She got the Laurea degree summa cum laude in computer engineering from the same university in 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Parma in March 2006. During the Ph.D., she spent eight months as a Visiting Researcher at the AT&T Research Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey. Her research interests include distributed architectures for Internet-based services, social networks, and wireless systems for mobile Web access.