Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Born on January 18, 1978 in Schlanders in the province of Bozen/Südtirol, Italy.

Current and past positions

Post-doc researcher at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, University of Trento, Italy (June 2008 - today)
Post-doc researcher at Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (June 2007 - May 2008)
Visiting researcher at HP Labs (Hewlett-Packard Company) in Palo Alto, California, USA (April 2006 - August 2006)
Doctoral student in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano, Italy (March 2004 - February 2007)

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano, Italy (March 2007)
MSC in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Degree with honors (December 2003)

Research interests

Mashups and lightweight composition on the Web
Adaptive and context-aware web applications
Business and business process intelligence
Business process/workflow management

Please find here more details about these areas of research and the list of publications.

Involvement in the scientific community

Editor of the following publications:
- Book entitled Business Intelligence Applications and the Web: Models, Systems and Technologies, to be published in 2011 by IGI Global.
- Special issue on Adaptation and Evolution in Web Systems Engineering for the Journal of Web Engineering, published in 2008.
Chair of the track "Service-Oriented E-Commerce and Business Processes" for EC-Web'10 (co-located with DEXA'10).
Workshop co-chair of the
- 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011)
- 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'10)
Co-organizer of the following international workshops:
- 1st and 2nd International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the Web (ComposableWeb'10, ComposableWeb'09)
- 1st International Workshop on Business IntelligencE and the WEB (BEWEB'10)
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd International Workshop on Adaptation and Evolution in Web Systems Engineering (AEWSE'08, AEWSE'07, AEWSE'06).
Demo co-chair of the
- 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT (Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies)
- 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'10).
PhD Symposium co-chair of the 7th International Joint Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'09).
Poster chair of the 9th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'09).
Publicity co-chair of the 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'08).
Reviewer for the following international, peer-reviewed journals:
Program Committee member of the following conferences:
- 5th IEEE/FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2011)
- 9th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'10)
- 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'10)
- 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'10, Research, Industrial, and Demo/Poster tracks)
- 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'10) - Industrial Track
- 2nd International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing (Service Computation 2010)
- 6th, 7th, 8th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'10, ICWS'09, ICWS'08)
- 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'09)
- 12th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS'09)
- and co-located events like ICWE'10 Demo & Poster Track, WWW'08 Poster Track, ICSOC'08 PhD Symposium, ICWE'08 Poster Track
Program Committee member of the following workshops:
- 3rd and 4th International Workshop on Web APIs and Services Mashups(Mashups'10, Mashups'09)
- 6th and 5th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA'10, WESOA'09)
- 1st Workshop on The Web and Requirements Engineering (WeRE'10)
- 5th European Young Researchers Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing (YR-SOC'10)
- 1st and 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management (SWIM'10, SWIM'09)
- 1st International Workshop on Quality in Web Engineering (QWE'10)
- International workshop on Linking of User Profiles and Applications in the Social Semantic Web (LUPAS'10)
- 2nd and 3rd Workshop on Mashups, Enterprise Mashups and Lightweight Composition on the Web (MEM'10, MEM'09)
- 1st International Workshop on Technologies and Systems for Information Management (TASIM'10)
- 2nd International Workshop on Future Trends of Model-Driven Development (FTMDD’10)
- International Workshop on User Data Interoperability in the Social Web (UDISW'10)
- 3rd and 4th International Workshop on Web Usability and Accessibility (IWWUA'09, IWWUA'08)
- International Workshop on Exploiting Structured Information on the Web (ESIW'09)
- International Workshop on Business Intelligence (BusIn'2009)
- International Workshop on Multi-channel Adaptive Context-sensitive Systems (MAC'06)

Presentations and invited talks

Keynote speaker at the CAISE 2010 Doctoral Consortium
Invited talk at HP Labs, Palo Alto, California: "From Scripting Mashups to Supporting Domain Expert Programming - Universal Integration on the Web", October 2009.
Keynote speaker at the First International Workshop on Future Trends of Model-Driven Development (FTMDD'09): "Context-aware applications for the Web: from models for programmers to models for end users", May 2009.
Tutorial speaker (with Fabio Casati and Boualem Benatallah) at the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'09): "Mashups, SaaS, and Cloud Computing: Evolutions and Revolutions in the Integration Landscape", April 2009.
Panelist at WISE'08: "Engineering Issues for the Web 2.0", September 2008.
Invited talk: "Web Mashups: the Web as Integration Platform for End Users", University of Innsbruck, Austria, January 17, 2009.
Invited talk: "Modelling Context and Adaptation in WebML", ETH Zurich, Switzerland, May 15, 2008.
Master course on Web engineering held together with Irene Garrigos, University of Alicante, Spain, January 16-18, 2008.
Invited talk: "Toward the User-Driven Development of Web Applications" in the context of the Symposium on Innovative Software Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia, December 12, 2007.
Invited talk: "Modelling Context and Adaptation in WebML", ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in the context of the Web Engineering course by Moira Norrie, May 31, 2007.

Awards and prizes

"Best Demonstration" award for the demo "Mixup: a Development and Runtime Environment for Integration at the Presentation Layer" presented at ICWE’07, Como, Italy (July 2007)
"Highly Commended Paper" award for the paper "An Approach to User-Behavior-Aware Web Applications" presented at ICWE’05, Sydney, Australia (July 2005)

Teaching activities

I've been teaching assistant for the following courses:

"Workgroup and Workflow Management Systems", held by prof. Giuseppe Pozzi at the Politecnico di Milano in Como
"Sistemi informativi", held by prof. Enrico Mussi at the Politecnico di Milano in Piacenza
"Laboratorio di analisi dei processi e delle informazioni aziendali", held by prof. Roberto Forcella and prof. Gianmario Motta at the Politecnico di Milano

Scholarships and grants

Three-year scholarship for Ph.D. studies of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (March 2004 - February 2007)
Scholarship for international internship Leonardo da Vinci II "QUEST for Europe" (2003)
Scholarship by the Unitech International Programme for one year of engineering studies at RWTH-Aachen, Aachen, Germany (2001/2002)
Annual scholarships of the Istituto per il Diritto allo Studio Universitario del Politecnico di Milano (1997-2003)