Lorenzo Ghiro
Assistant Professor, PhD in Information and Communication Technology, University of Brescia, Italy
CNIT - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni
My research spans two main areas. The first is cooperative vehicular networking: I study platoon formation and coordination algorithms, heterogeneous CACC coexistence, and real-time detection of misbehaving nodes in safety-critical V2X scenarios, combining simulation-based evaluation (OMNeT++, SUMO, Veins, Plexe) with hybrid model/AI approaches. The second is wireless privacy: I design and experimentally validate PHY-layer mechanisms that prevent unauthorized CSI-based localization and sensing, including open-source implementations on programmable radio platforms (openwifi/FPGA).
Recent research directions include:
- distributed platoon formation and coordination via V2X communication;
- hybrid model-based and data-driven misbehavior detection for safety-critical platooning;
- stochastic and AI-assisted modeling of wireless sensing;
- digital twin frameworks for networked Intelligent Transport Systems;
Earlier work during my PhD covered distributed algorithms for network centrality and routing, and blockchain integration in IoT and community-network contexts.
Keywords: V2X, Cooperative Driving, CACC, Misbehavior Detection, Wireless Privacy, CSI Sensing, Distributed Algorithms
A MEC-Based Optimization Framework for Dynamic Inductive Charging
E. Akiskaloglu, M. Atmaca, L. Ghiro, G. Perin and R. Lo Cigno.
IEEE VNC 2026
preprint arxiv
Github
Physics Joins AI: A Real-Time Hybrid Misbehavior Detection Framework for Vehicular Networks
L. Ghiro, C. Pezzoni, M. Franceschini, R. Lo Cigno.
Computer Communications, vol. 252, p. 108519, 2026. DOI →
About me
I am an Assistant Professor (RTD-a) at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, where I am part of the ANS Lab directed by Prof. Francesco Gringoli and Prof. Renato Lo Cigno.
I received my BSc (2014), MSc (2017, cum laude), and PhD (2021) in Computer Science from the University of Trento, advised by Prof. Renato Lo Cigno and Prof. Leonardo Maccari. My PhD thesis focused on Centrality Routing and Blockchain Technologies in Distributed Networks. From 2021 to 2023 I was a Postdoctoral Researcher between the University of Trento and the University of Brescia. In 2019–2020 I was a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University, Boston (USA), hosted by Prof. Stefano Basagni within the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things.