The research area I am working on is related to the application of database, artificial intelligence, and semantic technologies to concrete problems in information systems design and maintenance, in data integration, intelligent access, analysis and restructuring of big data. This subject area is quite vast, and involves both theoretical and applicative skills: the appropriate balance between these two aspects can provide a unique added value to the research area. My goal is to let practitioners to apply foundational results, and push theoreticians to understand the complex nature of the real issues.

The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence was founded in 2002 by Enrico Franconi, who is currently its director, and it aims at being an international centre of excellence in basic and applied research on Knowledge Representation and Database technologies and at proposing to selected enterprises innovative ideas and technologies based on the research developed in the centre.