Salvatore Carta graduated received a PhD in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Cagliari in 2003.

In 2005 joined Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari as Assistant Professor.

In 2006 and 2007 he visited the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as invited Professor, hosted by Laboratoire des Systèmes Intégrés – LSI.

Since 2014 he is Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Cagliari.

The research activity of Salvatore Carta focuses on architectures, software and tools for embedded and portable computing, with particular emphasis on Software infrastructures, algorithms and applications for multiprocessor-system-on-chip, low power real-time scheduling algorithms, and Networks-on-Chip.

Recently, he has focussed on topics related to the social Web, ubiquitous computing and computational societies. In particular he works on algorithms for social search and recommendation, and on algorithms and strategies in the fields of mobile Human Computer Interaction and Mobile Health.

He is author of more than 60 papers in these fields (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004254388).

Salvatore Carta is co-founder of the Trustworthy Computational Societies Research Group at the Mathematics and Computer Science Department of the University of Cagliari. He is also co-founder and CEO of Xorovo Srl (www.xorovo.com, www.applixgroup.com), and co-founder of Everywheresport Srl (www.u4fit.com), both spin-off of the University of Cagliari.