Università Roma Tre
Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione

Via della Vasca Navale 79 
00146 Roma, Italy

Second floor, room 2.15 --- how to reach us

Paolo Atzeni

e-mail: atzeni@dia.uniroma3.it
Tel +39-06-5733.3213  Fax +39-06-5733.3612

Bio sketch

Professor at Università Roma Tre (since 1992, as a founding faculty member).

Previous positions: Professor at Università di Roma La Sapienza (1990-1992), Associate Professor at Università di Napoli (1987-1990), Researcher at IASI-CNR in Rome (1983-1987).

Research stays and visiting appointments at National University of Singapore (February 2008), Microsoft Research (January 2003), Università dell'Aquila (1986-1987), University of Toronto (1984-1985), UCLA (April-May 1981).

Dr. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Università di Roma "La Sapienza" in 1980.

Research interests (past and current): schema and data translation, databases and the Web, data models, database theory, conceptual design, deductive databases, object-oriented databases.

Major appointments

Academic

• Nucleo di Valutazione, Università Roma Tre, member 1998-, vicepresident 2008-
• Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica, Università Roma Tre, president 1994-2000
• Master ITGov, Università Roma Tre, director, 2007-
• Master ETSI, Università Roma Tre, director, 2003-04
• Scuola a Fini Speciali di Informatica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", director 1991-92

Service

• ER 2012, PC CoChair
• VLDB 2010, IIS Track PC Chair
• VLDB Endowment, trustee 2002-, secretary 2005-2009, vicepresident 2010-
• EDBT Association, member of the EB 1994-, president 1996-2004
• WebDB, founder

My recent talks

• 22/11/2011 IBM Research Laboratory, Haifa (Israel), seminar on Schema and Data Translation
• 02/09/2011 Portland State University, Portland, Oregon (USA), seminar on Schema and Data Translation
• 26/08/2011 University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada), seminar on Schema and Data Translation
• 13/05/2011 Caffé Tecnologico (ITI Marconi Rovereto), seminario su Tecnologia di un database server: la gestione della concorrenza (lucidi e video)
• 28/04/2011 Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid (Spain), seminar on Information capacity in Schema and Data Translation
• 18/01/2011 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain), seminar on To structure or not to structure, is that the question?

Recent database seminars at Roma Tre

• 28/09/2011 (h:15:00, sala riunioni, primo piano)
  Letizia Tanca (Politecnico di Milano)
  Problems and Opportunities in Context Based Personalization .
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• 21/09/2011 (h:15:00, sala riunioni, primo piano)
  Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  Data completeness and the currency of data.
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• 19/09/2011 (h:15:00, sala riunioni, primo piano)
  Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  Repairing with quality improving dependencies: existing repair methods, related problems, and hint towards solution.
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• 15/09/2011 (h:15:00, sala riunioni, primo piano)
  Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  A principled approach to data quality: a general survey.

Pictures of my previous and current major experimental projects
Common errors on my name and affiliation

short cv (pdf); short bio (txt)