Prof. Riccardo Torlone

Bio Sketch

Riccardo Torlone is a professor in the area of Information Systems at Università Roma Tre, where he is the head of the Big Data Laboratory & 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: database theory, database design, object-oriented databases, data warehouse and OLAP, Web-based information systems, database integration, model management, adaptive information systems, user preferences, query relaxation, keyword search, Semantic Web, social networks, polystores, data lakes, and NoSQL databases. He has published his research results in the major journals of the field, including Journal of ACM (JACM), ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), VLDB Journal, Information Systems, SIAM Journal of Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data  Engineering (TKDE), Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), 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 Università Roma Tre. Currently, he is member of the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence of the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID), the technical office of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.