Silvano Gai - Curriculum Vitae
Born in Asti, Italy, on January 20, 1957. He received the Dr. Eng. degree in electronic engineering from Politecnico di Torino.
From 1990 he has been a professor of Computer Networks at Politecnico di Torino, a public University in the North-West of Italy.
From 1983 to 1990 he was with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (C.N.R.), the Italian National Council for Scientific Research.
From 1986 his primary interests have been on the first three levels of the OSI model and in particular on internetworking (bridging, switching, routing).
His current research topics include: high speed Ethernets, virtual LANs, multilayer switching, IPv.4, IP over ATM, IPv.6 and Multicast applications.
His original scientific work (1981-1986) was in the field of fault simulation of digital circuits.
He participated to the design of the "Italian Research Network" and of the "Italian Public Administration Network".
In 1995 he has been the president at the European level of the IRISI pilot project of the European Union on the Information Society.
In 1995 he wrote a book titled "Computer Network: from cabling to internetworking" that is currently used as the classical course book in the Italian Universities.
In 1997 he wrote for McGraw-Hill Italia the book "Guide to IPv6".
Currently he is with Cisco System, San Jose, CA.
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Silvano Gai
Last modified:
February 16, 2008