Diego Calvanese (January 2021)
1. PERSONAL DATA
Born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1966. Nationality: Italian.
Languages: Italian (mother tongue), German (mother tongue), English (C2-IELTS).
http://www.inf.unibz.it/∼calvanese/
ORCID: 0000-0001-5174-9693
DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/c/DiegoCalvanese
2. EDUCATION
11/1996 Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Sapienza U. of Rome, Italy.
12/1990 Graduation cum laude in Electronics Engineering, Sapienza U. of Rome, Italy.
3. EMPLOYMENT
11/2019-today Wallenberg Guest Prof. at the Dep. of Computing Science, Umeå U., Sweden.
01/2015-today Tenured full prof. in Computer Engineering (ING-INF/05), Fac. of Computer Science, Free U. of Bozen-Bolzano (UNIBZ), Italy.
02/2015-09/2019 Vicedean for Research, Fac. of CS, UNIBZ, Italy.
01/2014-10/2018 Director of the PhD Program in CS, UNIBZ, Italy.
01/2014 Italian National Habilitation as full prof. in Computer Science (01/B1).
12/2013 Italian National Habilitation as full prof. in Computer Engineering (09/H1).
10/2010-12/2013 Faculty representative in the Research Committee of UNIBZ, Italy.
03/2004-10/2007 Director of the MSc Program in CS, UNIBZ, Italy.
11/2003-12/2014 Tenured associate prof. in Computer Eng. (ING-INF/05), Fac. of CS, UNIBZ, Italy.
09/2000-10/2003 Tenured assistant prof. in Computer Eng. (ING-INF/05), Fac. of Engineering, Sapienza U. of Rome, Italy.
02/1991-07/1992 Responsible for software development, “Ionen-Technik”, Innsbruck, Austria.
4. RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
06/2014 Visiting Researcher (1 month) at U. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
08/2013 Visiting Researcher (1 month) at U. of Melbourne, Australia.
09/2012-06/2013 Visiting Prof. under a Wolfgang Pauli Fellowship, TU Vienna, Austria.
09/2009 Visiting Researcher (1 month) at Meraka Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
08/2008 Visiting Researcher (1 month) at IBM Watson Research Center, USA.
03/1998-08/2000 Postdoc Scholarship by CNR, Sapienza U. of Rome, Italy.
11/1996-02/1998 Postdoc Fellow, Sapienza U. of Rome, Italy.
10/1994-07/1995 Visiting Scholar at TU Aachen (RWTH), Germany.
09/1992-08/1995 PhD Scholarship, Sapienza U. of Rome, Italy.
5. HONORS
2021 Classic Paper Award at AAAI for most influential AAAI paper of past 15 years.
2019 Nominated Fellow of the ACM.
2018 Best paper award at AI*IA.
2017 Best paper award at RuleML+RR.
2016 Semantic Web J. outstanding paper award.
2016 Best paper award at BPM.
2015 Nominated EurAI Fellow.
2013 Best paper award at RR.
2013 Award for the most influential 10 year paper of ICSOC.
2013 Recipient of the first edition of the South-Tyrolean Scientific Prize.
2008 IBM Research award for research achievements on artifact-centric systems.
6. IMPACT MEASURES
Author of more than 350 refereed publications in top international venues, including:
- journals: AIJ, JAIR, ACM TOCL, IC, JCSS, IS, SWJ;
- conferences: IJCAI, AAAI, KR, PODS, ICDT, VLDB, EDBT, ICDE, EDBT, LICS, ISWC, BPM, CAiSE, ICSOC.
One of the editors of the Description Logic Handboook.
Bibliometrics 24/01/2021: h-index, citations, i10-index
- Google Scholar: 72, 33245, 244
- Google Scholar since 2016: 33, 8077, 131
- Scopus: 45, 8665, -
7. RESEARCH GRANTS
Total acquired funds: more than Euro 3.800.000, including the following:
03/2021-02/2022 Coordinator, Heterogeneous Data Integration into Virtual Knowledge Graphs (HIVE), Sparkasse Foundation; Euro 52.400.
10/2020-12/2022 PI, Medieval Explorations in Neuro-Science (MENS), Province of Bolzano, Euro 120.000.
11/2019-10/2022 PI, Intelligent Open Data Exploration (INODE), H2020 INFRAEOSC-02-2019, Euro 765.500.
09/2019-08/2022 PI, High quality Open data Publishing and Enrichment (HOPE), PRIN Italy, Euro 155.332.
04/2019-03/2022 PI, Data Integration for Energy Efficiency (IDEE), EFRE-FESR 2014-2020, Euro 245.250.
03/2019-02/2021 PI, Process-aware Analytics Support based on Conceptual Models for Event Logs (PACMEL), EU CHIST-ERA, Euro 126.160.
06/2016-05/2019 Coordinator, Knowledge-Aware Operational Support (KAOS), Euregio IPN, Euro 110.250.
11/2012-10/2016 PI, Scalable End-user Access to Big Data (Optique), EU FP7 IP, Euro 873.000.
06/2010-05/2013 PI, Artifact-centric Service Interoperation (ACSI), EU FP7 STREP, Euro 452.800.
02/2007-02/2009 PI, New Technologies and Tools for the Integration of Web Search Services (NGS), PRIN Italy, Euro 66.500.
09/2005-12/2008 Coordinator, Thinking Ontologies (TONES), EU FP6 STREP, Euro 352.000.
8. KEYNOTES
At international events (since 2012):
12/2020 "Mapping Patterns for Virtual Knowledge Graphs", AIKE.
10/2018 "Ontology-based Data Access and Integration: Relational Data and Beyond", CLEI-LACLO (Brasil).
06/2016 "Reasoning over Evolving Graph-structured Data Under Constraints", AMW.
04/2016 "Managing Change in Graph-structured Data Using Description Logics", DL.
07/2015 "Ontologies for Data Integration", FOfAI (IJCAI WS).
09/2014 "Query Answering over Description Logic Ontologies", JELIA.
09/2014 "Scalable End-User Access to Big Data", AIMSA.
06/2013 "Foundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective", PODS.
10/2012 "Ontology-Based Data Access: from Theory to Practice", BDA (France).
9. TUTORIALS
Tutorials at international events:
02/2020 "Composite Event Recognition in Logic and Artificial Intelligence", Dagstuhl 20071.
11/2019 "Virtual Knowledge Graphs", with Guohui Xiao, JIST.
11/2018 "Novel Developments in Ontology-Based Data Access and Integration", with Bejamin Cogrel and Guohui Xiao, AI*IA.
10/2018 "Semantic Technologies for Data Access and Integration", with Guohui Xiao, CIKM.
10/2018 "Query Reformulation and Optimization in Ontology-based Data Access", Ontobras (Brasil).
09/2018 "Ontology-based Data Access: Relational Data and Beyond", CILC (Italy).
09/2017 "Integrated Modeling and Verification of Processes and Data", with Marco Montali, BPM.
11/2016 "Mapping Management and Expressive Ontologies in Ontology-Based Data Access", with Benjamin Cogrel and Guohui Xiao, EKAW.
06/2016 "Ontology-based Data Access", AMW.
10/2015 "Ontology-based Data Access: From Theory to Practice", ISWC.
12/2012 "Description Logics for Conceptual Modeling" and "Description Logics for Accessing Data", Basic Training Camp of the Eur. PhD Program in Computational Logic.
09/2009 "Ontologies and Databases", Reasoning Web Summer School.
05/2009 "Ontology-based Data Integration", Semantic Days (Norway).
10/2008 "Reasoning for Ontology Engineering and Usage", ISWC.
11/2007 "Ontology-Based Data Access", with D. Lembo, ISWC.
10. ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
He has served on the program committee of more than 150 international conferences and workshops, and has contributed to the organization of many scientific event, among which:
09/2020 Program co-Chair of KR.
09/2019 General Chair of the BRAIN joint event.
09/2019 Program co-Chair of GCAI.
08/2016 Chair of the organizing committee of ESSLLI.
06/2015 Program co-Chair of DL.
06/2015 Program Chair of PODS.
01/2015 Program co-Chair and co-organizer of IRCDL.
05/2013 Co-organizer of a Dagstuhl seminar on reasoning in conceptual schemas.
09/2010 Organizer of RR.
11/2008 Program co-Chair of RR.
09/2007 Co-organizer of the 8th EDBT Summer School (EDBTSS).
06/2007 Co-chair of DL.
06/2005 Co-chair of SEBD.
09/2003 Co-chair of DL.
01/2003 Organization-chair of ICDT.
04/2002 Co-chair of KRDB.
11. MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
01/2019-today President of the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Association (RRA).
11/2018-today Member of the KR Steering Committee.
06/2015-10/2018 Member of the DL Steering Committee.
10/2014-today Member of the Advisory Team of the CEUR WS Proceedings Series.
06/2014-05/2017 Member of the Executive Committee of ACM PODS.
02/2013-today Member of the Management Board of CINI, Italy.
10/2008-12/2018 Member of the RR Steering Committee.
02/2008-12/2012 Member of the W3C OWL working group.
04/2002-06/2007 Member of the DL Steering Committee.
12. EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
11/2017-today AIJ, associate editor.
09/2017-01/2021 JAR, editorial board member.
07/2016-06/2019 JAIR, associate editor.
2014 Co-editor of the special issue of the J. Web Semantics on Ontology-Based Data Access.
2013 Co-editor of the special issue of the Semantic Web J. on RR 2010.
01/2015-today PeerJ Computer Science, editorial board member.
10/2013-09/2016 J. on Big Data Research, editorial board member.
03/2011-today Studies on the Semantic Web series, IOS Press, editorial board member.
05/2010-06/2016 JAIR, editorial board member.
01/2005-07/2011 LNLLI series, editorial board member.
13. PhD STUDENTS
2006–2010 Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, Research Scientist at Google, New York, USA.
2006–2010 Camilo Thorne, Research Scientist at Elsevier, Frankfurt, Germany.
2005-2010 Magdalena Ortiz (co-supervisor), tenured Assistant Professor, TU Vienna, Austria.
2009–2013 Babak Bagheri-Hariri, Manager, Teheran, Iran.
2010–2013 Dmitriy Zheleznyakov, Software Engineer, London, UK.
2010–2014 Elena Botoeva, Postdoc Researcher, Imperial College, London, UK.
2012-2016 Ario Santoso.
2014-2018 Davide Lanti, Assistant Professor, UNIBZ, Italy.
2016-2019 Elem Guzel Kalayci, Research Scientist, Virtual Vehicle, Graz, Austria.
2020-today Francesco di Cosmo.
2021-today Muhammad Adnan.
2021-today Elena Romanenko.
14. ENTERPRENEURSHIP
04/2019 Ideator and co-founder of Ontopic S.R.L. (https://ontopic.biz/), the first spin-off of UNIBZ.
01/2017-today Director of the Smart Data Factory (https://smart.inf.unibz.it/en) laboratory for technology transfer of the Fac. of CS of UNIBZ.