Massimo Torquati is an associate professor in computer science at the University of Pisa, where he earned his PhD.  He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers in conference proceedings and international journals, mostly related to parallel and distributed computing, parallel programming models, and run-time systems for parallel and distributed computing platforms. He was involved in several Italian, EU, and industry-supported research projects. He is the maintainer and leading FastFlow parallel programming framework developer.

Personal website: https://www.di.unipi.it/~torquati