Dr. Dora Spenza

Biography
Dora Spenza is a Postdoc researcher at the Department of Computer Science of Sapienza University and member of the SENSES (Sensor network and embedded systems) laboratory. She holds a B.S. (2006, cum laude), a M.S. (2009, cum laude) and a PhD (2013) in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome. In 2011, she was a visiting scholar at the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Penn State University, USA. Her research interests concern green and energy-efficient sensing systems, with an emphasis on energy-harvesting and radio-triggering techniques for wireless sensor networks and on resource allocation and tasking for environmental and structural monitoring. Dora Spenza has been part of the organizing committee of ACM SenSys 2013, IEEE WiNMeE 2014, ACM WUWNET 2014 and IEEE IQ2S 2016. She is PI of a Sapienza research grant on green sensing systems. Dora Spenza is the recipient of the 2010 Google European Doctoral Fellowship in Wireless Networking.