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Paolo Costa is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and has contributed to multiple areas within engineering, with a specific focus on electrical and electronic engineering.

Their research spans a range of subfields including molecular biology, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, and artificial intelligence. The main research topics covered in their work include optical network technologies, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, fungal and yeast genetics research, biofuel production and bioconversion, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, quantum optics and atomic interactions, and advanced fiber laser technologies.

Paolo Costa has published several papers in prominent venues. Recent papers include:

  • Synchronous subnanosecond clock and data recovery for optically switched data centres using clock phase caching, 2020, Nature Electronics
  • Frequency-Stabilized Links for Coherent WDM Fiber Interconnects in the Datacenter, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Re-architecting Traffic Analysis with Neural Network Interface Cards, 2022, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Managed-Retention Memory: A New Class of Memory for the AI Era, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Good things come in small packages: Should we build AI clusters with Lite-GPUs?, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

The frequent coauthors with whom Paolo Costa has collaborated include Hitesh Ballani, Sergey Legtchenko, Junyi Liu, Burcu Canakci, and Dushyanth Narayanan. Their work has appeared in a variety of publication venues besides those listed with recent papers, notably in the Brazilian Journal of Development.

Best Publications

  • Towards predictable datacenter networks

    Hitesh Ballani;Paolo Costa;Thomas Karagiannis;Ant Rowstron

  • Socially-aware routing for publish-subscribe in delay-tolerant mobile ad hoc networks

    P. Costa;C. Mascolo;M. Musolesi;G.P. Picco

  • Symbiotic routing in future data centers

    Hussam Abu-Libdeh;Paolo Costa;Antony Rowstron;Greg O'Shea

  • Camdoop: exploiting in-network aggregation for big data applications

    Paolo Costa;Austin Donnelly;Antony Rowstron;Greg O'Shea

  • The RUNES Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems and its Application in a Disaster Management Scenario

    P. Costa;G. Coulson;R. Gold;M. Lad

  • Sirius: A Flat Datacenter Network with Nanosecond Optical Switching

    Hitesh Ballani;Paolo Costa;Raphael Behrendt;Daniel Cletheroe

  • Towards lightweight information dissemination in inter-vehicular networks

    Paolo Costa;Davide Frey;Matteo Migliavacca;Luca Mottola

  • NaaS: network-as-a-service in the cloud

    Paolo Costa;Matteo Migliavacca;Peter Pietzuch;Alexander L. Wolf

  • Bridging the tenant-provider gap in cloud services

    Virajith Jalaparti;Hitesh Ballani;Paolo Costa;Thomas Karagiannis

  • The RUNES middleware: a reconfigurable component-based approach to networked embedded systems

    P. Costa;G. Coulson;C. Mascolo;G.P. Picco

  • TeenyLIME: transiently shared tuple space middleware for wireless sensor networks

    Paolo Costa;Luca Mottola;Amy L. Murphy;Gian Pietro Picco

  • Programming wireless sensor networks with the TeenyLime middleware

    Paolo Costa;Luca Mottola;Amy L. Murphy;Gian Pietro Picco

  • SABER: Window-Based Hybrid Stream Processing for Heterogeneous Architectures

    Alexandros Koliousis;Matthias Weidlich;Raul Castro Fernandez;Alexander L. Wolf

  • Semi-Probabilistic Content-Based Publish-Subscribe

    P. Costa;G.P. Picco

  • Ultrafast optical circuit switching for data centers using integrated soliton microcombs.

    Arslan Sajid Raja;Sophie Lange;Maxim Karpov;Kai Shi

  • Epidemic algorithms for reliable content-based publish-subscribe: an evaluation

    P. Costa;M. Migliavacca;G.P. Picco;G. Cugola

  • Offering network performance guarantees in multi-tenant datacenters

    Hitesh Ballani;Paolo Costa;Thomas Karagiannis;Antony Rowstron

  • Reconfigurable Component-based Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems

    Paolo Costa;Geoff Coulson;Cecilia Mascolo;Luca Mottola

  • NetAgg: Using Middleboxes for Application-specific On-path Aggregation in Data Centres

    Luo Mai;Lukas Rupprecht;Abdul Alim;Paolo Costa

  • Extending Access Point Connectivity through Opportunistic Routing in Vehicular Networks

    Ilias Leontiadis;Paolo Costa;Cecilia Mascolo

  • Persistent content-based information dissemination in hybrid vehicular networks

    Ilias Leontiadis;Paolo Costa;Cecilia Mascolo

  • Shoal: A Network Architecture for Disaggregated Racks

    Vishal Shrivastav;Asaf Valadarsky;Hitesh Ballani;Paolo Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

Gian Pietro Picco
Gian Pietro Picco University of Trento
Benn C. Thomsen
Benn C. Thomsen Microsoft (United States)
Peter Pietzuch
Peter Pietzuch Imperial College London
Thomas Karagiannis
Thomas Karagiannis Microsoft (United States)
Cecilia Mascolo
Cecilia Mascolo University of Cambridge
Antony Rowstron
Antony Rowstron Microsoft (United States)
Hugh E. Williams
Hugh E. Williams RMIT University
Alexander L. Wolf
Alexander L. Wolf University of California, Santa Cruz
Luca Mottola
Luca Mottola Polytechnic University of Milan
Matthias Weidlich
Matthias Weidlich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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