Città Metropolitana di Genova

With a master degree (cum laude) in Computer Science at the University of Catania in 1998 and a thesis on Computational Geometry developed at the CS Department at Stanford University (USA), in 2004 I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Genova on topic related to multi-sensors data fusion.  Over the last 15 years, I have been collaborating with different international research institutions and universities in different successful research national EU and international projects dealing with Semantic Web, Open Data, and the visualization, modeling and structuring of complex digital data.

I am actually the coordinator (team leader) of the Europe (and Strategic Metropolitan Projects) Office for the Metropolitan City of Genova. Nominated Member of the Strategic Plan working group as expert in digital transition.  (2021-23) Member representing the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Steering Committee of the Genova Smart City Association. Main responsibilities and competences:

– Solution architect and project manager for the design of innovative projects
– Project management for national/EU projects
– Expertise in open data for e-government, semantic web technologies

Since 2005, I am an adjunct researcher at the Institute for Data Exploration & Applications at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) within the group led by Prof. James Hendler.

Interests: Semantic Web, Knowledge Modeling, Linked Data, Similarity, Human-Computer Interaction, E-learning, Digital Content Semantic Structuring and Annotation, Visual Computing.