Università del Piemonte
Orientale A. Avogadro
DISIT - Computer Science
Institute
DISIT - Computer Science Institute
Viale Michel
11
15121 Alessandria, Italy
Informatics Engineering (110/110 cum laude), University of Pavia
PhD Bioengineering and Medical Informatics, University of Pavia
Full Professor in Computer Science (Professore di Prima Fascia SSD INF/01)
Case-Based Reasoning
Decision Support Systems
Dependability Analysis
Temporal Reasoning
Medical Informatics
Invited speaker at:
Annual Italian School of Bioengineering 2017
Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC), International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) 2014 (talk on “Knowledge-intensive Medical Process Similarity”)
Workshop on Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning, International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2012 (talk on “Case-based Optimization of Medical Processes”)
Local chair and program co-chair of the International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2010
Program co-chair of the EAI International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare, Angers, 2017
Program co-chair of the EAI International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare, Vasteras, 2016
Chair of the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2016 and 2017
Guest editor of the following special issues/books:
book on "Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications, vol. 2", S. Montani, L. Jain eds., Springer, Berlin (2013)
special issue on Process Oriented Case Based Reasoning, hosted by Information Systems (2012)
special issue on Case Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, hosted by Expert Systems with Applications (2012)
book on "Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications, vol. 1", S. Montani, L. Jain eds., Springer, Berlin (2010)
special issue on Dependable System Modelling and Analysis, hosted by Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2009)
special issue on Case Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, hosted by Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (2009)
special issue on Case Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, hosted by Computational Intelligence (2007)
special issue on Case Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, hosted by Applied Intelligence (2006)
special session on Bayesian Networks in Dependability, hosted by Reliability Engineering and System Safety (2006)
External opponent of the PhD thesis entitled "Case-based Personalized Stress Diagnosis System Using Physiological Sensor Signal", by Shahina Begum, Malardalen University, Sweden
Member of the final examination committee of the PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics of the University of Pavia in 2015
Member of the expert committee for the selection of an Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2016
Mentor at the Doctoral Consortium, co-located with the International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2011, 2013 and 2015
Scientific responsible and local coordinator of the Piemonte Orientale unit of the CINI lab on Smart Cities & Communities (up to september 2020)
Member of the Board of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) Society (2017-2022)
Member of the Piemonte Orientale unit of the CINI labs on Big Data and on Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Systems
Co-chair of the following workshops and special sessions:
Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, co-located with International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2019;
Joint Workshop on AI in Health (AIH), co-located with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2018;
Workshop on Synergies between CBR and Machine Learning, co-located with International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2018;
Workshop on Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning, co-located with International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2017;
Workshop on Synergies between Case-Based Reasoning and Knowledge Discovery, co-located with International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2016;
Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, co-located with International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2015;
Workshop on Reasoning about Time in CBR, co-located with International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2014;
Workshop on Synergies between CBR and Data Mining, co-located with International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2014;
Workshop “AI meets business processes”, co-located with the conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) 2013;
Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, co-located with International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2013;
Workshop on Experience reuse: Provenance, Process-Orientation and Traces, co-located with International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2013;
Workshop on Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning, co-located with the International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2012;
Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, co-located with the International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2012;
Invited session on Artificial Intelligence techniques for Business Process Management, co-located with the International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES) 2012
Workshop on Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning, co-located with the International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2011
Seventh workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, co-located with the International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2009
Special session on Bayesian Networks in Dependability, IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems (DCDS) 2009
Sixth workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, co-located with the European Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ECCBR) 2008
Fifth workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, co-located with the International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2007
Fourth workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, co-located with the European Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ECCBR) 2006
Workshop on Bayesian Networks in Dependability, co-located with the First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) 2006
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems (IOS Press)
Member of the Editorial Board of the journals:
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
International Journal of Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES International)
International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms
Transactions on Machine Learning and Data Mining
International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems (till 2018)
Member of the Review Board of the journal Applied Intelligence (2006-2018)
Projects:
Funded by Italian MIUR:
MIUR FIRB-Perf - 2003-2006 - Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems: Techniques, Methodologies and Tools
MIUR PRIN - 2004-2006 - Intelligent Analysis of Hemodialysis Monitoring Data to Improve Care Processes
FFABR – 2017 – Recipient of a fund for base research activities, reserved to 25% of associate professors in Italy
Funded by EU
EU - TIDDM - 1996-1999 - Telematic Management of Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, IV framework- Telematics Application Programme
EU - TANDEM - 1997-2000 - Training Alternative Networking skills for Diabetes Management, Leonardo da Vinci Programme
EU - M2DM - 2000-2002 - Multi-Access Services for the management of Diabetes Mellitus, V framework - Information Society Technologies
Funded by Regione Piemonte:
Regione Piemonte - Converging technologies - 2009-2011 - Developing White and Green Biotechnologies by Converging Platforms from Biology and Information Technology towards Metagenomics
Regione Piemonte - Bando Regionale in Materia di Scienze Umane e Sociali - 2009-2011 - Report on the Piedmont Health System
Regione Piemonte - Polo Innovazione ICT - 2010-2012 - MASP: Ricerca e Sviluppo Sperimentale di un Sistema per il Controllo a Distanza di Aree Sensibili e Protette, Finalizzato all’Erogazione di Servizi Innovativi Orientati al Monitoraggio Cognitivo ed Attuativo di Politiche Ambientali
Regione Piemonte, POR FESR - 2019-2021 – Piattaforma Tecnologica Bioeconomia - BIOENPRO4TO – SMART SOLUTIONS FOR SMART COMMUNITIES
Funded by European Space Agency (ESA):
ESA - 2010-2012 - Verification of Failure Impact by Model Checking
Funded by Compagnia di S. Paolo:
Clinical Guidelines Software Tools and Methodologies: Towards a Second Generation (GINSENG) - 2012-2014
Funded by University of Piemonte Orientale:
Towards a Knowledge-Intensive and Technology-enhanced patient Emergency Management (KITE) – 2016-2018 - Principal Investigator
Member of the board of the PhD in Computer Science of the University of Turin