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Andrea Merlina

Cloud Engineer@Niva PhD@UiO

Niva

University of Oslo

Biography

I am currently a Cloud Engineer at NIVA, the Norwegian Institute for Water research, in the Environmental Data Science group. At the same time I am completing my PhD at the University of Oslo. My research interests include distributed systems, blockchain and machine learning. There, I am part of the Digital Infrastructures and Security research group, currently focusing on permissionless blockchain.

Interests

  • Distributed systems
  • Cloud
  • Blockchain
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • PhD in Blockchain, 2019 -

    University of Oslo, Norway

  • ICT & Internet Engineering, 2016 - 2018

    University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

  • Computer science, 2017

    University of Göttingen, Germany

  • BSc in Internet Engineering, 2012 - 2016

    University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant

University of Oslo

Jan 2020 – Present Oslo, Norway
Have been teaching in the blockchain course about relevant technologies
 
 
 
 
 

IT cybersecurity engineering

enel

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Rome, Italy
Securing IT infrastructure

Accomplish­ments

Machine Learning

Coursera Oct 2018
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. In the past decade, machine learning has given us self-driving cars, practical speech recognition, effective web search, and a vastly improved understanding of the human genome. Machine learning is so pervasive today that you probably use it dozens of times a day without knowing it.
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Recent Posts

A Summary of my PhD

Monday, 01 May 2023 0 min read

Acronyms

When specializing in a field, it is common to use and come across acronyms. In some cases, acronyms break the perimeter of the field …
Monday, 01 May 2023 3 min read

Et Multikulturelt Samfunn

Oslo er en multikulturell by. Det bor mennesker fra mange nasjoner her. Hvilke fordeler og ulemper synes du et multikulturelt samfunn …
Monday, 01 May 2023 2 min read

Debts

Summary: Every time we rip the benefit of something without knowing what’s behind we are contracting a debt. Eating a delicious …
Sunday, 05 Apr 2020 1 min read

Escaping the local optimum of low expectation

Thursday, 02 Apr 2020 1 min read
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Projects

SmartMed

Secure and accountable sharing of medical records using smart contracts and blockchain.

CREDENCE

Collaboration Network for Excellent Education and Research in Dependable and Secure Distributed Systems.

Talks

Blockchain meets Machine Learning

A peek into the technologies and their possible convergence.
Thursday, 05 Mar 2020 13:15 — 13:30 Main campus, University of Oslo
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Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance

And overview of two BFT consensus protocols
Wednesday, 20 Feb 2019 14:15 — 17:00 OJD Seminarrom Shell
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Electronic nose for lung cancer detection

Data analysis on lung cancer based on patient’s breath.
Monday, 20 Feb 2017 14:15 — 17:00 University of Rome Tor Vergata
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