Francesco Restuccia

Assistant Professor,  Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office

  • 617.373.3655

Research Focus

Mobile computing, machine learning, wireless communications, embedded systems

About

Dr. Restuccia’s research is supported by research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. He is the recipient of the 2023 ONR Young Investigator Award, 2023 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, and 2019 Mario Gerla Award in Computer Science, and received Best Paper Awards at IEEE INFOCOM and IEEE WOWMOM. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, Missouri S&T, 2016
  • MS in Computer Engineering, University of Pisa, 2011
  • BS in Computer Engineering, University of Pisa, 2009

Honors & Awards

  • 2023 AFOSR Young Investigator Award
  • 2023 ONR Young Investigator Award
  • 2022 IEEE WOWMOM Best Paper Award
  • 2022 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award
  • 2021 Communications of the ACM Research Highlight
  • 2020 ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight
  • 2019 Mario Gerla Young Investigator Award

Professional Affiliations

  • IEEE Senior Member
  • ACM Senior Member

Research Overview

Mobile computing, machine learning, wireless communications, embedded systems

Selected Research Projects

Research Centers and Institutes

Selected Publications

  • F. Restuccia, T. Melodia, DeepWiERL: Bringing Deep Reinforcement Learning to the Internet of Self-Adaptive Things, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2020
  • F. Restuccia, T. Melodia, PolymoRF: Polymorphic Wireless Receivers Through Physical-Layer Deep Learning, Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc, October 2020
  • S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, F. Restuccia, M. Polese, M. Zorzi, T. Melodia, Sl-EDGE: Network Slicing at the Edge, Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc, October 2020
  • S. D’Oro, F. Restuccia, T. Melodia, Toward Operator-to-Waveform 5G Radio Access Network Slicing, IEEE Communications Magazine, 58(4), 2020

Faculty

Sep 19, 2024

Revolutionizing Edge Computing With Superconducting Deep Neural Networks

ECE Assistant Professors Marco Colangelo and Francesco Restuccia were awarded a two-year $500,000 DARPA grant for “Superconducting Deep Neural Networks at the Edge.” They aim to reduce end-to-end processing latency by at least three orders of magnitude compared to existing edge computing paradigms without impacting AI performance.

Faculty

May 08, 2024

Patent for Early Health Alerts From Implanted Medical Devices

ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia and ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia were awarded a patent for “Embedded networked deep learning for implanted medical devices.”

Undergraduate

May 07, 2024

Summer 2024 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research

Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Summer 2024 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Faculty

Apr 09, 2024

Patent for Advanced Methods in Enforcing Network Slicing Policies

ECE Assistant Research Professor Salvatore D’oro, Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, and Professor Tommaso Melodia were awarded a patent for “Methods for the enforcement of network slicing policies in virtualized cellular networks.”

Faculty

Apr 04, 2024

Patent for Transforming Wireless Communication With Deep Learning

ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia were awarded a patent for “Deep learning-based polymorphic platform.”

Faculty

Feb 26, 2024

Northeastern Among Top 100 Universities for Utility Patents

Northeastern University, recognized for its excellence in innovation and entrepreneurship, has once again been named one of the top 100 universities worldwide for securing utility patents by the National Academy of Inventors.

Faculty

Dec 07, 2023

2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations

The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.

Faculty

Nov 29, 2023

Patent for Protecting Wireless Systems From Adversarial Attacks

ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia, Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, and Assistant Research Professor Salvatore D’oro were awarded a patent for “Neural Network for Adversarial Deep Learning in Wireless Systems.”

Francesco Restuccia

Faculty

Sep 25, 2023

$2M NSF Award for Designing New Chips for AI-Enabled Spectrum Perception

ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, in collaboration with Arjuna Madanayake from Florida International University, Vishal Saxena from the University of Delaware, and Jia Di from the University of Arkansas, was awarded a $2M NSF grant for “FuSe: Deep Learning and Signal Processing Using Silicon Photonics and Digital CMOS Circuits for Ultra-Wideband Spectrum Perception.”

Faculty

Aug 11, 2023

Developing Secure Next-Generation Cellular Networks

ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia, and Khoury Associate Professor Alina Oprea were awarded a $900,000 NSF grant for “Resilient-by-Design Data-Driven NextG Open Radio Access Networks.”

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