Marco Seravalli

Design and development of a Hadoop-based system to be used as computing framework. - Deployment of the technology stack on top of a Windows based environment. - Development of a client-server based application for receiving the computing requests. - Creation of a Map-Reduce based Mathematical toolbox for financial and statistical computations. - Performance assessment of the new system and comparison to the technologies currently employed in the workflow.

BGCE Honours Project. Design and core implementation of a monitoring system for embedded controllers ARM based using Prolog and symbolic reasoning for complex event processing. - Responsible for coordinating the overall design of the software system, the technical development and the deployment.

The Intel ExaScience Lab focuses on software development for the future exascale computer systems delivering 1000 times the performance of current fastest supercomputers. - Research for new patterns to be applied in parallel systems for improving performance. - Tuning and optimization of a ‘Particle In Cell’ simulator.

Tuning of the PDE framework Peano. - Identification and description of generic high performance computing and performance tuning patterns for C++ codes. - Description of refactoring techniques. - Identification of improvements for state-of-the art tools (automatic identification of parts of the code that could benefit from performance patterns).

Working with the Hedging and Derivate Strategies team on the development of a new pricing platform. - Systematic IT-consolidation, preparation, and analysis of relevant portfolio data (via interfaces to external providers of capital market data). - Design of data models for financial instruments and their implementation. - Design and implementation of parts of the new architecture for importing financial data.

Eurotech is an international company active in the research, development and marketing of miniaturized and high performance computers. - Setup of a draft of the business continuity and disaster recovery plan, through a deep and careful analysis of all business processes within the firm.

Design and implementation of Web-based system for an event enrolment process with different privilege access. - Java EE based system. - Transaction based system using MySQL. - XHTML, CSS and Javascript for the front end.

Honours Program extending the regular Master’s programs by several academic with additional courses in the scientific computing area, courses and seminars on soft skills and an additional semester project.

Core Topics: Scientific Computing, Numerical Analysis, Visualization and Image Processing, Parallel and Distributed Computing. Master Thesis: 'A High Performance Data-Intensive Platform for Statistical and Financial Simulations'.

Classes attended: Stochastic Processes, Computer Graphics, Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms, Recreational Programming, Strategic Management and Introduction to Philosophy.

Multilingual university (English, German, Italian). Core Topics: Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Database Management Systems, Economics and Business Administration. Bachelor Thesis: 'A Web Based Tool for the Management of Bibliographic data'.