Alberto Corni Curriculum Vitae

Intro

I am a Software Engeneer collaborating with the Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia. In 2001 I obtained the Dottorato (PhD) degree from the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS) of the University of Bologna. I worked with Professor Sonia Bergamaschi and my tutor was Professor Claudio Sartori

Research topics:

- Integration of heterogeneous data sources (see MOMIS) - Databases and information retrieval - Schema optimization in OODBMS (see ODBTools)

Curriculum

Instruction

March 2001 Dottorato (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Bologna

March 1997 Degree (Italian laurea) in Engineering (Computer Science) at the University of Modena (Italy) with 110/110 cum Laude

Technical knowledge

Java: Jakarta.Turbine, J2EE (Bea.Weblogic, Jboss)

Management and networking: on Linux, Solaris

Programming languages: Java, Perl, C++, SQL

DBMS: MySql

Work experiences

now I'm working since 2006 as Computer Science Technician at DII. My roles are Manager of the Campus Network and Web administrator (of Mediawiki)

2001 I worked till the 2006 as Software Engeneer in Democenter (* *) as design and developmer of Web applications.

2001 Designer of the LoNem software architecture ( * )

1999 Consulting activity for Ecipar Soc. Cons. a R.L. (Bologna)

1997 Consultant for CINECA (Inter University consortium): Project and developement of an information system for a mechanical enterprise: Access (Prototype), Oracle (DBMS), Java (Internet front-end)

Academic experience

now I'm part of the DBGroup research group at the Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia. My role is designer and developer of the Source integrator tool MOMIS.

2002 Part of the SEWASIE european project (search engine for accessing to heterogeneous data sources via semantic enrichment using ontologies)

2001 Ph.D. Thesis: Intelligent Information Integration: The MOMIS Project

2000 Reference engineer for the development of the MOMIS prototype (Integration of Multiple Information Sources)

1999 Six month visit at the Northeastern University (Boston, USA) working with professor Kennet Baclawski on an Information Retrieval project based on ontologies.

1998 Participation at the development of ODBTools prototype (OODB schemas supporting schema validation and reorganization)

Laurea Thesis 1997 Concerning Data Bases, with professor Sonia Bergamaschi. ODB-DSQO a ODMG-93 standard compliant OODB schema validator and query optimizer WWW server

1995 Participation at ACM collegiate programming contest

1994 Participation at ACM collegiate programming contest

Publications

2000 Information Integration: the MOMIS Project Demonstration. Autors: S.Bergamaschi, S.Castano, A.Corni, R.Guidetti, G.Malvezzi, M.Merchiori and M.Vincini in the VLDB demo session, September 2000, Cairo, Egypt (speaker).

2000 Creazione di una vista globale d'impresa con il sistema MOMIS basato su Description Logics, authors: D.Beneventano, S.Bergamaschi, A.Corni and M.Vincini, Numero Speciale di AI*IA Notizie, Periodico dell'Associazione Italiana per l'intelligenza Artificiale sul tema della gestione di basi di conoscenza d'impresa.

1998 Status of the art of the data-warehouse commercial systems, authors: A.Corni, M.Vincini, (INTERDATA research project)

1998 Status of art of intelligent information extraction/integration research, authors: S.Bergamaschi, D.Beneventano, A.Corni, M.Vincini (INTERDATA research project}.

1997 ODB-Tool: validazione di schemi e ottimizzazione semantica on-line per basi di dati object oriented (in Italian), authors: D.Beneventano, A.Corni, S.Lodi, and M.Vincini; Convegno su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD'97), Verona, Italy, June 1997.