I'm Simone and I am a research engineer. Below is a short summary of my experience:
- ✨ Ten years of experience measuring internet performance and internet censorship.
- ✨ Wrote an maintained the network measurement engines used by OONI in 2014-2024.
- ✨ Let the development of the next-generation Network Diagnostic Tool (ndt7) used by M-Lab.
- ✨ Led the development of the Network neutrality bot in 2010-2020.
- ✨ Worked at OONI (2019-2024) and Nexa Center (2010-2017).
- ✨ OTF Information Controls Fellow in 2017-2018.
- ✨ Participated to the TOP-IX BIG DIVE training program in 2015.
- ✨ PhD in computer science in 2014 at POLITO with J.C. De Martin.
- ✨ Mentored several BSc, MEng, and GSoC students.
You can read my CV on LinkedIn and see my publications on Scholar.
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neubot/dash: I still maintain this project, which implements a client and server for the Neubot DASH streaming experiment.
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ooni/probe-cli: I maintained and led the development of this project (and the OONI measurement engine written in Go) between 2019 and 2024.
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bassosimone/websteps-illustrated: I wrote this new experimental experiment for exploring improving websites blocking measurement techniques in 2022-2024 and incorporated core ideas into OONI Web Connectivity v0.5 experiment.
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measurement-kit/measurement-kit: I wrote and maintained this library between 2013 and 2020 to provide an OONI, Neubot, and NDTv5 measurement engine. Measurement Kit was used by OONI (in 2017-2020) as well as other integrators to perform network performance and internet censorship measurements.
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m-lab/ndt-server: I contributed to this repository in 2018-2020 to implement the next-generation Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) iteration, also known as ndt7.
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neubot/neubot: I wrote this project as a doctoral student and maintained it between 2010 and 2020 (with most of the development and the related research papers happening in 2010-2014 during my doctorate).