Lorenzo Rosa

About Me

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, part of the EASL Lab led by Prof. Ana Klimovic within the Systems Group. I am also co-founder of Hazeware Industrial Networking.

My research interests cover a broad spectrum of topics in both networks and systems. In particular, end-host network stacks, kernel-bypass networking, and hardware accelerators. My current research focuses on leveraging these tools to support latency-critical applications in cloud and serverless platforms, particularly in support of Machine Learning workloads.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Bologna in March 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Corradi. My dissertation focused on the design and evaluation a system architecture to simplify the adoption of kernel-bypass networking by cloud applications. Part of my research was carried on in collaboration with Prof. Ken Birman (Cornell University, USA).

If you're interested in my research, or just want to chat about possible collaborations, feel free to reach out. I'm always happy to help and connect.

News

Mar. 2026 - New paper! The paper "Accelerating Inter-App Communications for Time-Critical O-RAN Control Loops" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Networking Letters. Read it here.
Feb. 2026 - Starting from March, I will join the Systems Group at ETH Zurich as a Postdoctoral Researcher, working with Prof. Ana Klimovic.
Jan. 2026 - Hazeware is born! Check it out!
Jan. 2026 - The new website is up!
Dec. 2025 - I presented the "INSANE!" tutorial at ACM/IFIP Middleware 2025. Here is the tutorial website.

Selected Publications

Please find the complete list of my publications on Google Scholar.

[IEEE COMST 2024] Empowering Cloud Computing With Network Acceleration: A Survey
L. Rosa, L. Foschini, A. Corradi
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 26 (4), 2729–2768

[Middleware 2023] INSANE: A Unified Middleware for QoS-aware Network Acceleration in Edge Cloud Computing
L. Rosa, A. Garbugli, A. Corradi, P. Bellavista
24th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference
[code][tutorial]

[IIoT-NETs 2023] Supporting vPLC Networking over TSN with Kubernetes in Industry 4.0
L. Rosa, A. Garbugli, L. Patera, L. Foschini
1st Workshop on Enhanced Network Techniques and Technologies for the Industrial IoT to Cloud Continuum
Co-located with SIGCOMM 2023

[ICC 2023] KuberneTSN: a Deterministic Overlay Network for Time-Sensitive Containerized Environments
A. Garbugli, L. Rosa, A. Bujari, L. Foschini
2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications
[code]

[ComNet 2022] DIFFUSE: A DIstributed and decentralized platForm enabling Function composition in Serverless Environments
A. Sabbioni, L. Rosa, A. Bujari, L. Foschini, A. Corradi
Computer Networks, Volume 210

[ICDCS 2022] Spindle: Techniques for Optimizing Atomic Multicast on RDMA
S. Jha, L. Rosa, K. Birman
2022 IEEE 41st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
[code]

[ICC 2022] A Framework for TSN-enabled Virtual Environments for Ultra-Low Latency 5G Scenarios
A. Garbugli, L. Rosa, L. Foschini, A. Corradi, P. Bellavista
2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications

[MILCOM 2021] DerechoDDS: Strongly Consistent Data Distribution for Mission-Critical Applications
L. Rosa, W. Song, L. Foschini, A. Corradi, K. Birman
2021 IEEE Military Communications Conference

Talks, Posters, and Tutorials

[Tutorial] This is INSANE! Kernel-Bypass Networking Finally Made Easy
ACM/IFIP Middleware 2025 (December 15, 2025).

[Talk] Bringing Network Acceleration in the Cloud Continuum
Systems Group Lunch Seminar, ETH Zurich (February 23, 2024).
Invited by Prof. Ana Klimovic.

[Talk] Empowering Cloud Computing with Network Acceleration as a Service
Systems Group Meeting, TUM Munich (January 11, 2024).
Invited by Prof. Pramod Bhatotia.

[Talk] Hiding complexity behind the fog
International Event on Industry 5.0 to Enhance Cooperation among Academic and Industry Promoted by UNIBO, Cornell, and Campinas
Italian Academic Center (IAC) @ TATA Innovation Center Roosevelt Island - New York City (September 15, 2023)

[Poster] INSANE: A Uniform API for QoS-aware Host Networking as a Service
EuroSys 2023 (May 9, 2023).

[Poster] INSANE - A Uniform Middleware API for Differentiated Quality using Heterogeneous Acceleration Techniques at the Network Edge
ICDCS 2022 (July 11, 2022).

[Talk] Reducing Delays In RDMA-based Communication
Real-Time Innovations HQ, Sunnyvale, CA, USA (February 20, 2020).
Invited talk.

[Tutorial] Derecho: Blindingly Fast RDMA Replication for Cloud and Edge Services
Tutor for the demo at the AI Sys workshop
SOSP 2019 (October 27, 2019).

Service

I have been the registration co-chair for IEEE ISCC 2025.

I have served in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of:

IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) (2025-2026)
IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS) (2025)

I also served as a reviewer for the following conferences and journals: IEEE European Wireless, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE ICNC; IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

Teaching

I have served as a Teaching Assistant for the following courses at the University of Bologna:

Computer Networks Fall 2021, 2022, 2023
Foundations of Computer Science (Java) Spring 2018, 2019, 2022
Software Engineering Spring 2018

I have co-supervised both Bachelor and Master theses at the University of Bologna. If you are interested in working with me, please reach out!