Robert Birke is an Associate Professor in the Parallel Computing research group at the University of Torino. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, (2009).
He has been a visiting researcher at IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland, and a Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland. His research interests are in the broad area of virtual resource management, including network design, workload characterization, and AI and big-data application optimization, with more than 130 papers at venues related to communication, system performance and machine learning. He serves on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, and Computer Communications (Elsevier). He is a senior member of IEEE.