PostDoc Researcher, ETH Zurich

Department of Computer Science
Information and Communication Systems Group
Institute for Pervasive Computing

oriva (at) inf.ethz.ch

Office: IFW B 46.2
Address: Haldeneggsteig 4
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 632 71 22


I'm currently a PostDoc Researcher in the Systems group at the Department of Computer Science (D-INFK) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ). In November 2007, I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Helsinki (Finland) under the supervision of Prof. Kimmo Raatikainen. Prior to that, in 2003, I received my engineering degree in telecommunications from Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

My research focuses on building system architectures, protocols and middleware for pervasive computing systems running on resource-constrained mobile devices. I'm very interested in applied research and in particular in programming mobile phones and experimenting with real-world prototype applications. My research interests include cloud computing infrastructures, middleware services for personal mobile applications, and overlay networks.

News and Announcements

Recent Publications

[Full list of publications]

[1]
I. Giurgiu, O. Riva, D. Juric, I. Krivulev, and G. Alonso. Calling the cloud: Enabling mobile phones as interfaces to cloud applications. In Proceedings of the 10th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'09). Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., November 30 - December 4 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]
[2]
O. Riva and J. Kangasharju. Challenges and Lessons in Developing Middleware on Smart Phones. IEEE Computer, October 2008. [ bib | .pdf ]
[3]
J. S. Rellermeyer, O. Riva, and G. Alonso. AlfredO: An Architecture for Flexible Interaction with Electronic Devices. In Proceedings of the 9th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'08), December 1-5 2008. [ bib | .pdf ]
[4]
O. Riva, T. Nadeem, C. Borcea, and L. Iftode. Context-aware Migratory Services in Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 6(12):1313-1328, December 2007. [ bib | http | .pdf ]
[5]
O. Riva. Middleware for Mobile Sensing Applications in Urban Environments. Phd thesis, University of Helsinki, November 2007. [ bib | .pdf ]
[6]
O. Riva and C. Borcea. The Urbanet Revolution: Sensor Power to the People! IEEE Pervasive Magazine, 6(2):41-49, April-June 2007. [ bib | http | .pdf ]

Teaching

Projects and Activities

I'm currently involved in the following projects at ETHZ:

In the past I worked in the following projects:

Software

During my Phd I produced this open source software:

Talks