessio Melandri - Fellow
Alessio Melandri is a student of computer engineering at the Politecnico di Torino. He got in contact with the Nexa Center for Internet and Society after the course Rivoluzione Digitale held by Professor Juan Carlos De Martin. He collaborates with the Nexa Center as software developer in several projects, particularly in the context of linked data.

Honoring the ethos of "networking" which is central to an Internet & Society center such as Nexa, the Nexa community is also complemented by four Faculty Associates from Morocco, the Netherlands, the U.S. and Naples, who will actively collaborate with the Nexa Center community through an array of channels.

These relationships, as well as the countless engagements with alumni, partners, students, interns, and other colleagues, are fundamental to the Nexa Center’s work and identity, and serve to increase the capacity of the field.

The Nexa Center remains proud of and grateful to the following returning community members who will retain affiliations at the Nexa Center in the coming year.

Returning as Fellows:

Mauro Alovisio, Giovanni Arata, Claudio Artusio, Eleonora Bassi, Lorenzo Benussi, Enrico Bertacchini, Carlo Blengino, Nicola Bottero, Federico Cairo, Fabio Chiusi, Marco Ciurcina, Alessandro Cogo, Deborah De Angelis, Giulio De Petra, Massimo Durante, Giovanni B. Gallus, Stefano Leucci, Alessandro Mantelero, Ugo Pagallo, Elena Pavan, Cristiana Sappa, Monica A. Senor, Massimo Travostino, Daniele Trinchero, Giuseppe Vaciago.

Returning as Faculty Associates:

Andrea Cairola, Giancarlo Frosio, Thomas Margoni, Giorgio Ventre.

The Nexa Community is also formed by the Nexa Board of Trustees. To further emphasize the growing role of need for a multidisciplinary study on the "Internet & Society" topic, we note with pleasure the participation as lecturers of several Trustees at the excellence course of the Doctoral School of Politecnico di Torino organized by Nexa Center for Internet & Society: Topics in Internet & Society Interdisciplinary Studies.