Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea

University of Calabria, Italy

Biography：

Alfredo Cuzzocrea is Professor of Computer Engineering at the DISPES Department – Section: Computer Engineering of University of Calabria, Italy. He also covers the role of Full Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, as holding the Excellence Chair in Computer Engineering. On June 2019, he has been awarded as Full Professor in Computer Engineering at the Department of Computer Science of University of Bourgogne Franche-Comte, Besancon, France. He is habilitated as Full Professor in Computer Engineering and Full Professor in Computer Science by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), Italy, and Full Professor in Computer Science by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), France. Previously, he has been habilitated as Associate Professor in Computer Engineering by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), Italy, Associate Professor in Computer Science by the Aalborg University, Denmark, and Associate Professor in Computer Science by the University of Rome Tre, Italy. He is Head of the Big Data Engineering and Analytics Lab of the University of Calabria, Italy. Previously, he has been Research Fellow of the Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) of the National Research Council (CNR), Italy. On August 2019, he has been awarded as International Senior Research Fellow of the ISITE-BFC Research Excellence Program of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), France. He holds several visiting professor positions worldwide. His current research interests span the following scientific fields: big data, database systems, data mining, data warehousing, and knowledge discovery. He is author or co-author of more than 670 papers in international conferences (including CIKM, MDM, EDBT, SSDBM, PAKDD, DOLAP), international journals (including TKDE, JCSS, IS, FGCS, INS, JMLR) and international books. He is recognized in prestigious international research rankings, such as: (i) Top Scientist in Computer Science and Electronics by Guide2Research, Clifton, NJ, USA; (ii) Top 2% World-Wide Scientist 1996-2020 by METRICS, Stanford, CA, USA; (iii) Top Researcher in Computer Science 2013-2018 by SciVal – Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands; (iv) Top Italian Scientist in Computer Sciences by Virtual Italian Academy, Manchester, UK; (v) 1st World-Wide Scientist 1970-2021 for Research Topic: “OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP)” by Microsoft Academic, Redmond, WA, USA. Similarly, his international bibliometric research indicators are of high values, as recognized by Google Scholar H-Index, Scopus H-Index, ACM Download Metrics, and DBLP Most Prolific Authors. His research results have been awarded largely. He is involved in several national and international research projects (including international research projects founded by the Horizon 2020 EU framework programme for research and innovation), where he covers responsibility roles. He serves as Invited Speaker in several international conferences. He serves as Panel Leader and Moderator in international conferences. His research results have been disseminated and promoted worldwidely in a very large number of international conferences, where he holds community-leading roles, and internationally-renowned universities and research centers, where he holds a very large number of visiting positions. He holds several roles in international scientific societies, steering committees of international conferences, award committees of international conferences, and international research cooperation agreements, also having responsibility roles. He also contributes to the promotion of international research project activities by membering a high number of international research councils and funding agencies. His contribution to serving the international research community is really noticeable. He serves as Springer Fellow Editor. He serves as Elsevier Ambassador. He served as Editor for the Springer series “Communications in Computer and Information Science”, for which now he serves as Funding Editor. He covers a large number of roles in international journals, such as Editor-In-Chief (including Modelling, International Journal of Big Data Engineering and Analytics), Associate Editor (including INS, JPDC, BDR, SNAM, EAAI), Editorial Board Member (including IS, IJIS, JDM), Special Issue Editor (including JCSS, IS, FGCS, INS, BDR). He edited more than 50 international books and conference proceedings. He is member of editorial advisory boards of several international books. He covers a large number of roles in international conferences, such as General Chair (including CIKM, ICDM, EDBT/ICDTW, CSE, WIMS), Program Chair (including ASONAM CSE, ODBASE, DOLAP, DaWaK, ICA3PP, ICEIS), Workshop Chair (including BigData, CCGRID, ICKB), Local Chair (including ICCSA, OTM, WIMS), Liaison Chair (including ICCSA, IDEAL), Publicity Chair (including ICDM, BigData, SDM, APWeb, SSTDM) and Sponsor Chair (including ASONAM). He serves as Session Chair in a large number of international conferences (including CIKM, ICDM, MDM, EBDT, SSDBM, PAKDD, DOLAP). He serves as Review Board Member in a large number of international journals (including TODS, TKDE, TKDD, TOIS, TOIT, TSC, TIST, TSMC, TCC, THMS, TOMM, TETCI). He serves as Review Board Member in a large number of international books. He serves as Program Committee Member in a very large number of international conferences (including VLDB, CIKM, ICDE, EDBT, KDD, ICDM, PKDD, SDM, AAAI, IJCAI, ICDCS). For his international research community services, he has been awarded several times. His academic services are relevant as well. He covers several scientific advising roles for research associates and PhD students. He is member of scientific boards of several PhD programs worldwide. Finally, he covers several institutional roles in university services, including scientific advisor roles for master and bachelor students and teaching positions in national and international universities.