Marco Mellia is the PIMCity Project Coordinator.

He is full professor at Politecnico di Torino, where he coordinates the SmartData@PoliTO center. His research interests are in traffic monitoring and analysis, and in applications of Big Data and machine learning techniques for traffic analysis, with applications to Cybersecurity, Privacy protection and network monitoring in general. He has co-authored over 200 papers and holds 9 patents.

He was awarded the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize in 2013, and several best paper awards.  He is Area Editor of ACM CCR, and part of the Editorial Board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and of IEEE Transactions of Networks and Service Management. He was program chair of several conferences, including ACM CoNEXT, IEEE TMA, ITC, etc. More information are available here.