His current research interests include Internet measurements, quality of experience and network security. He is particularly interested on how big data and data science techniques can help to extract knowledge from traffic data and help automating network management tasks. Drago has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and a Master's degree from the Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil. He was awarded an Applied Networking Research Prize in 2013 by the IETF/IRTF for his work on cloud storage traffic analysis. He is now a member of the SmartData@PoliTO Center in the Politecnico di Torino, a research center in which more than 30 students, professors, and researchers are working on big data and data science applications.