Lorenzo Asquini

About Me

I am a Computer Science Master's student at ETH Zurich, pursuing a major in Data Management Systems and a minor in Information Security.
My focus is on software-hardware co-design and developing hardware-specific software to maximize efficiency and speed. I am also interested in applying these computing techniques to solve complex problems in finance.

Work Experience

Optiver

Software Engineer Intern (Amsterdam, NL)

Internship | July 2025 - August 2025

I worked on designing and implementing a server to automate trade confirmations using the FIX protocol, saving tens of minutes daily and reducing errors in trade handling.

ETH Zürich

Student Teaching Assistant (Zürich, CH)

Part-time | February 2025 - May 2025

I was responsible for helping prepare and grade homework assignments for the Advanced Systems Lab course.

Synthara

Software Engineer Intern (Zürich, CH)

Internship | June 2024 - September 2024

I worked on implementing and integrating multiple features in a functional simulation model written in C++ to accurately replicate Synthara's custom hardware behavior.
I was responsible for designing, implementing, and deploying automated tests written in C++ to verify the proper functionality of Synthara's custom hardware.

Publications

Accelerating Triangle Counting with Real Processing-in-Memory Systems

Lorenzo Asquini, Manos Frouzakis, Juan Gómez-Luna, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Onur Mutlu, Francesco Silvestri

IPDPSW '25|arXiv '25

Education

Master in Computer Science

ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

September 2023 - 2026

Relevant Courses:

Advanced Systems Lab, Compiler Design, Computer Architecture, Design of Parallel and High-Performance Computing

Bachelor in Computer Engineering

Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy

September 2020 - July 2023

Final Score: 110/110 cum Laude. GPA: 29.75/30

Thesis: Approximate triangle counting with vertex coloring on the UPMEM architecture

Thesis Supervisor: Francesco Silvestri

Relevant Courses:

Algorithms for Engineering, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems

Prizes

Premio Atena

2022 | Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy

Privately funded prize awarded to 14 winners, selected from a pool of up to 6,000 eligible applicants.

Mille e Una Lode

2022 | Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy

Prize awarded to the top 3% of Computer Engineering bachelor’s students, out of approximately 900 students.

Selected Projects

Analyzing the Impact of RowClone Operations on RowHammer Attack Amplification

In collaboration with the SAFARI Research Group, I investigated how the Processing-Using-Memory operation RowClone can amplify the RowHammer attack.

Optimizing a Ternary Neural Network for single-core performance on x86-64 CPUs

As part of a group project for the Advanced Systems Lab course at ETH Zürich, we optimized the performance of a Ternary Neural Network from the TAB inference method on a single-core x86-64 CPU. Our optimizations involved leveraging AVX2 vector instructions, improving data access patterns, and maximizing data reuse.

Android Application Development

Skiver - An arcade game developed in Java.
Moon Clicker - A space-themed incremental game created using Unity.
PhotoPro - A custom camera app developed in Kotlin as a university group project. [Source Code]

Last updated on: 2025-08-31