Tania Cerquitelli


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General information

Cerquitelli-Photo Email:
Researcher unique identifier: ORCID: 0000-0002-9039-6226
Telephone: (+39) 011 090 7178

 

EDUCATION

01/2004-03/2007 Doctorate Research in “Information and System Engineering”. Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. Title: Data mining algorithms for evolving databases   –    Advisor: prof. E. Baralis
09/1997-11/2003 Master of Science in Computer Engineering. Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. Title: Query mediation service for distributed multimedia data: support to the construction and exploitation of multimedia warehouses. Advisor prof. E. Baralis
08/2002-07/2003 Master in Computer Science. Universidad De Las Américas Puebla, Puebla, México. Joint double-degree program between Politecnico di Torino and UDLAP.     Advisors Dr. Vargas-Solar, Dr. Zechinelli-Martini

CURRENT POSITION

17/10/ 2011 – today Assistant Professor at Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

RESEARCH TOPICS

Tania research interests include the design of innovative algorithms to efficiently perform large-scale data mining, which is focused on automatic extraction of useful information hidden in large databases. The main research topics are:

  • Itemset and assocation rule mining at a different abstraction levels
  • Clustering algorithms
  • Cloud-based services
  • Medical data analysis
  • Network traffic analysis
  • Social network analysis
  • Context-aware user and service profiling

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

A list of publications can be found here. A restricted list of database related publications is available at the DBLP Bibliography Server.

PREVIOUS POSITION

15/09/2011 – 15/10/2011 Post-doctoral researcher at Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.
15/05/2009 — 14/05/2011 Post-doctoral researcher at Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.
02/01/2007 – 14/05/2009 Post-doctoral researcher at Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.

CAREER BREAKS

29/05/2013- 02/11/2013 Maternity leave – 5 months.
15/04/2011- 14/09/2011 Maternity leave – 5 months.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

05/2009-04/2011 Fellowship for junior researchers on Information Technology. Department of Control and Computer Engineering. Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.
01/2007 – 04/2009 Research fellow on “Data mining techniques for very large databases”. Department of Control and Computer Engineering. Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
09/2008 – 09/ 2009 Research fellow on “Context-aware User and Service Profiling”. Granted by TELECOM Italia Lab (Tilab), Torino, Italy
01/ 2007 – 12/2008 Research fellow on “Data integration to efficiently provide public services to Italian citizens”. Granted by CSI Piemonte, Torino, Italy
01/ 2006 – 12/2006 Research fellow on “Materialized view management under weak consistency constraints”.Granted by TELECOM Italia Lab (Tilab), Torino, Italy
2004 – 2006 Doctorate Research Fellowship. Granted by Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
07/2003 Best Student in the Master in Computer Sciences. Granted by the Universidad De Las Américas Puebla.

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

2012-2013 12 young talents (master students) for a 2-year multidisciplinary project on the topic   “Banking business customer internationalization”. Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP), Italy
2011 – today 14 Master Students. Politecnico di Torino, Torino. Italy

ORGANISATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2013 Chair for “Special session on Big Data: New Trends and Applications”, in the 17th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems. Genoa, Italy
2009 Chair for “Data management and exploitation track” in the IEEE Mexican International Conference on Computer Science. Mèxico City, Mèxico

COMMISSION OF TRUST

2013-2014 Reviewer for “Futuro in Ricerca” (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research)

Reviewer for international journals:

  • Computer Communications (2013);
  • Information Sciences (2012-2013);
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2012-2013);
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal (2010);
  • Performance Evaluation journal (2010);
  • Computer Networks (2008).

Program committee memberships:

  • IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (2013-2014);
  • European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (2011-2012-2014);

  • IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (2013-2014)

  • International Conference on Algorithms and Architecture for Parallel Processing (2010-2011-2012-2013-2014);
  • International Symposium on Wireless sensor network Technologies and Applications for Smart Space (2012);
  • International Conference on Future Information Technology (2012-2013);
  • International Workshop on Data-intensive Process Management in Large-Scale Sensor Systems (2012-2013-2014);
  • Flexible Database and Information System Technology (2011);
  • Workshop on Mining Complex Patterns (2011);
  • International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from Sensors and Streams (2009);
  • International Workshop on Data and Services Management in Mobile Environments (2008).

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS

Research activities in cooperation with

2009-today Dr. Davide Susta, Dublin City University.
2013-today Dr. Rocca Giovanni and Dr. Eugenio Rondina – TelecomItaliaLAB, Torino, Italy –  Topic: Control Centers for Smart Cities and Big Data for M2M
2013-today Dr. Carlo Alberto  Licciardi and Dr. Giovanni Martini – TelecomItaliaLAB, Torino, Italy – Topic: Social TV
2008-2009 Dr. Marco Marchetti  – TelecomItaliaLAB, Torino, Italy – Topic: Context-aware User and Service Profiling

Participation to research projects

02/2014 – 01/2017 Integrated Project “ONTIC” funded by European Union under the FP7 Grant Agreement n. 619633
02/2013-01/2016 GenData2020 funded by Italian Ministry of Education, University ‘and Research
11/2012 -10/2015  Integrated Project ”mPlane” funded by European Union under the FP7 Grant Agreement n. 318627
03/2012 – 09/2013 Web Intelligence (WEB-BI). Italian nationally funded project. Founded by Polo ICT Piemonte. Patners: Politecnico di Torino, Emisfera Società Cooperativa, IntelliSemantic.
03/2012 – 09/2013 Smart MeterIng for Local Energy Optimization (SMILE-O). Italian nationally funded project. Project founded by Polo ICT Piemonte. Patners: Politecnico di Torino, ISMB, Santer Reply, Vastalla.
2009-2010 “WiFI4Energy”, funded by the Piedmont Region, Italy

 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Professor at Politecnico di Torino  [“Course name” (curriculum in)]

since AA 2012-2013 “Databases” (Computer Engineering);
since AA 2012-2013 “Business Intelligence” (Management Engineering)
AA 2011-2012  “Computer science I”(Computer Engineering)
AA 2011-2012 “Database”, (Master in E-Business and ICT for Management).
AA 2011-2012 “Advanced Database Applications”, (Master in E-Business and ICT for Management).

Invited professor

August 2006 5th Franco-Mexican Summer School on Distributed Systems. Ensenada, Baja California

Teaching assistant at Politecnico di Torino [“Course name” (curriculum in)]

since AA 2006-2007 “Data mining: Concepts and algorithms” (PhD School in Computer Engineering)
since AA 2009-2010 “Database Management Systems” (Computer Engineering)
from AA 2004-2005 to AA 2011-2012 “Databases” (Management Engineering)
from AA 2005-2006 to AA 2009-2010 “Data Warehousing and Data Mining”(Computer Engineering)
from AA 2005-2006 to AA 2010-2011 “Databases” (Master in E-Business and ICT for Management)
from AA 2005-2006 to AA 2010-2011
“Advanced Database Applications”(Master in E-Business and ICT for Management)
from AA 2004-2005 to AA 2009-2010 “Computer networks I” (Computer Engineering)
from AA 2004-2005 to AA 2007-2008 “Database design and tuning”(Computer Engineering)