Francesco Pasquale

Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Impresa "M. Lucertini"
Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
— Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it.
— George Pòlya

Contacts

Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1 - 00133 Roma, Italy

Edificio: Sogene - Primo Piano - Corridoio B1 - Stanza 1212

Tel.:	+39 06 7259 4670
E-mail:	pasquale@mat.uniroma2.it
E-mail:	francesco.pasquale@uniroma2.it
OpenPGP:	0xBF979C2A

Short Bio

July 2005: M.Sc. in Mathematics, cum laude, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" (advised by Andrea Clementi)
March 2009: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila (advised by Andrea Clementi and Michele Flammini)
June 2009 - October 2016: Postdoc at Università degli Studi di Salerno, Sapienza Università di Roma, and Università di Roma "Tor Vergata".
November 2016 - October 2019: Assistant Professor at Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Since November 2019: Associate Professor at Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Research interests

Distributed computing; Randomized algorithms; Markov chains; Game theory; Cryptocurrency.
I am broadly interested in "randomness and computing". My research so far focused mainly on design and analysis of randomized distributed algorithms. My overall long-term research plan is to make my contribution to the understanding of the role that randomness plays in computer science.

Publications

A.A. 2026-2027

Primo semestre: Logica e Reti Logiche (CdL in Informatica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")

A.A. 2025-2026

Secondo semestre: Principles of Cryptocurrency Design (CdL Magistrale in Informatica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")
Primo semestre: Logica e Reti Logiche (CdL in Informatica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")