| Diego Calvanese | |
| Birth Date: | 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Innsbruck, Austria |
| Citizenship: | Italian |
| Fields: | Description Logics, knowledge representation and reasoning in AI, database theory |
| Workplaces: | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Umeå University |
| Alma Mater: | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Thesis Title: | Unrestricted and Finite Model Reasoning in Class-Based Representation Formalisms |
| Thesis Url: | http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ezolin/dl/bib/Unrestricted_and_finite_model_reasoning_in_class-based_representation_formalisms_(Calvanese_PhD_1996).pdf |
| Thesis Year: | 1995 |
| Awards: | ACM Fellow, European Association for Artificial Intelligence Fellow |
| Website: | https://www.inf.unibz.it/~calvanese/ |
Diego Calvanese is an Italian computer scientist and professor at the faculty of computer science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. In addition, since 2019, he is Wallenberg Visiting Professor at the department of computing science, Umeå University.He is well known for his scientific contributions in knowledge representation and reasoning in AI, description logics, and database theory.
Calvanese graduated in electronic engineering (110/110 cum laude) at Sapienza University, Rome, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science.
Diego Calvanese is the initiator and co-founder of Ontopic, a spin-off of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.