Degrees:

• Informatics Engineering (110/110 cum laude), University of Pavia (1996)
• PhD Bioengineering and Medical Informatics, University of Pavia (2001) (PhD thesis information)

Current position:

Main research interests:

• Case-Based Reasoning
• Decision Support Systems
• Dependability Analysis
  
• Temporal Reasoning
• Medical Informatics
  

Publications:

• List of publications

Scientific activitity:

• Local chair and scientific co-chair of the International Conference on Case Based Reasoning  (ICCBR) 2010
• Guest editor of the following special issues/books:
• 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", 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 Bayesain 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
  
• Mentor at the Doctoral Consortium, co-located with the International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2011
• Co-chair of the following workshops and special sessions:
• 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 
• Member of the Editorial Board of the journals:
• Intelligent Decision Technogy: an International Journal
• International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms
• Transactions on Machine Learning and Data Mining
• International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems
  
• Member of the Review Board of the journal Applied Intelligence
• Member of the following technical program committees:
• International Conference on Smart Medical and Healthcare Systems, Piraeus, July 2013;
• IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Athens, November 2012;
• International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR), Barcelona, October 2012;
• Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare + Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care, colocated with International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM), Tallin, September 2012;
• International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR), Lyon, September 2012;
• International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES), San Sebastian, September 2012;
• International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE), Pisa, August 2012;
• Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Berlin, July 2012;
• Workshop on data mining in the life sciences, co-located with ICDM 2012, Berlin, July 2012;
• KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT) Gifu, May 2012;
• IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Boca Raton, November 2011;
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) - best paper track, Barcelona, July 2011;
• International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR), Paris, October 2011;
• International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2011, London, September 2011;
• International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES), Kaiserslautern, September 2011;
• IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI), Corfu, September 2011;
• Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), New York, August 2011;
• Workshop on data mining in the life sciences, co-located with ICDM 2011,  New York, August 2011;
• International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE), Oslo, August 2011;
• KES International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT), Piraeus, July 2011;
• KES International Symposium on Intelligent and Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS), Piraeus, July 2011;
• International Conference on Intelligent Healthcare, Bhubaneswar, July 2011;
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), Bled, July 2011;
• International workshop on Knowledge Representation forHealth-Care (KR4HC), colocated with AIME 2011, Bled, July 2011;
• IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Arras, October 2010;
• International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR), Valencia, October 2010;
• IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI), Cyprus, September 2010;
• International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES), Cardiff, September 2010;
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Lisbon, August 2010;
• Workshop on knowledge representation for health care, co-located with ECAI 2010, Lisbon, August 2010;
• International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR) 2010, Alessandria, July 2010;
• KES International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT), Baltimore, July 2010;
• KES International Symposium on Intelligent and Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS), Baltimore, July 2010;
• Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Berlin, July 2010;
• Workshop on data mining in the life sciences, co-located with ICDM 2010,  Berlin, July 2010;
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Haifa, June 2010;
• IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Newark, November 2009
• International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES), Santiago, September 2009
• Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2009, Leipzig, July 2009
• Workshop on data mining in the life sciences, co-located with ICDM 2009, Leipzig, July 2009
• Workshop on knowledge representation for health care, co-located with AIME 2009, Verona, July 2009
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), Verona, July 2009
• IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI), Thessaloniki,  April 2009
• IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Dayton, November 2008
• European Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ECCBR) 2008, Trier, September 2008: area chair for the CBR in Healthcare track
• Workshop on data mining in the life sciences, co-located with ICDM 2008, Leipzig, July 2008
• Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2008, Leipzig, July 2008
• IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Patras, October 2007
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), Amsterdam, July 2007
• Workshop on data mining in the life sciences, co-located with ICDM 2007, Leipzig, July 2007
• Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2007, Leipzig, July 2007
• International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), Vienna, April 2007
• International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES), Bournemouth, October 2006
• European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR) 2006, Oludeniz/Fethyie, September 2006
• Workshop on data mining in the life sciences, co-located with ICDM 2006, Leipzig, July 2006
• Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2006, Leipzig, July 2006
• Third workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, co-located with ICCBR 2005, Chicago, August 2005
• Second workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences, co-located with ECCBR 2004, Madrid, August 2004

• 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
  
• 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
  
• Funded by European Space Agency (ESA):
• ESA - 2010-2012 - Verification of Failure Impact by Model Checking
  
  

• Member of the board of the PhD in Computer Science of the University of Turin
  
• Argomenti di ricerca per tesi di laurea magistrale e proposte di stage