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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Tenured full professors | Research Centre for Knowledge and Data

Diego Calvanese

Diego.Calvanese@unibz.it

+39 0471 016160

BZ B1 5.04
Faculty of Engineering
NOI Techpark - Bruno-Buozzi-Straße 1 - via Bruno Buozzi, 1
39100
Bozen-Bolzano
Office hours
Monday, 17:00 - 19:00
(please check in advance via Teams my actual availability)

Short bio

Diego Calvanese is a full professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz), Italy, where he is the head of the Institute of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. From November 2019 to October 2024, he has also been a Wallenberg Guest Professor at the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University (Sweden). Since 2017, he is the Director of Smart Data Factory, the technology transfer lab for Computer Science at NOI Techpark, Bolzano. He received a Ph.D. from Sapienza Università di Roma in 1996. His research interests include knowledge representation and reasoning, virtual knowledge graphs for data access and integration, description logics, Semantic Web, graph data, and data-aware processes modeling and verification. He has been involved in many research projects in the above areas (including FP6 TONES, FP7 ACSI, FP7 Optique, H2020 INODE, HEU CyclOps), acquiring funding for close to 6.4M Euro. He has authored more than 400 refereed publications, many in the most prestigious international journals and conferences in AI and Databases, with more than 39000 citations and an h-index of 80, according to Google Scholar. He is an editor of the Description Logic Handbook. He has served in more than 200 organization and program committee roles for international events, and he has been an associate editor of AIJ, JAIR, and on the editorial board of JAR. He has been the PC chair of the 34th ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2015), the general chair of the 28th and 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2016, 2021), a PC co-chair of the 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2020), and he will be the PC chair of the 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2026). In 2012-2013 he has been a visiting researcher at TU Vienna as Pauli Fellow of the “Wolfgang Pauli Institute”. He is the originator and a co-founder of the startup Ontopic, which develops AI-based solutions and technologies for data management and integration. He is an ACM Fellow, an EurAI Fellow, and a AAIA Fellow.

Courses

Data Preparation and Integration

73056A · ING-INF/05 · Master in Computing for Data Science · EN

Introduction to Databases

76209 · ING-INF/05 · Bachelor in Computer Science · DE

Research Methods

71061 · INF/01 · PhD Programme in Computer Science · EN

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Main Research Areas

- Artificial Intelligence
- Knowledge Graphs and Virtual Knowledge Graphs
- Ontology based data access and integration
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Semantic technologies
- Graph data management
- Data-aware process modeling and verification

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