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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 2013. Professional Certifications Project Management Professional (PMP/PMI)  PRINCE2  ITIL v.3 Analyst Programmer Academic Experience 2014 -         : Professor of Management of Innovation and Product Development at HEIG-VD, Yverdon-les-bains, Switzerland. 2012 - 2013 : Associate Dean and Professor of Business and Technology Management at UBIS University, Geneva. 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 2010 - 2012 CTO and co-founder of Interanalytics. 2012 -         Director and Founder and LeanStart.ch.

Domains of Competence

Computing  Management Human Language Technology  Intelligent Agents Ubiquitous Computing Multi-Agent Systems Software Engineering Human-Computer Interaction Kinetic User Interfaces Context-awareness Web Development 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   Lean Startup Corporate Information Strategy Project Management (PMP, PRINCE2) IT Services Management Team Management and Collaboration Entrepreneurship Management Information Systems Business Analytics Customer Relationship Management Information Retrieval/Extraction Question-Answering Computational Linguistics Language Engineering Lexical Semantics Robust Text Analysis Computational Semantics and Pragmatics Dialogue Systems Argumentation Theory Multimodal Dialogue Management Voice Browsing

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) Traitement Informatique des Données Textuelles (EPFL) Post-graduate course in Speech & Language Engineering (EPFL) Documents Multimedia (EPFL) 2002 Traitement Informatique des Données Textuelles (EPFL) 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) Traitement Informatique des Données Textuelles (EPFL) 2007 Ubiquitous Computing: Coordination and Fundamental Tools (University of Fribourg) Artificial Intelligence (University of Fribourg) 2008 Concurrent, Distributed and Parallel Programming (University of Fribourg) Computing Applications: Search Engines (Webster University, Geneva) Information Systems (Webster University, Geneva) 2009 Management Information Systems (European University, Geneva) System Analysis and Design (Webster University, Geneva) 2010 Database Concepts and Applications (Webster University, Geneva) Information Systems I and II (Webster University, Geneva) 2012 Project Management (University of Geneva) Project Management (UBIS, Geneva) Project Management (CEFCO, Geneva) Web Strategies (UBIS, Geneva) Corporate Information Strategy (UBIS, Geneva) Research and Statistical Methods (UBIS, Geneva) Computing Fundamentals (UBIS, Geneva) Organizational Behavior (UBIS, Geneva) Operations Management (UBIS, Geneva) ITIL Service Management (University of Geneva) 2013 Strategic Management (UBIS, Geneva) Entrepreneurship (UBIS, Geneva) Social Psychology (UBIS, Geneva) Corporate Social Responsibility (UBIS, Geneva) Project Management (University of Geneva) 2014 Project Management (University of Geneva)