Giuseppe De Giacomo Explained

Giuseppe De Giacomo
Birth Date:8 August 1965
Birth Place:Italy
Workplaces:Oxford University
Sapienza University
Thesis Title:Decidability of ClassBased Knowledge Representation Formalisms
Thesis Url:http://www.diag.uniroma1.it/degiacom/papers/1995/Degi95phd-thesis.pdf
Thesis Year:1995
Doctoral Advisor:Maurizio Lenzerini
Fields:Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Representation

Giuseppe De Giacomo (born 8 August 1965) is an Italian computer scientist. He is a Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK),[1] and Professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy).[2] He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Green Templeton College.

Education

De Giacomo obtained his master's degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991 at Sapienza University of Rome. After that, in 1995,[3] he earned his PhD from the same institution, under the supervision of Maurizio Lenzerini.[4]

Career and research

After the PhD, De Giacomo visited Yoav Shoham at Stanford University and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto in the Cognitive Robotics research group,[5] working with Hector Levesque and Ray Reiter.De Giacomo returned to Sapienza University as a faculty member in 1998.[6]

De Giacomo's research interests concern theoretical, methodological, and applicative aspects ofdifferent areas of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science.He is internationally renowned for his significant contributions to the field of knowledge representation and reasoning, situation calculus, generalized forms of automated planning, temporal logics, verification and synthesis of KR-based systems, and business process modeling.De Giacomo has co-authored over 300 publications in top scientific journals and conference proceedings.[7] His research was seminal to the area of description logics and ontologies for the introduction of a tractable fragment of description logics called DL-Lite.

De Giacomo served as associate program chair at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in 2021,[8] as program chair for the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) in 2020,[9] and as program chair for the International Conferenceon Principles of KnowledgeRepresentation and Reasoning (KR) in 2014.[10]

Awards and honors

In 2019, De Giacomo was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project titled White-Box Self-Programming Mechanisms (WhiteMech) (2019-2024).[11] [12]

In 2016, De Giacomo was elected an AAAI Fellow "for significantcontributions to the field of knowledge representation and reasoning, and applications to dataintegration, ontologies, planning, and process synthesis and verification".He was also elected an ACM Fellow "for contributions to description logics, data management, and verification of data-driven processes" in 2015, and an EurAI Fellow in 2012.

He and his co-authors won the Classic Paper Award from the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2021,[13] and the first 10-year Test-of-Time Award from the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing in 2013.[14] [15]

Entrepreneurial activities

De Giacomo is the co-founder and scientific advisor of OBDA systems,[16] an innovation startup of Sapienza University of Rome, and a company of the Almawave Group.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Giuseppe De Giacomo. Department of Computer Science.
  2. Web site: Giuseppe De Giacomo | Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica e gestionale. www.diag.uniroma1.it.
  3. Web site: Giuseppe De Giacomo's personal website - Papers.
  4. Web site: PhD students | Maurizio Lenzerini's home page. www.diag.uniroma1.it.
  5. Web site: Cognitive Robotics » People.
  6. Web site: De Giacomo | Sapienza - Università di Roma. www.cis.uniroma1.it.
  7. Web site: Giuseppe De Giacomo's DBLP page.
  8. Web site: IJCAI-21 Program Committee – IJCAI 2021.
  9. Web site: Chairs – Digital Ecai 2020.
  10. Web site: KR 2014 - 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at.
  11. Web site: White-Box Self-Programming Mechanisms | WhiteMech Project | Fact Sheet | H2020. CORDIS | European Commission.
  12. Web site: WhiteMech - Home. whitemech.github.io.
  13. Web site: AAAI Classic Paper Award. AAAI.
  14. Web site: ICSOC 10th Anniversary, most influential paper published from 2003 to 2012 at th 11th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing ICSOC 2013 for the paper "Automatic Composition of E-services That Export Their Behavior" published at ICSOC 2003. iris.uniroma1.it.
  15. ICSOC 2013 Award ceremony for the most influential paper 2003 - 2012 . 2013-12-05 . Massimo Mecella . 2024-07-17 . YouTube.
  16. Web site: Home - OBDA Systems. obdm.obdasystems.com.