I'm Simone, a research engineer with over a decade of experience in network measurement and internet freedom research. I started at @nexacenter where I began developing the Network neutrality bot during my PhD in computer science at POLITO (2011-2014).

After my PhD, I continued this work in postdoc research, creating Measurement Kit and contributing to @ooni. This collaboration deepened during my OTF Information Controls Fellowship in 2018, hosted by @m-lab, where I focused on advancing Measurement Kit as OONI's measurement engine and began contributing to @m-lab's next-generation Network Diagnostic Tool (ndt7). In 2019, I officially joined the @ooni team, where I led the R&D related to the measurement engine.

In 2025, I worked at @fbk-most on civic digital twins modeling, where I helped to improve the digital-twin's model compiler.

I currently contribute to @m-lab and @leapcode and maintain a few, hobby open-source projects.

You can read my CV on LinkedIn and see my publications on Scholar.

• ooni/probe-cli: I maintained and led the development of this project (and the OONI measurement engine written in Go) between 2019 and 2024.

• bassosimone/websteps-illustrated: I wrote this new experimental experiment for exploring improving websites blocking measurement techniques in 2022-2024 and incorporated core ideas into OONI Web Connectivity v0.5 experiment.

• measurement-kit/measurement-kit: I wrote and maintained this library between 2013 and 2020 to provide an OONI, Neubot, and NDTv5 measurement engine. Measurement Kit was used by OONI (in 2017-2020) as well as other integrators to perform network performance and internet censorship measurements.

• m-lab/ndt-server: I contributed to this repository in 2018-2020 to implement the next-generation Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) iteration, also known as ndt7.

• neubot/neubot: I wrote this project as a doctoral student and maintained it between 2010 and 2020 (with most of the development and the related research papers happening in 2010-2014 during my doctorate).

• neubot/dash: I still maintain this project, which implements a client and server for the Neubot DASH streaming experiment.

• rbmk-project/rbmk: command-line network-measurement tool for measuring internet censorship and performance.

• bassosimone/vsos: very-simple operating system.

• bassosimone/minimk: minimal network measurement kit in C++.