Luigi Portinale

Full Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science Insitute DiSIT
University of Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro"
Viale T. Michel 11- 15121 - Alessandria - Italy
Room 184

Telephone: +39 0131 360 184
Fax: +39 0131 360 198
Email: luigi.portinale@uniupo.it
Linkedin it.linkedin.com/in/portinale

 

"As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality". A. Einstein

"Altough this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man". B Russel

"Life is uncertain; eat dessert first". E. Ulmer

New Book: Modeling and Analysis of Dependable Systems: a Probabilistic Graphical Model Perspective; by Luigi Portinale and Daniele Codetta Raiteri; World Scientific Publ. (June 2015)

Biography

Born in Alba (Italy) in 1964.
Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from the University of Torino in 1988.
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Torino and Milano Consortium in 1994.
Assitant Professor: 1993-1998, Computer Science Department, University of Torino.
Assistant Professor: 1998-2000, Associate Professor of Computer Science: 2000-2002, Department of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, U.P.O.
Associate Professor of Computer Science: 2002-2004, Department of Computer Science (Dipartimento di Informatica), U.P.O.
Full professor of Computer Science: 2004-now, Department of Computer Science, U.P.O.

Deputy Chair of the Computer Science Department (2005-2007)
Chair of the Computer Science Department from 2007 to 2011.
Visiting Professor at UNISG (Bra), 2012-2013.
Head of the Computer Science Institute 2012-2018.

Awards

  • Sollac Prize (best paper award) at International Conference on Expert Systems and their Applications, Avignon, 1991 (with Luca Console e Daniele Theseider Dupre')
  • D.J. Groen Prize 2015 of the Safety and Reliability Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) for the paper  "Approaching Dynamic Reliability with Predictive and Diagnostic Purposes by exploiting Dynamic Bayesian Networks", published on Journal of Risk and Reliability, 228(5), 2014 (with Daniele Codetta Raiteri).

Signatory of Asilomar AI Principles.

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Research

Head of ProGraM: Probabilistic Graphical Models Research Group and Lab
Member of LIS: Laboratory for Intelligent Systems

The research area is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Main interests involve diagnostic reasoning, probabilistic inference and Bayesian networks, case-based reasoning and (formerly) the use of Petri nets in AI applications. More recent activities involve dependability/reliability analysis, intelligent data analysis and machine learning, medical informatics and recommender systems .
Program committe member of several international conferences and program co-chair of the First Italian Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (1998), the Workshop on Applications of Petri Nets to Intelligent System Development (1999) and the Fifth European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (2000) .
Invited speaker to MMR'04 and MMR'07 (session on Bayesian Networks and Reliability)
Editor for the volume Advances in Case-Based Reasoning (LNAI 1898).
Past reviewer for French National Research Agency (ANR).
Member of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), of the Association for the Advacement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and of the Italian Scientific Association of Bomedical Informatics (SIBIM).
Member of GRIN , the Italian National Group of Computer Science Researchers.
Member of research units of CINI (Italian Consortium on Informatcs), CNIT (Italian Consortium on telecommunications) and InfoQ (Group on Quantitative Informatics).
Member of the technical and scientific committe of EComLab (center for e-commerce studies, 2012-2015).
Member of SIBIM (Societa' Scientifica Italiana di Informatica Biomedica) (from 2017)

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Professional Services

Scientific Services

Academic Services

  • Member of the Management Board of CINI (since 2015).
  • Member of the Department Board of DiSIT, U.P.O. (since 2015).
  • Head of the Computer Science Istitute, U.P.O. (since 2012).
  • Chair of the Computer Science Department, U.P.O. (2007-2011).
  • Member of the PhD in Computer Science Board, University of Torino (cicles XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXII)
  • Deputy Chair of CS dept. (2005-2007).
  • U.P.O. representative for the academic information system (CRUI working group) (2005-2012).
  • U.P.O. representative in Wi-Pie Piedmont program (2007-2010).
  • U.P.O. representative in the Technical Scientific Committe (CST) of the CSI-Piemonte (2007-2011).
  • U.P.O. representative in the ICT Innovation Cluster (Polo Innovazione ICT) of Regione Piemonte (2009-now)
  • Member of the Academic Senate, U.P.O. (2012-2015).
  • Member of the Technical Scientific Committe of the ITS on Sustainable Mobility, Aerospace and Mechatronics (2013-now).
  • Member of the Steering Committe of the Piedmont Aerospace District (2014-now)

Teaching

Students hours

Exams

  • See DIR (on-line enrollment)

News

  • on-line exam enrollment mandatory

Thesis Proposals

  • Artificial Intelligence (Case-Based Reasonig, Bayesian Networks, Intelligent Web Applications)
  • Info: luigi.portinale@uniupo.it

Lectures (in Italian)