He received the B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2002, 2004, and 2008, respectively. In 2006-2007, he was a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests are in control, information theory, and complex networks.