Sandro Luigi Fiore

Member

Open Science Committee

Associate professor

Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science

Via Sommarive, 9 - 38123 Povo

tel. 0461 283594

sandro.fiore[at]unitn [dot] it

Expertise:

Artificial Intelligence

Climate informatics

Cloud computing

Data management systems

Distributed systems

High performance computing

Scientific computing

	Education
	Academic Degrees 2001 – 2004 – Ph.D. in Innovative Materials and Technologies. Thesis: “The GRelC Project: towards the definition of a Grid-DBMS” at the Istituto Superiore Universitario di Formazione Interdisciplinare (ISUFI), University of Lecce, Italy 1996 – 2001 - Master Degree in Computer Engineering (full marks with honors). Thesis on the "Parallelization of a QCD algorithm with Message Passing Interface" at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Lecce, Lecce (Italy). Habilitations Qualification (from 26/07/2018) ASN 2016, Competitive Sector 09/H1, Information Processing Systems, Associate Professor, call n. 1532/2016, by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), Italy
	Research interests
	My research interests focus on data science and learning, scientific data management, big data and artificial intelligence in distributed, cloud and parallel computing environments. In terms of applied research I'm particularly interested in Scientific Computing applied to Climate Change in extreme-scale HPC environments.
	Research work
	Summary of pubblications A comprehensive list of my publications can be found at: DBLP http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/f/Fiore:Sandro.html Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VmTh7jcAAAAJ&hl=en
	Memberships in societies and scientific committees
	Member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society
	Awards and honours
	Earth System Grid Federation Team Award 2017, for the ESGF Dashboard activity in the CMIP5 experiments, December 5-7, 2017, San Francisco, USA. UNIDATA Community Equipment Awards 2011, sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/community/equipaward/index.html#2011 Best Student Paper award, G. Aloisio, M. Cafaro, E. Blasi, M. Mirto, S. Fiore, D. Lezzi, "Web Services for a Biomedical Imaging Portal", Proceedings of ITCC2003, Volume IV, pp- 432-437, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2003.
	Conferences and lectures
	Program Committee Member EGI Conference 2020 (link) International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation 2020 (HPCS 2020) HPC-IODC: HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (link) Workshop/Session/Conference Organizer Virtual Workshop on AI and HPC convergence (https://exdci.eu/events/virtual-workshop-ai-and-hpc-convergence) European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2021 (Session on Big Data and AI in the Earth Sciences)
	Other work
	Scientific Expert in the European Group of FAIR Champions (EGFC) - https://www.fairsfair.eu/advisory-board/sandro-fiore