BIG DATA Laboratory

The Laboratory includes 36 joining Nodes, distributed over the country and corresponding to Italian Universities that are members of the CINI consortium.

Each joining Node includes a contact person, professors with a permanent position, and researchers with non-permanent positions (Ph.D. students, post-doc, research assistants). The areas of expertise of each Node are listed below.

 

# University Contact person Area Members with permanent position Areas of expertise
1 Università degli Studi dell'Aquila Mattia d’Emidio INF/01 12 (1) Algorithms for massive graphs
          (2) Massive-scale multi-entity computing systems
          (3) Machine learning algorithms for optimal control and fault detection
          (4) Scalable hybrid data persistence architectures (polystore design)
          (5) Large-scale machine learning
          (6) Large-scale text mining
          (7) Artificial intelligence for medical imaging
          (8) Algorithm engineering
          (9) Massively parallel computational frameworks
2 Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Donato Malerba ING-INF/05 17 (1) Big data analytics
          (2) Machine learning
          (3) Data mining
          (4) Data science
          (5) Process mining
          (6) Applications
3 Università degli Studi di Bologna Marco Patella ING-INF/05 7 (1) Multi-model db design
          (2) AutoML
          (3) Stream processing
          (4) Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data analysis
          (5) Machine learning for health
4 Università degli Studi di Brescia Devis Bianchini ING-INF/05 8 (1) Multi-dimensional analysis of data streams
          (2) Data modeling in cyber-physical systems
          (3) Big Data exploration
          (4) (Semantic) Data Lakes design and querying
          (5) data integration
          (6) Human-in-the-Loop data analysis
          (7) Big Data quality
5 Università degli Studi di Cagliari Maurizio Atzori INF/01 5 (1) Big data and data integration
          (2) Knowledge graphs
          (3) Feature selection
          (4) NLP on structred data (including question answering on database)
          (5) SPARQL
          (6) Data mining
6 Università della Calabria Domenico Talia ING-INF/05 19 (1) Big data analysis
          (2) Data science & engineering
          (3) Cloud-based data mining
          (4) Information extraction
          (5) NoSQL databases
7 Università degli Studi di Camerino Emanuela Merelli INF/01   (1) Data shaping (TDA)
          (2) Topology field theory of data
          (3) Data-driven methods for systems biology
          (4) Data and process mining
8 Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli” Beniamino di Martino ING-INF/05 7 (1) High performance computing and big data
          (2) Artificial intelligence
          (3) Cloud
          (4) Cloud-edge
          (5) Process mining
          (6) Semantics
          (7) Infrastructure as code
          (8) Containers
          (9) Web services and microservices
9 CNR, IIT Andrea Passarella INF/01 8 (1) Social network analytics
          (2) Social-aware AI
          (3) Decentralised AI
          (4) Opinion dynamics
          (5) E-Health
          (6) Mobile health
          (7) Decentralised data management
10 CNR, ISTI Roberto Trasarti INF/01   (1) Mobility Analytics
          (2) Network Analytics
          (3) Explainable AI
          (4) Research Infrastructures
          (5) Text mining
          (6) Transfer learning
          (7) Heterogeneous and Edge computing
          (8) Multimedia
          (9) Information Retrieval and Analysis
          (10) Open science
11 Università degli Studi di Ferrara Fabrizio Riguzzi ING-INF/05 14 (1) Machine learning
          (2) Analytics
          (3) Probabilistic inductive logic programming
          (4) Industry 4.0
          (5) Big data for digital manufacturing
          (6) Constrained optimization
12 Università degli Studi di Genova Davide Anguita ING-INF/05 10 (1) Large scale data management
          (2) Data Intensive computing framework
          (3) Artificial intelligence
          (4) Machine learning
          (5) Cybersecurity
          (6) Adversarial machine learning
          (7) AI security
          (8) Human-centered data
          (9) Open data
          (10) Health
          (11) HPC
13 IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca Fabio Pinelli INF/01 6 (1) Software quality
          (2) Software Verification
          (3) Machine learning
          (4) Cybersecurity
          (5) Distributed computing
14 Università Politecnica delle Marche Domenico Potena ING-INF/05 4 (1) Big data management and analytics
          (2) Social network analysis
          (3) Process mining
          (4) Sentiment analysis
          (5) Data semantics
          (6) Machine learning
          (7) Data science
15 Università degli Studi di Messina Salvatore DiStefano ING-INF/05 4 (1) HPC
          (2) Cloud
          (3) Batch, Steam, and Event Processing
          (4) Data Modelling
          (5) Distributed ledgers
          (6) Artificial Intelligence
16 Università degli Studi di Milano Ernesto Damiani INF/01   (1) Big data
          (2) Large-scale analytics
          (3) Security
          (4) Data management and governance
          (5) Digital health
17 Politecnico di MILANO Davide Martinenghi ING-INF/05 8 (1) Data integration in big data
          (2) Ethics and ranking in big data
          (3) Anomaly detection
          (4) Parallel and distributed data streaming architectures
          (5) Quantum machine learning
          (6) Smart agriculture
          (7) FPGA
18 Università degli Studi di Modena - Reggio Emilia Sonia Bergamaschi ING-INF/05 21 (1) Big data analytics and keyword search on structured data sources
          (2) Big data in socio-technical systems
          (3) Algorithms for analysis of data produced by DNA sequencers
          (4) Multimedia big data
          (5) Visual computing and multimedia processing
          (6) Security intelligence for large sets of continuously fed events gathered from structured and unstructured sources
19 Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Vincenzo Moscato INF/01 17 (1) Big data mining
          (2) Multimedia big data
          (3) Big data modeling
          (4) Big data privacy
          (5) Big data for enterprise transformation
          (6) Scientific applications of big data
20 Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope Angelo Ciaramella INF/01 9 (1) Computational intelligence
          (2) Machine learning
          (3) Big data
          (4) Intelligent signal processing
          (5) Bioinformatics
21 Università degli Studi di Padova Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio INF/01 14 (1) Computer vision and NLP
          (2) Machine learning and deep learning
          (3) Analysis of big process-data
          (4) Distributed and streaming algorithms for unsupervised learning
          (5) Intelligent interactive information access
          (6) Open science and evaluation
22 Università degli Studi di Palermo Roberto Pirrone ING-INF/05 13 (1) Medical imaging
          (2) NLP
          (3) Robotics
          (4) Cybersecurity
          (5) Cloud computing
          (6) Biomedical big data
          (7) Big data for society and cultural heritage
23 Università degli Studi di Pavia Antonino Nocera ING-INF/05 6 (1) Big data
          (2) Data analysis
          (3) Data processing
          (4) Healthcare data
          (5) Machine learning
          (6) Predictive analytics
24 Università degli Studi di Perugia Fabrizio Montecchiani ING-INF/05 6 (1) Large networks and graphs
          (2) Distributed algorithms for big graphs
          (3) Visual analytics for big data
          (4) Big data information security
25 Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Luigi Portinale INF/01 5 (1) Machine learning and knowledge extraction
          (2) Management and analysis of healthchare big data
          (3) Retrieval and analysis of data as time series
          (4) Extraction, grouping and verification of processes
          (5) HPC techniques and cloud infrastructures for big data
26 Università degli Studi di Pisa Dino Pedreschi INF/01 11 (1) Information retrieval
          (2) Data mining
          (3) Social media
          (4) Social network
          (5) Deep learning
          (6) Natural language processing
          (7) Big data bases
          (8) Blockchains
          (9) knowledge graphs
          (10) Trustworthy AI
          (11) Big data infrastructures and applications
27 Università degli Studi di Pisa - Ingegneria Marco Avvenuti ING-INF/05 2 (1) Artificial intelligence
          (2) Data analysis for monitoring
          (3) Process mining
28 Università degli Studi Roma3 Riccardo Torlone ING-INF/05 5 (1) Big data management
          (2) Data integration
          (3) Data science
          (4) Data extraction
          (5) NoSQL databases
29 Università di Roma "La Sapienza” Domenico Lembo ING-INF/05 16 (1) Web algorithmics and data mining
          (2) Ontology-based access to big data
          (3) Performance engineering for big data computing
          (4) Secure and dependable complex systems
          (5) Modeling and mining in social networks
          (6) Real-time stream processing of big data
30 Università degli Studi di Salerno Giuseppe Polese INF/01 8 (1) Data integration
          (2) Data mining
          (3) Data profiling
          (4) Data visualization
          (5) Machine learning
          (6) Predictive analytics
          (7) Stream processing
          (8) Data privacy
          (9) Social network analysis
31 Università degli Studi del Sannio Eugenio Zimeo ING-INF/05 8 (1) Big data infrastructures
          (2) Big data processing & analysis
          (3) Machine learning
          (4) Cloud & HPC
          (5) Cybersecurity
          (6) Digital health
32 Università degli Studi di Torino Giancarlo Ruffo INF/01 16 (1) Data science
          (2) Network science
          (3) Information visualization
          (4) Computational social science
          (5) Information exploration support
          (6) Recommender systems
          (7) Semantic analysis
          (8) Machine learning
          (9) Data protection
          (10) IoT and sensors data analysis
          (11) Visual data learning
          (12) Sentiment analysis
33 Università degli Studi di Trento Marco Calautti INF/01 5 (1) Data integration
          (2) Inconsistent data
          (3) Ontological reasoning
          (4) High performance computing
          (5) Large-scale graph analysis
          (6) Graph mining
          (7) Distributed algorithms
34 Università degli Studi di Udine Stefano Mizzaro ING-INF/05 8 (1) Data mining with spatiotemporal aspects
          (2) information retrieval
          (3) Crowdsourcing
          (4) Predictive and prescriptive data analytics
35 Università degli Studi di Catania Orazio Tomarchio ING-INF/05 13 (1) Cloud infrastructures to support big data management
          (2) Big data analytics
          (3) Cloud of things
          (4) Resource orchestration for distributed big data analysis
36 Università “Ca' Foscari” Venezia Salvatore Orlando INF/01 8 (1) Querying and retrieval (efficiency/effectiveness of query processing/ranking for text and pangenomic data)
          (2) Mining and analytics (machine learning on big data scalable pattern extraction)
          (3) Algorithms and data structures for data intensive scalable computing (sketching techniques, pangenomic, mobility, biochemical applications)
          (4) Data modeling (parameter estimation, sensitivity, reverse engineering)
          (5) Parallel data intensive algorithms (GPU-based algorithms)
          (6) Scientific applications of big data (environmental, monitoring, bioinformatics and systems biology)
          (7) Toolkits for big data sources, network science, applications and computational social science

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