Individuals

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  • Stefano Ceri (PI) is a Professor of "Database Systems" at DEI. His research interests are focused on extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules, object orientation, XML query languages; recent work is focused on design methods for data-intensive WEB sites, stream reasoning, and search computing.
  • Adnan Abid is a PhD student. His major interests are performance optimization through parallelism and information retrieval using semantic information.
  • Mamoun Abu Helou is a PhD student. His major interest is keyword clustering for service matching.
  • Alessandro Bozzon is a post-doc at DEI. His current research interests are in user interaction paradigms, data visualization, and result diversification techniques in multi-domain search over heterogeneous data collections.
  • Davide F. Barbieri is a post-doc at DEI. His research interests are query planning, processing, optimization on database systems, data stream management systems and continuous querying.
  • Daniele Braga is an Assistant Professor at DEI. His research interests address several issues related to the manipulation of semi-structured data, service integration, stream reasoning, and data mapping.
  • Marco Brambilla is an Assistant Professor at DEI. His research interests are related to worflows, Web services, Semantic Web, semistructured data mapping, web architectures for embedded systems.
  • Alessandro Campi is an Assistant Professor at DEI. His research interests are related to extending XQuery with active rules, fuzzy queries, data mining and visual models to represent XQuery queries.
  • Sofia Ceppi is a PhD student at DEIB. Her research main interests focus on sponsored search auction, ad exchange, and on algorithms and economic mechanisms for computational advertising.
  • Davide Chicco is a Ph.D. student at DEI. His research interests are bioinformatics, computational intelligence, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, and biomolecular data integration.
  • Sara Comai is an Associate Professor at DEI. Her recent research interests include the specification, design and automatic generation of complex Web applications.
  • Emanuele Della Valle is a Assistant Professor at DEI. His major research interest is in semantic technologies.
  • Piero Fraternali is a Professor at DEI. His main research interests concern database integrity, active databases, software engineering, and methodologies and tools for WEB application development.
  • Nicola Gatti is an Assistant Professor with tenure at DEIB. His research interests focus on issues in the intersection of computer science (especially, artificial intelligence) and economics (especially, microeconomic theory), e.g., electronic auctions, computational advertising, algorithmic game theory.
  • Davide Martinenghi is an Assistant Professor at DEI. His research interests are data integrity maintenance, web data access, data integration, and search computing.
  • Marco Masseroli is an Assistant Professor at DEI. His research interests concern the application of information technologies to medical and biological sciences with special interest on genomic and proteomic databases and ontologies and their use for supporting biomedical research.
  • Maristella Matera is an Assistant Professor at DEI. Her research interests are Web engineering, with particular emphasis on design methods and tools for Web application development, context-awareness, Web-based cooperative processes, Web presentation, Web usage analysis, usability and accessibility.
  • Davide Mazza is a Ph.D. student at DEI. His research interests are Web engineering, with particular emphasis on client-side Web technologies and on Web interface design.
  • Chiara Pasini is a research assistant at DEI. Her research interests are in software architectures, software engineering and system design.
  • Silvia Quarteroni  is a post-doc at DEI. Her research interests include natural language processing, machine learning, (spoken) dialog systems and information retrieval.
  • Marco Tagliasacchi is an Assistant Professor at DEI. His research interests concern processing of multimedia data (e.g. audio, image and video signals), backed by the principles of information theory and machine learning.
  • Luca Tettamanti is an research assistant at DEI. His research interests are in software architectures, software engineering and system design.
  • Salvatore Vadacca is a Ph.D. student at DEI. His research interests concern distributed computing (grid and cloud computing) and its application to data management.
  • Serge Zagorac is a Ph.D. student at DEI.  His research interests concern multimedia search and indexing.