Bio Sketch
Riccardo Torlone is a full professor in the area of Information Systems at Università Roma Tre, where he is the head of the database research group. He received his Dr. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Università di Roma "La Sapienza". Before joining Università Roma Tre, he was member of the research staff at IASI-CNR in Rome. He also had a visiting research appointment at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). His research has
considered various topics in the database field, including the
following: relational database theory, active and deductive databases,
database design, object-oriented databases, data warehouse and OLAP,
Web-based information systems, data and metadata exchange, adaptive
information systems, semantic
data, query relaxation, graph databases, data analytics, and
NoSQL systems. Currently, his interests focus on the management of big data. He has published
his research results in the major journals of the field, including ACM
Transactions of Database Systems, VLDB Journal, Information Systems,
SIAM Journal of Computing, IEEE Transaction on Data and Knowledge
Engineering, Distributed and Parallel Databases, SIGMOD Record and in
the refereed proceedings of all the major conferences (ACM-SIGMOD,
VLDB, EDBT, ACM-PODS, IEEE-ICDE, ICDT, ER, CIKM). He has authored the
most spread book on databases in Italy,
published also in an international
edition and in several versions. He has also authored two other
books.
He has organized many national and international
scientific events (conferences and schools). He is member of the
editorial board of an international journal on computer science and
has served on the program committees of
many international conferences. He has been responsible of several
research projects funded by the European Commission and by several
public and private Italian institutions. He was the chair of the PhD
program in Computer Engineering and the vice-president of the School
of Engineering at Università Roma Tre. Currently, he is the chair of
the undergraduate and master programs
in Computer Engineering at Università Roma Tre.