Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica e gestionale

Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela  was born in 1954 and graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1977. From 1981 to 1987 he was a researcher at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley in 1982-1983. In 1987 he has been appointed full professor at the University of Aquila.
Since 1991 he is full  Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", where he currently teaches courses in computer models, encryption and network security, privacy in the information society.

He is now Director of the  Research Center of Cyber Intelligence and Information Security (CIS). 
In 2013 - 2018  he was  Director of the Department of Computer Engineering, Automatic and managerial Antonio Ruberti, University of Rome "La Sapienza"; and in 2015-2019 of the Master in "Sicurezza delle informazionie Informazione strategica".

His main research interests concern algorithm analysis and design, and their applications to computational biology, networks and real time systems.
He has published more than 160 publications in journals and conferences papers and book chapters, receiving more than 7500 citations (database google scholar). He has co-authored the  book “Complexity and approximation: Combinatorial optimization problems and their approximability properties” (Springer Verlag, three editions) that received more than 2200 citations; he has edited eight  proceedings of international peer reviewed conferences and has written five textbook in Italian.

He has given invited lectures at Sirocco '98 (Amalfi), SOFSEM '98 (Jasna, Slovakia), XXIV Dutch Conference on Mathematics of Operations Research, 1999 (Lunteren, Netherlands), School of Randomized Algorithms (Santorini, Greece 1997), MFCS 1998 (Brno, Czech Rep.), WSDAAL 99 (L'Aquila), School of optimization algorithms for the improvements of the rail system (Costanza, 2000), AEOLUS workshop (Nice, France 2007) DFG workshop networks (Freiburg, Germany 2007), Workshop on approximate algorithms (Kalkata, India 2006), WG 2011 Workshop on Graphtheoretic concepts in computer science (Tepla, Czech Rep.), 2013 ECCO (European Conference in Combinatorial Optimization, Paris, France). He has also given several invited lectures at the  Dagstuhl Center (Germany), Aussois (France)  and Bertinoro that organize invitations in computer science workshops.