diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ Francesco Fusco         ffusco@redhat.com
 FUJITA Tomonori         fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp
 Gaetano Catalli         gaetano.catalli@gmail.com
 Geoffrey Wossum         gwossum@acm.org
+Gianluca Merlo          gianluca.merlo@gmail.com
 Giuseppe Lettieri       g.lettieri@iet.unipi.it
 Glen Gibb               grg@stanford.edu
 Guolin Yang             gyang@nicira.com