Work experience

March 2024 – current

TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology)

University Assistant (Post-doc)

Researcher in the Cyber-Physical Systems unit at the Institute for Informatics.

May 2022 – February 2024

University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Post-doc

Researcher in the Formal Methods unit at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, working on project D-SynMA (Distributed Synthesis from Single to Multiple Agents).

November 2020 – April 2022

Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, France

Post-doc

Researcher at team CONVECS (Construction of Verified Concurrent Systems).

December 2019 – October 2020

IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

Research Project Grant on "Verification of Emerging Properties in Collective Adaptive Systems" within the SysMA (System Modelling and Analysis) research unit.

March 2019 – July 2019

Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, France

Visiting PhD Student

Visiting at team CONVECS (Construction of Verified Concurrent Systems). Modeling and verification of concurrent (multi-agent) systems.

  • CADP verification toolbox
  • LNT process calculus

June 2015 – February 2016

Thales Alenia Space Italia, L'Aquila, Italy

Internship (Workshop Planning and Lines Industrialization)

Maintenance of legacy systems involved in production traceability; data and business logic migration to SQL Server; maintenance and development of the in-house client application.

  • Office (Excel, Access) and VBA
  • Microsoft SQL Server and ODBC

January 2015 – current

Associazione Italiana Guide e Scout d’Europa Cattolici

Volunteer (National IT Patrol)

Collaborator in the development of the association website. Programmer for in-house web applications.

  • ASP.Net Web API
  • PHP
  • Wordpress
  • Javascript + JQuery

January – March 2015

Aubay Research & Technologies SpA, Carsoli, Italy

Internship

Design of a digital publishing platform with a cross-platform mobile client (Android, Windows Phone).

  • ASP.Net Web API
  • C#
  • Windows Communication Foundation
  • Java and Android framework
  • Xamarin

Education

2016 – 2020

PhD in Computer Science

Gran Sasso Science Institute

Thesis: “Modelling and Verification of Multi-Agent Systems via Sequential Emulation”. Link: ResearchGate

2014 – 2016

Master’s Degree in Computer and Systems Engineering cum laude

University of L'Aquila

Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica. Master’s thesis topic: Design of a reactive obstacle avoidance system for UAVs.

2009 – 2014

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Systems Engineering

University of L'Aquila

Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica. Bachelor’s thesis topic: Design and implementation of a digital publishing platform, featuring a cross-platform mobile client.

2004 – 2009

Liceo Classico degree

Istituto d'istruzione superiore "D. Cotugno"

Publications

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  2024 (4)
Compositional verification of priority systems using sharp bisimulation. Luca Di Stefano; and Frédéric Lang. Formal Methods Syst. Des., 62(1): 1–40. 2024.
Compositional verification of priority systems using sharp bisimulation [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Emerging Synchrony in Applauding Audiences: Formal Analysis and Specification. Luca Di Stefano; and Omar Inverso. In Tiziana Margaria; and Bernhard Steffen., editor(s), Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. REoCAS Colloquium in Honor of Rocco De Nicola - 12th International Symposium, ISoLA 2024, Crete, Greece, October 27-31, 2024, Proceedings, Part I, volume 15219, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 253–270, 2024. Springer
Emerging Synchrony in Applauding Audiences: Formal Analysis and Specification [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Attributed Point-to-Point Communication in R-CHECK. Yehia Abd Alrahman; Shaun Azzopardi; Luca Di Stefano; and Nir Piterman. In Tiziana Margaria; and Bernhard Steffen., editor(s), Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Rigorous Engineering of Collective Adaptive Systems - 12th International Symposium, ISoLA 2024, Crete, Greece, October 27-31, 2024, Proceedings, Part II, volume 15220, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 333–350, 2024. Springer
Attributed Point-to-Point Communication in R-CHECK [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs, FTfJP 2024, Vienna, Austria, 20 September 2024. Luca Di Stefano., editor. ACM. 2024.
Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs, FTfJP 2024, Vienna, Austria, 20 September 2024 [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
  2023 (5)
Modelling flocks of birds and colonies of ants from the bottom up. Rocco De Nicola; Luca Di Stefano; Omar Inverso; and Serenella Valiani. Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf., 25(5): 675–691. 2023.
Modelling flocks of birds and colonies of ants from the bottom up [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Language support for verifying reconfigurable interacting systems. Yehia Abd Alrahman; Shaun Azzopardi; Luca Di Stefano; and Nir Piterman. Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf., 25(5): 765–784. 2023.
Language support for verifying reconfigurable interacting systems [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Intuitive Modelling and Formal Analysis of Collective Behaviour in Foraging Ants. Rocco De Nicola; Luca Di Stefano; Omar Inverso; and Serenella Valiani. In Jun Pang; and Joachim Niehren., editor(s), Computational Methods in Systems Biology - 21st International Conference, CMSB 2023, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, September 13-15, 2023, Proceedings, volume 14137, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 44–61, 2023. Springer
Intuitive Modelling and Formal Analysis of Collective Behaviour in Foraging Ants [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Compositional Verification of Stigmergic Collective Systems. Luca Di Stefano; and Frédéric Lang. In Cezara Dragoi; Michael Emmi; and Jingbo Wang., editor(s), Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation - 24th International Conference, VMCAI 2023, Boston, MA, USA, January 16-17, 2023, Proceedings, volume 13881, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 155–176, 2023. Springer
Compositional Verification of Stigmergic Collective Systems [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
LTL Synthesis on Infinite-State Arenas defined by Programs. Shaun Azzopardi; Nir Piterman; Gerardo Schneider; and Luca Di Stefano. CoRR, abs/2307.09776. 2023.
LTL Synthesis on Infinite-State Arenas defined by Programs [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
  2022 (4)
Automated replication of tuple spaces via static analysis. Rocco De Nicola; Luca Di Stefano; Omar Inverso; and Aline Uwimbabazi. Sci. Comput. Program., 223: 102863. 2022.
Automated replication of tuple spaces via static analysis [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Verification of Distributed Systems via Sequential Emulation. Luca Di Stefano; Rocco De Nicola; and Omar Inverso. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., 31(3): 37:1–37:41. 2022.
Verification of Distributed Systems via Sequential Emulation [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Process Algebras and Flocks of Birds. Rocco De Nicola; Luca Di Stefano; Omar Inverso; and Serenella Valiani. In Nils Jansen; Mariëlle Stoelinga; and Petra Bos., editor(s), A Journey from Process Algebra via Timed Automata to Model Learning - Essays Dedicated to Frits Vaandrager on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, volume 13560, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 512–523, 2022. Springer
Process Algebras and Flocks of Birds [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Modelling Flocks of Birds from the Bottom Up. Rocco De Nicola; Luca Di Stefano; Omar Inverso; and Serenella Valiani. In Tiziana Margaria; and Bernhard Steffen., editor(s), Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Adaptation and Learning - 11th International Symposium, ISoLA 2022, Rhodes, Greece, October 22-30, 2022, Proceedings, Part III, volume 13703, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 82–96, 2022. Springer
Modelling Flocks of Birds from the Bottom Up [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
  2021 (2)
Verifying Temporal Properties of Stigmergic Collective Systems Using CADP. Luca Di Stefano; and Frédéric Lang. In Tiziana Margaria; and Bernhard Steffen., editor(s), Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation - 10th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, ISoLA 2021, Rhodes, Greece, October 17-29, 2021, Proceedings, volume 13036, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 473–489, 2021. Springer
Verifying Temporal Properties of Stigmergic Collective Systems Using CADP [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Replication Package for the paper: Verification of Distributed Systems via Sequential Emulation (Version 1.0). Luca Di Stefano; Rocco De Nicola; and Omar Inverso. ˘rlhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5348289, September 2021. Accessed on YYYY-MM-DD.
Replication Package for the paper: Verification of Distributed Systems via Sequential Emulation (Version 1.0) [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
  2020 (2)
Multi-agent systems with virtual stigmergy. Rocco De Nicola; Luca Di Stefano; and Omar Inverso. Sci. Comput. Program., 187: 102345. 2020.
Multi-agent systems with virtual stigmergy [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Combining SLiVER with CADP to Analyze Multi-agent Systems. Luca Di Stefano; Frédéric Lang; and Wendelin Serwe. In Simon Bliudze; and Laura Bocchi., editor(s), Coordination Models and Languages - 22nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, COORDINATION 2020, Held as Part of the 15th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2020, Valletta, Malta, June 15-19, 2020, Proceedings, volume 12134, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 370–385, 2020. Springer
Combining SLiVER with CADP to Analyze Multi-agent Systems [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
  2018 (3)
Toward Formal Models and Languages for Verifiable Multi-Robot Systems. Rocco De Nicola; Luca Di Stefano; and Omar Inverso. Frontiers Robotics AI, 5: 94. 2018.
Toward Formal Models and Languages for Verifiable Multi-Robot Systems [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Multi-agent Systems with Virtual Stigmergy. Rocco De Nicola; Luca Di Stefano; and Omar Inverso. In Manuel Mazzara; Iulian Ober; and Gwen Salaün., editor(s), Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations - STAF 2018 Collocated Workshops, Toulouse, France, June 25-29, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, volume 11176, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 351–366, 2018. Springer
Multi-agent Systems with Virtual Stigmergy [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex  
Towards formal models and languages for verifiable Multi-Robot Systems. Rocco De Nicola; Luca Di Stefano; and Omar Inverso. CoRR, abs/1804.08091. 2018.
Towards formal models and languages for verifiable Multi-Robot Systems [link]Paper   link   bibtex  
  2017 (1)
Reactive Obstacle Avoidance for Multicopter UAVs via Evaluation of Depth Maps. Luca Di Stefano; Eliseo Clementini; and Enrico Stagnini. In Paolo Fogliaroni; Andrea Ballatore; and Eliseo Clementini., editor(s), Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2017, September 4-8, 2017, L'Aquila, Italy, of Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, pages 41–43, 2017. Springer
Reactive Obstacle Avoidance for Multicopter UAVs via Evaluation of Depth Maps [link]Paper   doi   link   bibtex