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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

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)