Istituto di scienza e tecnologie dell'Informazione, CNR

Born in Salerno (Italy), I earned my PhD in Computer Science at University of Pisa with the thesis "Human Mobility, Social Networks and Economic Development: a Data Science perspective". In my research, I exploit the power of Big Data to study many aspects of human behavior: the patterns of human mobility, the structure and evolution of complex networks, the patterns of success in sports, and the usage of data-driven measures of human behavior to monitor and predict the economic development of countries, cities, and territories.

Alejandro Moreo Fernández received a PhD in Computer Sciences and Information Technologies from the University of Granada in 2013. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione ``A. Faedo'', which is part of the National Research Council (CNR). His research interests include deep learning and representation learning, with particular focus on imbalanced text classification, multilingual text classification, and cross-domain and cross-lingual sentiment classification.

Roberto Trasarti was born in 1979 in Italy. He graduated in Computer Science in 2006, at the University of Pisa. He discussed his thesis on ConQueSt: a Constraint-based Query System aimed at supporting frequent patterns discovery. He started the Ph.D. in Computer Science at the School for Graduate Studies "Galileo Galilei", (University of Pisa). In June 2010 he received his Ph.D. presenting the thesis entitled "Mastering the Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Discovery Process".

Salvatore Rinzivillo was born in 1976 in Ragusa, and holds a Laurea degree in Computer Science (University of Catania, 2001). Since 2002 he has been a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Pisa. His current research interests are data mining, knowledge discovery in spatial and spatio-temporal databases, and visual analytics methods for Big Data.

Franco Maria Nardini (http://hpc.isti.cnr.it/∼nardini/) is currently a Researcher at ISTI–CNR in Pisa. He received his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa in 2011 discussing his thesis ``Query Log Mining to Enhance User Experience in Search Engines''. His research interests are focused on Web Information Retrieval, Data Mining, and Machine Learning. Franco Maria Nardini is member of the program committee of important conferences in IR and DM like ACM CIKM, SIGKDD, WSDM, etc.

He is a researcher at the ISTI institute of CNR, Pisa. He holds a degree (1996) and a PhD (2001) in Computer Science, both obtained at the Pisa University. His research topics include data mining in general, clustering methods, mobility data analysis and their applications. He participated to several national and international projects, the most recent being PETRA, a UE project centered around mobility in a "smart cities" context. He has been a visiting in a few international institutes, including M.I.T. in Boston and University of New Brunswick in Canada.

Raffaele Perego, is a senior researcher of the italian National Research Council (CNR). He leads the High Performance Computing Laboratory (HPC Lab, http://hpc.isti.cnr.it) belonging to the “Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Informazione A. Faedo” (ISTI), the largest CNR institute involved in ICT Research. The laboratory is located in the CNR Research Area of Pisa, and is closely linked with the University of Pisa and the SoBigData Lab.

Fosca Giannotti is a senior researcher at the Information Science and Technology Institute of the National Research Council at Pisa, Italy, where she leads the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory – KDD LAB – a joint research initiative with the University of Pisa, founded in 1995, one of the earliest European research groups specifically targeted at data mining and knowledge discovery.

Dr. Claudio Lucchese is a researcher with the I.S.T.I. “A. Faedo” – C.N.R. since 2007. Prior to joining C.N.R., he received his MS.c. and Ph.D. from the Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia in 2003 and 2008, respectively. His main research activities are in the areas of data mining techniques for information retrieval, large-scale data processing and cloud computing.

Andrea has master in computer science and a phd in information engineering. Since 2011 is a researched at Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo", which is part of the National Research Council (CNR). His research is in Human Language Technologies area, with a focus on Text Classification, Information Extraction and Sentiment Analysis.