Updated feb 2021

Current position Full professor

• Sectors: 01/B1 - Informatica; INF/01 - Informatica
• Since Nov.1, 2002
• Università di Napoli Federico II - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettriva e delle Tecnologie dell'Informatione

Previous positions

• 1/11/1998-31/10/2002: Associate Professor at Università degli Studi di Milano - Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione
• 15/4/1994-31/10/1998: Assistant professor (Ricercatore) at Università degli Studi di Torino - Dipartimento di Informatica
• 1/11/1993-14/4/1994: Visiting professor at Technische Universitaet Wien - Department of information Systems

Main research interests

• Computer security and privacy.
• Knowledge representation and reasoning.

Recent projects

• Unit coordinator of the H2020 project TRAPEZE (grant n.883464)
• Unit coordinator of the H2020 project SPECIAL (grant n.731601)
• Unit coordinator of the Security Horizons project (PRIN 2010-11)
• Principal coordinator of the national project LoDeN on low-complexity nonmonotonic description logics (PRIN08) (http://loden.fisica.unina.it)
• Member of the management committee of the European FP7 COST Action Agreement Technologies (IC0801).
• Coordinator of the working group on Policies of the European FP6 Network of Excellence REWERSE (terminated Feb 29, 2008). The network comprised 27 academic and industrial european partners; its goal was the development of rule-based approaches to the Semantic Web. The vision and results (papers, software, demos, tutorials) of the working group on policies can be found on http://cs.na.infn.it/rewerse.
• Coordinator of the University of Naples’ unit in the national PRIN 2006 project Disjunctive Logic Programming: Extensions and optimizations (terminated Feb 9, 2009). In this basic research project he focussed his work on effective reasoning mechanisms for logic programs with negation and function symbols under the stable model semantics; such work received an award at ICLP’07.
• Coordinator of the University of Naples’ unit in the European FP5 project WASP, where he worked on foundational problems concerning Answer Set Programming.
• Coordinator of the University of Milano’s unit of the Eureka E! 2235 project named IKF (Information and Knowledge Fusion) on an adaptive framework for retrieval and semi-automatic interpretation of unstructured documents.

Appointments at foreign universities/institutes

• 1993-1994: Visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna (Austria).
• 1991-1992: Visiting scholar at UMIACS, the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (College Park, MD, USA).

Prizes, International recognition

• Test of Time award at the Int. Conf. ICLP 2015
• Best paper award at the Int. Conf. ICLP 2007
• Paper award at the Int. Conf. IEEE POLICY 2007
• Best theoretical paper award at the Answer Set Programming Workshop 2005
• The IJCAI 2003 paper entered the short list of candidates to the best paper award.
• Invited joint keynote presentation at Description logic workshop DL 2012 and Nonmonotonic Reasoning Workshop NMR 2012
• Invited presentation at IFIP Trust Management Symposium: Industry Meets Academia, Hasso-Plattner Institute, Potsdam 2012
• Invited presentation at Datalog 2.0 Workshop, Oxford, March 2010
• Invited presentation at ZISC Workshop on Advanced Concepts of Access and Usage Control 2008 at ETH Zurich,
• Invited panel participation at WWW 2008, Beijing, China
• Invited keynote presentation at TABLEAUX 2007, Aix-en-Provence
• Invited presentation at Semantic Web Days 2007, Graz,
• Invited tutorial at Reasoning Web School 2007, Dresden
• Invited presentation at W3C Workshop on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven Enforcement, Ispra, 2006
• Invited tutorial at RuleML Workshop 2006, Athens, GA, USA
• Invited tutorial at ICCL Summer School 2005, Dresden
• Invited panel participation at Semantic Web Policy Workshop 2005, Galway
• Invited panel participation at COMPSAC 2005, Edinburgh.

Other

• According to Google Scholar, over 6600 citations, h-index 39. According to Scopus, over 2900 citations, h-index 27.
• Participation to the standardization initiative W3C RIF (Rule Interchange Format) and member of W3C PLING (Policy Languages Interest Group).

Activities related to teaching

• Nov.2010 - june 2016: Chair of the Computer Science curricula of the Faculty of Science of the University of Naples Federico II. (Presidente del Consiglio dei Corsi di Studio in Informatica)
• Member of the Commissione didattica of GRIN – the Italian national association of computer scientists (http://www.grin-informatica.it/).
• Member of the Board of the PhD School in Scienze computazionali e informatiche at the University of Naples Federico II.
• Co-organizer of two advanced schools:
  • The 1998 GULP Int.l Summer School on Logic programming Perspectives in Hot Research Areas
  • The 2008 Reasoning Web summer school on Semantic Web techniques and applications, Venice (Italy), (http://reasoningweb.org/2008).
• Advanced courses, seminars, tutorials
  • KR for Security and Security for KR. Seminar for the PhD school in Computer Science of the University of Dresden. Jan 23, 2018
  • Semantic web reasoners: struttura, uso e ottimizzazioni. PhD course at the University of Naples Federico II
  • Rule-Based Policy Representation and Reasoning for the Semantic Web, joint tutorial with D. Olmedilla at the Reasoning Web School, Dresden, 2007
  • Semantic Web Policies: Where are we and What is still Missing?, joint tutorial with D. Olmedilla at RuleML’06
  • Semantic Web Policies: Where are we and What is still Missing?, joint tutorial with D. Olmedilla at ESWC’06
  • Nonmonotonic Logics: History, foundations, challenges, ICCL Summer School on Logic based Knowledge representation, Technische Universitaet Dresden, 2005
  • Logic programming and security, Technische Universitaet, Vienna, 2002
  • Nonmonotonic logics, their proof theory, and the application of these techniques to security, Universitaet Dortmund, Fachbereich Informatik, 2001
  • Proof-theory for non-monotonic logics, Technische Universitaet, Vienna, 1993-1994
• Other
  • Supervisor of numerous diploma, laurea, and PhD thesis at the universities of Torino, Milano, and Napoli. His student S. Baselice received a student paper award at IEEE POLICY 2007.