Bio Sketch
Riccardo Torlone is a full professor in the area of Information Systems at Universitą Roma Tre, where he is the head of the Big Data Laboratory & Research Group. He received his Dr. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Universitą di Roma "La Sapienza". Before joining Universitą 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, database integration, adaptive
information systems, semantic data, query relaxation, graph databases,
data analytics, keyword search 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 on Database Systems, VLDB Journal, Information Systems,
SIAM Journal of Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering, Distributed and Parallel Databases, SIGMOD Record, PVLDB
and in the refereed proceedings of all the major conferences
(ACM-SIGMOD, ACM-PODS, ACM-KDD, VLDB, IEEE-ICDE, EDBT, ICDT, 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 three
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 , the vice-president of the School of
Engineering, and the chair of the undergraduate and master programs
in Computer Engineering at Universitą Roma Tre. Currently, he is
member of the Task
Force on Artificial Intelligence of the Italian Government.