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I am a Computer Scientist interested broadly in the areas of Information Systems, Human Language Technology, Human Machine Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. I have been actively working in this area since 1985. Academic Degrees M.Sc. degree (Laurea in Scienze dell'Informazione, summa cum laude) from the Computer Science Departement of the University of Pisa in 1997. Ph.D.  degree (Docteur és Science) in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) in 2002. Habilitation in Informatics from University of Fribourg, expected in 2011. Certifications PMP/PMI,  PRINCE2  ITIL v.3 Analyst Programmer Academic Experience 2008 - 2010: Research Coordinator and Adjunct Professor in Business and Technology at the Webster University, Geneva. 2008 - 2009: Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Geneva, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences. 2005- 2008: Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Fribourg, Department of Computer Science, Pervasive Artificial Intelligence group.  2005: Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), University of Stanford. 2005: Lecturer and Senior Researcher at Center of Global Computing in the School of Information and Communication Sciences (I&C) at EPFL, 2004-2005: Visiting Scholar at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley. 2004-2005: Visiting Scholar at the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. 2002 - 2005: Senior Researcher in the MDM group of the Swiss National Center of Competence IM2. 2002-2004: Lecturer and Senior Research Assistant at the NLP Group, Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). 1998-2002: Lecturer and Research Assistant at the MEDIA group, Laboratory of Theoretical Computer Science, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL).  Entrepreneurial CTO and co-founder of Interanalytics.

Domains of Competence

Human Language Technology Information Retrieval/Extraction Question-Answering Computational Linguistics Language Engineering Lexical Semantics Robust Text Analysis Computational Semantics and Pragmatics Dialogue Systems Argumentation Theory Intelligent Agents Ubiquitous Computing Multi-Agent Systems Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Human-Computer Interaction Kinetic User Interfaces Context-awareness Ubiquitous Computing Multimodal Dialogue Management Voice Browsing Multimodal Web Knowledge Representation in Artificial Intelligence Reasoning about Action and Change Logics of Knowledge and Belief Multi-context logics Computational Logic Logic Programming Metalogic Constraint Programming Deductive Databases Semantic Web Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Semantics of Programming Languages

Research Projects

DATASIFT (Data Mining) ROTA (RObust Text Analysis) ISIS (Interaction through Speech with Information Servers) HERALD (Hybrid Environment for Robust Analysis of Language Data (gzipped postscript) INSPIRE (Infotainment management with speech interaction via remote-microphones and telephone intefaces). IM2.MDM (Interactive Multimodal Interface Management, Multimodal Dialogue Management). CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes). ROMANCE FrameNet. uMove (Interaction through motion with ubiquitous computing systems, Kinetic User Interfaces) SumMeet (Abstractive Summarization of Meetings at Webster University, Geneva

Ph.D. Thesis

CLE: Cognitive Language Engineering: towards Robust Human-Computer Interaction.

Teaching

1999 Théorie des Langage de Programmation (EPFL) 2000 Théorie des Langage de Programmation (EPFL) 2001 Théorie des Langage de Programmation (EPFL) 2001 Traitement Informatique des Données Textuelles (EPFL) 2001 Post-graduate course in Speech & Language Engineering (EPFL) 2001 Documents Multimedia (EPFL) 2002 Traitement Informatique des Données Textuelles (EPFL) 2002 Post-graduate course in Speech & Language Engineering (EPFL) 2003 Traitement Informatique des Données Textuelles (EPFL) 2005 Traitement Informatique des Données Textuelles (EPFL) 2006 Ubiquitous Computing: Coordination and Fundamental Tools (University of Fribourg) 2006 Traitement Informatique des Données Textuelles (EPFL) 2007 Ubiquitous Computing: Coordination and Fundamental Tools (University of Fribourg) 2007 Artificial Intelligence (University of Fribourg) 2008 Concurrent, Distributed and Parallel Programming (University of Fribourg) 2008 Computing Applications: Search Engines (Webster University, Geneva) 2008 Information Systems (Webster University, Geneva) 2009 Management Information Systems (European University, Geneva) 2009 System Analysis and Design (Webster University, Geneva) 2010 Database Concepts and Applications (Webster University, Geneva) 2010 Information Systems I and II (Webster University, Geneva)