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Nicola LEONE

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CURRENT POSITION Full professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics of University of Calabria, Coordinator of the PHD program in Mathematics and Informatics Director of the CINI Department of University of Calabria, Director of the INDAM Research Unit of University of Calabria. CAREER HISTORY 1986 - 1992: Research assistant at CRAI, Rende, Italy 1992 - 1995: Researcher at CNR (Italian National Research Council) 1995 - 2000: Professor of Database Systems at TU Vienna, Austria Since 2000: Professor of Computer Science at University of Calabria SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY Chair of the Steering Committee of LPNMR Member of the Steering Committee of JELIA Program chair: PADL'18, LBFLR'17, CILC'10, LPNMR'05, AGP'03, JELIA'02, LPNMR'99 Member of more than 100 program committees for AI and Database conferences Member of the Executive Board of the Italian Logic Programming Association -GULP - [2006-2012] TPLP, Area Editor for “Knowledge Representation and Nonmonotonic Reasoning AIJ, Guest Editor, 2002 TPLP, Guest Editor, 2012 Supervisor of more than 20 PHD dissertations, and more than 100 master theses INVITED TALKS (Selection) RW'15 RR'13 NMR'12 LaSh'10 ICLP'08 RR'07 LPNMR'07 LPAR'06 ISCL'02 SEBD'99 HONORS AND AWARDS (Selection) ECCAI Fellow Winner of Gems of PODS 2016 Best Paper Award ICLP'15 Winner of the ACM PODS Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for 2009 Best Student Paper Award ICLP'17 Top Italian Scientists of the Via Academy (www.via-academy.org) RESEARCH AREAS Artificial Intelligence Database systems and deductive databases Disjunctive Logic programming Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and reasoning Algorithms and complexity in databases and AI SPIN-OFF Founder of 3 spin-off: • DLVSystem s.r.l. (Winner of Start-Cup Calabria 2010) • Exeura s.r.l. • Artemat s.r.l. BIBLIOMETRIC DATA More than 250 papers, 80 journal papers H-Index (Scholar): 52 Citations: 9600
CURRICULUM VITAE OF PROFESSOR NICOLA LEONE -------------------------------------- 1 PERSONAL DATA AND CURRENT POSITIONS • Date and place of birth: February 28th, 1963, Diamante (Italy) • Degrees: Master in Mathematics (University of Calabria), Full Professor • Citizenship: Italian citizen • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Italy. • Current positions: -- Full professor in Computer Science at University of Calabria, -- The Rector of the University of Calabria. 2 CAREER HISTORY • June 1986–December 1991: Research assistant at CRAI, Rende, Italy • January 1992–September 1995: Researcher at CNR (Italian National Research Council), based at the ISI CNR Institute in Rende, Italy • October 1995–September 2000: Professor of Database Systems in the Institute of Information Systems at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), Austria • Since October 2000: Full professor of Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Calabria. • October 2000–October 2008: Chair of the Computer Science Bachelor and Master Program, University of Calabria. • January 2009-October 2013: Director of the PHD School in Systems Engineering, Informatics, Mathematics, and Operation Research of University of Calabria. • July 2008-October 2018: Coordinator of the PHD program in Mathematics and Informatics of University of Calabria. • November 2008-October 2018: Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Calabria. • Since November 2019: Rector of University of Calabria. 3 SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY • Chair of the Steering Committee of the the International Conference on Logic Programming and NonMonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR) since January 2003. • Member of the Steering Committee of the European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA). • Member of the Steering Committee of WASP (2002–2005) - Working Group on Answer Set Programming, funded by the European Commission, within the fifth programme. • Member of the Executive Board of the Italian Logic Programming Association - GULP [2006-2012]. • Member of the Executive Board of the international Association of Logic Programming (ALP_ • Program/General chair: --- AI*IA 2019 - 18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Cosenza, Italy, November 20-22, 2019 (General Chair). --- JELIA 2019 - 16th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, Rende, Italy, May, 2019 (General Chair). --- Datalog 2.0 2019 - 3rd International Workshop on the Resurgence of Datalog in Academia and Industry, June 3-5, 2019, Philadelphia, PA (USA) (General Chair). --- PADL 2018 - 20th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, Los Angeles, California, United States, January 8--13 2018. --- LBFLR 2017 - International Workshop on Logic-Based Formalisms for Legal Reasoning}, Rende, Italy, May 18-19, 2017. --– CILC’10 – 25th Italian Conference on Computational Logics, Cosenza, Italy, July 2010. --– LPNMR’05 – 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Calabria, Italia, September 5–8, 2005. --– INFOMIX Workshop on Data Integration Calabria, Italia, September 8, 2005. --– APPIA-GULP-PRODE’03 – Joint Conference on Declarative Programming, Reggio Calabria, September 2003. --– JELIA’02 – European Conference on Logic in Artificial Intelligence, Rende, September 23–26, 2002. --– LPNMR’99 – 5th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, El Paso, Texas USA, 2-4 Dicembre 1999. • Member of numerous (more than 100) program committees for conferences and workshops in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Databases, including IJCAI, KR, AAAI, ECAI, ICLP, LPNMR, PODS, ICDT. For several meetings, service has been made over an extended period. Recent meetings (selection): KR 2022, ICLP 2022, KR 2021, ICLP 2021, KR 2020, ICLP 2020, LPNMR 2019, JELIA 2019, AI*IA 2019, PODS 2018, FOIKS 2018, KR 2018, ICLP 2018, AI*IA 2017, KR 2016, JELIA 2016, AAAI 2015, IJCAI 2015, AAAI 2014, JELIA 2014, KR 2014, LPNMR 2013, PAI 2013, JELIA 2012, KR 2012, NMR 2012, ICLP 2012, ECAI 2012, ICLP 2011, LPNMR 2011, INAP 2011, KR 2010, JELIA 2010. • Editorial Responsibilities: --- Journal of the Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, Cambridge University Press, Area Editor for “Knowledge Representation and Nonmonotonic Reasoning”. --- Intelligenza Artificiale - The International Journal of the AI*IA, IOS Press, member of the Editorial Board. --- Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), Guest Editor, Special Issue on Knowledge Representation and Logic Programming, Elsevier, Volume 138, N. 1 and 2, June, 2002. --- Journal of the Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Guest Editor, Special Issue on the 25th Italian Conference on Computational Logics, 2012. • Reviews for many conferences and journals, including top journals like ACM Transactions, Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), and IEEE Transactions. • Reviewer of national and many international scientific projects in various countries, including the EU programs FP5, FP6. • Supervisor of more than 20 PHD dissertations, and more than 100 master theses in Computer Science. Many former students of Nicola Leone are now University Professors and well-reputed AI researchers. For instance, just to name a few, Francesco Calimeri, Simona Perri, Giovanni Grasso, Mario Alviano and Francesco Ricca are Associate Professors at University of Calabria; while Francesco Scarcello is full professor there. Christoph Koch is Professor at EPFL, Axel Polleres is full professor at the University of Vienna. Wolfgang Faber is full professor at the University of Klagenfurt. 4 INVITED TALKS (Selection) • 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K-2018), Seville, Spain, 18-20 September, 2018. • Workshop on Logic and Practice of Programming (LPoP 2018), Oxford, UK, July 18, 2018. • The 11th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW-2015), Berlin, Germany, July 31 -- August 4, 2015. • 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR-2013), Mannheim, Germany, July 27--29, 2013. • 14th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning – NMR 2012, Rome, Italy, June 8-10, 2012. • 3th International Workshop on Logic and Search (LaSh 2010), Edinburgh, U.K., July 15, 2010. • 24th International Conference on Logic Programming – ICLP 2008, December 9-13 2008, Udine, Italy • First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems – RR’07, Innsbruck (Austria), 7-8 June 2007. • 9th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning – LPNMR’07, Tempe, AZ., US, May 14-17,2007. • 13th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning – LPAR 2006, Phnom Penh, Cambogia, 13–17 Novembre 2006. • Second International Summer School in Computational Logic – ISCL 2002, Acquafredda di Maratea (Basilicata, Italy) August 25-30, 2002. • Seventh Italian Conference on Advanced Database Systems - SEBD’99, Villa Olmo Como, June 23-25, 1999 (tutorialist). • Workshop on Logic Approach to Artificial Intelligence, Washington, D.C., June 14-16, 1999. 5 HONORS AND AWARDS • EurAI Fellow since August 2012 (Montpellier, France). The EurAI Fellows program recognizes individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe. The EurAI Fellows Program honors only a very small percentage of the total membership of all EurAI member societies (up to a maximum of 3%). • AAIA Fellow since 2021, elected by the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) in November 2021. • Member of the Academia Europaea, since 2019. • Honorary professor at the TU Wien, since 2019. • Winner of the Test-of-Time Award (Oxford, UK, July 2018), at the 34th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) (paper with the highest impact of the previous ten years) • Winner of the Best Student Paper Award (Melbourne, Australia, Agosto 2017) at 33th International Conference of Logic Programming (ICLP) with Giovanni Amendola and Marco Manna. • Winner of Best Paper Award at the International Conference of Logic Programming - ICLP (Cork, Ireland, September 2015) – the most important conference woldwide in the field of logic programming – for the paper "Complexity and Compilation of GZ-Aggregates in Answer Set Programming", coauthored with Mario Alviano. • Winner of ACM-PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award (Providence, New York, USA, 2009), with Georg Gottlob and Francesco Scarcello. PODS (ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems) is the most important conference in the field of Database Theory woldwide. • Winner of the prize Gems of PODS (San Francisco, USA, June 26, 2016), for the research on Hypertree Decompositions, carried out with Georg Gottlob, Gianluigi Greco and Francesco Scarcello. • Winner of the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference of Logic Programming - ICLP (Melbourne, Australia, August 2017), for the paper "Finite model reasoning over existential rules", coauthored with Giovanni Amendola and Marco Manna. • Winner of prize "Cedro della Riviera" for Scientific Research in 2017. • Winner of prize "Pericle D’Oro" for Scientific Research in 2016. • Winner of prize "La Calabria nel mondo" in 2013. • Winner of prize "Galarte Scienza 2011" - supported by the President of the Italian Republic, and granted to the best calabrian scientists of the year. • Winner of a Civic Honor, in 2011 in Diamante, for the excellence of his research activities. • Member of the list of the "Top Italian Scientist" of the Via Academy (www.via-academy.org), listing the most cited italian scientists. 6 PROJECTS AND GRANTS 6.1 Principal Investigator (PI) ▪ PRIN 2019 (National coordinator) funded by MIUR - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, "Declarative Reasoning over Streams". Cost: 716,538 Euro. Funding: 299,952 Euro. ▪ PON 2019 funded by MISE - Italian Ministry for Economic Development. "MAP4ID"Budget 2,900,000 Euro. ▪ PON 2014/2020 funded by MISE - Italian Ministry for Economic Development. "Smarter Solutions in the Big Data World - S2BDW" (CUP B28I17000250008). Cost 2,628,098 Euro; Funding 1,612,687 Euro. ▪ POR CALABRIA 2014/2020. Funded by Regione Calabria. "DLV Large Scale: un sistema per applicazioni di Intelligenza Artificiale in architetture data-intensive e mobile" (CUP J28C17000220006). Cost 728,622 Euro; Funding 498,000 Euro. ▪ Fifth Framework Programme, Future Emerging Technologies (FET). Funded by European Commission. "INFOMIX: Boosting Information Integration" (IST-2001-33570 INFOMIX) 2001-2005. Cost 1,630,640 Euro; Funding 815,070 Euro. ▪ PRIN 2006 (National Coordinator). Funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry for University and Research). "Potenziamento e Applicazioni della Programmazione Logica Disgiuntiva". Cost 164,700; Funding 84,439 Euro. ▪ INTERLINK 2004-2006 - Italia-Austria Internationalisation Project. Funded by MIUR. "Sistemi Basati Sulla Logica per la Rappresentazione di Conoscenza: Estensioni e Tecniche di Ottimizzazione" (N. II04CG8AGG). Cost 91,000; Funding 82,000 Euro. ▪ FWF 1996-1999. Project P11580-MAT "A Query System for Disjunctive Deductive Databases", funded by FWF (Austrian Science Fund). Funding 2,416,000 OS. ▪ POR CALABRIA 2007/2013: PIA 2010. Funded by Regione Calabria: --- Project “Knowrex: Un sistema per l’estrazione e la gestione della conoscenza" (Prot. Regione Cal. 4331). Cost 621,618 Euro; Funding 467,714 Euro. --- Project "iTravel PLUS - intelligent Touristic Advisor PLUS” (Prot. Regione Cal.n.4535). Cost 524,600 Euro; Funding 383,500 Euro. ▪ POR CALABRIA 2007/2013: PIA 2008. Funded by Regione Calabria. --- Project “Estensioni e verticalizzazioni del Sistema di Intelligenza Artificiale DLV” (Prog. Num. 1220000330). Cost 439,233 Euro; Funding 336,182 Euro. --- Project "iTravel - intelligent Touristic Advisor” (Prog. Num. 1220000185). Cost 434,400 Euro; Funding 327,124 Euro. ▪ PON-03 (Piano Operativo Nazionale) 2011. High Education Project “Framer" (PON01_02477/F – CUP: B28F11000540005) con Siemens. Cost and Funding 415,529 Euro. ▪ PON-03 (Piano Operativo Nazionale) 2013. High Education Project "BA2Know Training" (PON03PE_00001_1_F - CUP: B79D14016920001) with Consorzio pubblico-privato SI-LAB Calabria. Cost and Funding: 450,000 Euro 6.2 Responsible of Research Unit (Selection) ▪ Agenda digitale D.M. 15/10/2014 Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico (MISE). Project "PIU' CULTURA - Paradigmi Innovativi per l’Utilizzo della Cultura" (Progetto n. F/020016/01-02/X27). Cost and Funding of the Unit: 223,700 Euro. ▪ PON 2014/2020 Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico (MISE). Project “ALCMEONE” - Modelli innovativi di Integrated Care per una piattaforma e-Health. Cost of the Unit: 131,250 Euro. Funding of the Unit: 78,750 Euro. ▪ PON-03 (Piano Operativo Nazionale) 2013. Research Project "Business Analytics to Know - BA2KNOW” (PON03PE_00001_1 - CUP : B72F14000170003) with Consorzio pubblico-privato SI-LAB Calabria. Cost of the Unit: 474,999 Euro. Funding of the Unit: 354,999 Euro. ▪ POR Calabria 2007-2013, Agenda Strategica Poli di Innovazione. Project "THT Talent Hunter Technology” (CUP: J84E07000540005). Cost of the unit: 183,594 Euro. Funding: 138,326 Euro. ▪ Fifth Framework Programme UE. Project "ICONS: Intelligent Content Management System" (IST-2001-32429 ICONS). ▪ Fifth Framework Programme UE. WASP: Working Group on Answer Set Programming (IST-2001-37004 WASP), 2002-2005. ▪ PON-01 (Piano Operativo Nazionale) 2011: Research Project “Frame" (PON01_02477 - CUP: B21H11000610005) with Siemens. ▪ PON-01 (Piano Operativo Nazionale) 2011: Research Project “TETRIS" (PON 01_00451 - CUP: B21C11000210005) with Competence Center ICT-SUD. ▪ POR CALABRIA 2000-2006 “Ricerca e Sviluppo Tecnologico nelle imprese Regionali”. Project Ellade. ELectronic Live ADaptive Learning. 7 SPIN-OFF Founder of 3 spin-off companies of University of Calabria: • DLVSYSTEM s.r.l. (Winner of the Start-Cup Calabria 2010 competition) • Exeura s.r.l. • Artemat s.r.l. 8 CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS AND INTERESTS • Logic-Based Artificial Intelligence • Artificial Intelligence in health and medicine • Database systems and deductive databases • Answer Set Programming • Knowledge representation and reasoning/Nonmonotonic Reasoning • Algorithms and computational complexity in databases and AI 9 BIBLIOMETRIC DATA More than 250 papers: 6 edited books/special issues; 11 chapters in books; 80 journal papers; more than 140 in international conferences). Many of the journal/conference papers in leading forums (including Artificial Intelligence, JACM, JAIR, JCSS, ACM TODS, ACM TOCL, IEEE TKDE, TCS, TPLP, ...) and conferences (IJCAI, AAAI, FOCS, KR, ECAI, LPNMR, ICLP, PODS, ICDT, ...). • Papers in DBLP: 280. [see https://dblp.org/pid/l/NicolaLeone.html] • H-Index in Google-Scholar: 57. • Citations in Google-Scholar: 12,400. [ see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CfWxOHAAAAAJ&hl=en] Most cited paper: N. Leone, et al. ”The DLV System for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning” ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, ACM Press, 7(3), July 2006, pp. 499–562. The paper counts 1491 citations (on March 25, 2022) and it is the most highly cited paper of the journal ACM Transactions on Computational Logic since its start.
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