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

Here more details about these areas of research and the list of publications.

Involvement in the scientific community

• Program co-chair of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2013).
• Program track chair of the tracks
  • 'Mobile commerce and business services' for the 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS-2011).
  • 'Service-Oriented E-Commerce and Business Processes' for EC-Web'10 (co-located with DEXA'10).
• Workshop co-chair of the international conference on
  • Business Process Management (BPM 2011)
  • Web Engineering (ICWE 2010)
• Co-chair of the international workshop series
  • International Workshop on Business IntelligencE and the WEB (BEWEB'12, BEWEB'11, BEWEB'10)
  • International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the Web (ComposableWeb'11, ComposableWeb'10, ComposableWeb'09)
  • International Workshop on Adaptation and Evolution in Web Systems Engineering (AEWSE'08, AEWSE'07, AEWSE'06).
• Tutorial co-chair of the 10th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2012).
• Demo co-chair of the international conferences on
  • Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'10).
  • Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies (WI-IAT 2011)
• 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 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2012, ICSOC 2008).
• Reviewer for the international journals
  • Transactions on Internet Technology, ACM
  • Transactions on the Web, ACM
  • Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE
  • Computer, IEEE
  • Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Software, IEEE
  • IT Professional, IEEE
  • World Wide Web Journal, Springer
  • Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Springer
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer
  • Information Systems, Elsevier
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier
  • Computers in Industry, Elsevier
  • Software: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons
  • Journal of Web Engineering, Rinton Press
  • The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press
  • International Journal of Web Services Research, IGI Group Publishing
  • International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems, IGI Group Publishing
  • International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, World Scientific Publishing
  • International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, Inder Science Publishers
• Program Committee member of the following international conferences on
  • World Wide Web (WWW 2012, WWW 2010)
  • Web Engineering (ICWE'12, ICWE'11, ICWE'10)
  • Web Services (ICWS'12, ICWS'11, ICWS'10, ICWS'09, ICWS'08)
  • Model and Data Engineering (MEDI'12)
  • Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2012)
  • Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2012)
  • Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'12)
  • Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'11, ICSOC'10)
  • Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA'11)
  • Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM'12)
  • Social Computing and Applications (SCA 2011)
  • Internet Applications and Research (IAR 2012, IAR 2011)
  • Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2011)
  • Advanced Service Computing (ServiceComputation 2011, ServiceComputation 2010)
  • Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2012, MUE 2011)
  • Data Engineering (ICDE'10) - Industrial Track
  • Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'09)
  • Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS'09)
  • and co-located events like ICSOC'11 Demos and PhD Symposium, ICWE'10 Demo & Poster Track, WWW'08 Poster Track, ICSOC'08 PhD Symposium, ICWE'08 Poster Track
• Program Committee member of the international workshops on
  • Linked APIs for the Semantic Web (LAPIS'12)
  • Knowledge-intensive Business Processes (KiBP'12)
  • Semantic Web Information Management (SWIM'12, SWIM'11, SWIM'10, SWIM'09)
  • Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA'11, WESOA'10, WESOA'09)
  • Workshop on Adaptive Services for the Future Internet (WAS4FI 2011)
  • Very Large Data Search: Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources (VLDS 2011)
  • User-Focused Service Engineering, Consumption and Aggregation (USECA 2011)
  • Web Services and Formal Methods (WS-FM'11)
  • Web APIs and Services Mashups (Mashups'11, Mashups'10, Mashups'09)
  • Requirements Engineering for Social Computing (RESC 2011)
  • Quality in Web Engineering (QWE 2011, QWE 2010)
  • Search, Exploration and Navigation of Web Data Sources (exploreWeb 2011)
  • The Web and Requirements Engineering (WeRE 2011, WeRE'2010)
  • End User Development for Services - Methodologies, Tools, and Evaluations (EUD4Services 2011)
  • Model-Based Interactive Ubiquitous Systems (MODIQUITOUS 2011)
  • User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web (UWeb 2011)
  • Semantic based Opportunistic Data Management (SODM'11)
  • Future Trends of Model-Driven Development (FTMDD'11, FTMDD’10)
  • European Young Researchers Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing (YR-SOC'10)
  • Quality in Web Engineering (QWE'10)
  • Linking of User Profiles and Applications in the Social Semantic Web (LUPAS'10)
  • Mashups, Enterprise Mashups and Lightweight Composition on the Web (MEM'10, MEM'09)
  • Technologies and Systems for Information Management (TASIM'10)
  • User Data Interoperability in the Social Web (UDISW'10)
  • Web Usability and Accessibility (IWWUA'09, IWWUA'08)
  • Exploiting Structured Information on the Web (ESIW'09)
  • Business Intelligence (BusIn'2009)
  • Multi-channel Adaptive Context-sensitive Systems (MAC'06)

Presentations and invited talks

• Invited speaker at the ICWE 2011 PhD Symposium
• 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)