Vincenzo Pallotta

Current

• Research Faculty and Professor at Webster University
• Chargé de cours at University of Geneva

Past

• Professor at European University
• Research Associate and lecturer at University of Fribourg
• Visiting Scholar at University of Stanford

• Researcher and Lecturer at EPFL
• Visiting Scholar at International Computer Science Institute - Berkeley
• Senior Researcher at IM2 Project
• Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley
• Research Assistant and Lecturer at EPFL
• Visiting Scholar at Università di Venezia
• Consultant at University of Pisa
• Consultant at University of Pisa
• Consultant and Technical Instructor at Studio Proteo Snc.
• Analyst-Programmer and System Manager at SELCODATA Srl.
• Analys, Developper and System Manager at Computime SE, Srl.
• Technician at COMPUTRONIC Snc.

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Education

• IT Training Academy
• Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg
• IT Training Academy

• Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• Università di Pisa
• Linköpings universitet

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Recommended

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Industry

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Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• Flickr

Vincenzo Pallotta’s Summary

I am broadly interested in Information and Communication Technology and I have been active in this area since 1985.

Started as a freelance consultant with the development of business applications for personal productivity and small enterprises. Then I evolved into more sophisticated businesses in computing technology.

After six years of IT consulting, I came back to study and I earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science.

After that, I re-oriented my profession towards academy and research, but without stopping to look at ICT in real markets.

My research interests span from theoretical computer science (Programming Theory, Computational Logics, Formal Methods, and Artificial Intelligence) to more applied fields such as Data Mining, Computational Linguistics, Human-Computer Interaction, Web, Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing.

I consider myself a good teacher and I started this activity very early in 1987 in adult education. At university, I have been charged of several courses in computer science and been invited as guest lecturer in conferences tutorials.

Currently, I work as a Research Coordinator and Faculty at the Webster University in Geneva. I am (still) studying to get the (hopefully last) academic degree: Habilitation.

Vincenzo Pallotta’s Specialties:

Information & Communication Technology, Human-Language Technology, Information Systems, Digital Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, Ubiquitous Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Usability Engineering, Information Retrieval, Web Search Engines, IT Services Management, Knowledge Management, Semantic Web, Computational Logics, Group Dynamics, Training and Education, e-learning.

Vincenzo Pallotta’s Experience

• Research Faculty and Professor

  Webster University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  I teach several classes in the Computer Science and Information Management program.
  I am a research coordinator in the field of computational linguistics.

• Chargé de cours

  University of Geneva

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Research in the field of Services Science and in particular on Social Neworking Services, Mobile Information Systems and Pervasive Services.

• Professor

  European University

  (Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

  January 2009 — June 2009 (6 months)

  Teaching Computer-related courses in Geneva and Montreux.

• Research Associate and lecturer

  University of Fribourg

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  November 2005 — November 2008 (3 years 1 month)

  I joined the PAI group (Pervasive and Artificial Intelligence) in November 2005. I am currently a senior research fellow and I am a teaching assistant in Ubiquitous Computing.
  Since June 2006 I am principal investigator in a Swiss national research uMove on new interaction paradigms based on motion-awareness (http://www.umove.ch).
  Details on the group's research are available at: http://diuf.unifr.ch/pai/
  The focus of my research is currently on Ubiquitous Computing, Multi-Agent Systems, Pervasive Collaboration, Human-Computer Interaction.

• Visiting Scholar

  University of Stanford

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2005 — November 2005 (4 months)

  Visiting the (CSLI) Computational Semantics Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information.

• Researcher and Lecturer

  EPFL

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; EPFL; Higher Education industry)

  August 2002 — October 2005 (3 years 3 months)

  From 2002 to 2004 I have been post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Artificial Intelligence laboratory of the School of Information and Communication Science. During this period I have been:
  
  - Member of the European FP5 project INSPIRE on Interaction through cpeech with consumer appliances.
  
  - Member of the Swiss NCCR IM2 on Interactive Multimodal Information Management.
  
  In 2005 I've been member of the Global Computing Center headed by Martin Rajman as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer.

• Visiting Scholar

  International Computer Science Institute - Berkeley

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; ICSI; Research industry)

  January 2004 — March 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  I spent one year at ICSI as a visiting researcher in the framework of the IM2 exchange program. I worked on the design of an ontology for the description of the dynamics of meetings. In particular I focused on meeting discussions oriented towards decision making and conflict resolution. The argumentative modeling of meeting discussions is particularly useful in Question-Answering and Summarization of meetings.

• Senior Researcher

  IM2 Project

  (Higher Education industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years )

• Visiting Scholar

  University of California, Berkeley

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; UCB; Higher Education industry)

  January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year )

  I have been visiting the Department of Linguistics of UC Berkeley. Mainly I joined several classes and graduate courses in Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis and Philosophy of Language. Remarkably, I met Prof. Charles Fillmore (my supervisor), Prof. George Lakoff and Prof. John Searle.

• Research Assistant and Lecturer

  EPFL

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; EPFL; Higher Education industry)

  August 1998 — August 2002 (4 years 1 month)

  I joined EPFL as a Ph.D. student and I have been member of the Information and Communication Science Faculty for six years.
  
  I carried out my Ph.D. thesis work at the Theoretical Computer Science Laboratory headed by Prof. Giovanni Coray and I earned the Ph.D. degree in 2002.
  
  I have been member of the MEDIA (Document Engineering) research group.
  
  During these years I've been also involved in teaching at undegraduate level:
  - Foundations of Programming Languages,
  - Multimedia Document Engineering,
  - Natural Language Processing
  
  and post-graduate level:
  - Language and Speech Engineering.

• Visiting Scholar

  Università di Venezia

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; unive; Higher Education industry)

  February 2002 — February 2002 (1 month)

  Collaboration with Prof. Rodolfo Delmonte on Robust Deep Linguistic Parsing with GETARUN.

• Consultant

  University of Pisa

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; UNIPI; Research industry)

  January 1998 — July 1998 (7 months)

  - Computer Science Department, research group on Knowledge Discovery and Deductive Databases (Prof. Turini and Prof. Pedreschi).
  - Collaborated with CNR-CNUCE in the DATASIFT project.

• Consultant

  University of Pisa

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; unipi; Higher Education industry)

  January 1995 — December 1997 (3 years )

  Collaboration with CISIAU (Interfaculty Center for Information Services in the Humanities Area) and Faculty of Political Science.
  
  Teaching assistantship in a course on "Document Informatics" (Informatica Documentale) given by Prof. Maria Simi and Prof. Silvano Antonelli.
  
  Involved in a research project financed by "Commissione Rettorale per la Storia dell'Università" (Academic Senate Committee for the History of University) on the Statistical Processing of Historical Data of the University of Pisa. Co-author together with Dott. Danilo Barsanti, of a related book, published by the Pisa University Press (ETS).

• Consultant and Technical Instructor

  Studio Proteo Snc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1989 — August 1991 (2 years )

  Taught courses for Professional Certification (“formazione professionale”) in office automation, programming (COBOL, Clipper, C) and system management (OS370, Unix).
  
  Responsible of the design, development, and management of several business management applications in Clipper in Novell network environment.

• Analyst-Programmer and System Manager

  SELCODATA Srl.

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 1988 — September 1989 (1 year 7 months)

  IBM Agent for PC and Mini-systems (AS-400)
  
  Development of enterprise business applications (COBOL, Clipper, C), System Management (MS-DOS, Unix/Xenix) and Database Management (Oracle, DB2, DbaseIV).

• Analys, Developper and System Manager

  Computime SE, Srl.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1987 — December 1987 (4 months)

  Computime SE was a subsidiary of large Rome-based company (COMPUTIME) which was a Apple computer retailers and solution provider in Desktop Publishing, Office Automation and Design.
  I was in charge of the technical support and training for the Computime SE Apple-based solutions.

• Technician

  COMPUTRONIC Snc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1987 — August 1987 (8 months)

  Technical support with Personal Computers and related software
  Development of personal business applications.

Vincenzo Pallotta’s Education

• IT Training Academy

  PMI PMP certification , Project Management , 2009 — 2010 (expected)

  Activities and Societies:

  Module of education program for "Direction et Gestion de Projet en Informatique" (DGPI)

• Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg

  Habilitation , Computer Science , 2005 — 2010 (expected)

• IT Training Academy

  PRINCE2 Foundation certification , Project Management , 2009 — 2009

  Activities and Societies:

  Module of education program in "Direction et Gestion de Projet Informatique" DGPI.

• Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

  Certificate , Venture Challenge 2007 , 2007 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Member of the group HelvaLab (became Cellness).

• Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

  Ph.D. , Computer Science , 1998 — 2002

  Thesis entitled: "Cognitive Language Engineering: Towards Robust Human-Computer Interaction" available on-line at:
  http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=2630

• Università di Pisa

  Laurea , Information (Computer) Science , 1991 — 1997

  M.Sc. Thesis in Computer Science entitled "Integrazione della Programmazione Logica e della Logica dei Fluenti" supervised by Prof. Franco Turini, Department of Computer Science, Univerisity of Pisa. Available on line at:
  http://www.di.unipi.it/~pallotta/tesi.ps.gz

• Linköpings universitet

  ERASMUS , Computer Science , 1994 — 1994

  ERASMUS program

Additional Information

Vincenzo Pallotta’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• Flickr

Vincenzo Pallotta’s Interests:

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Language Technology, Ubiquitous Computing, Internet, Group Dynamics, Philosohpy of Mind.

Vincenzo Pallotta’s Groups:

Association of Computational Linguistics, LIFT Conference, NordiCHI

•    Swiss Web 2.0
•    Global Foresight
•    EPFL Alumni
•    ACM SIGCHI
•    The Language Technology Group
•    Webster University School of Business and Technology
•    venturelab
•    Alumni Università di Pisa
•    Advanced Scientific Communities (TM)
•    Natural Language Processing People
•    Artificial Intelligence Researchers, Faculty + Professionals
•    Digital_Nomads
•    Computational Models of Natural Argument
•    Web 3.0 Applications
•    University of Fribourg
•    venice sessions
•    Web of Things
•    IM2 - Interactive Multimodal Information Management
•    Gbanga
•    PRINCE2 in Western Switzerland
•    TransFICS Knowledge and Innovation Community

Vincenzo Pallotta’s Honors:

Who's who International 2002-2006
Performance prize at EPFL, 2002
Laurea summa cum laude, University of Pisa, 1997
IBM Italia foundation Top 50 best undergraduate students, 1996
ERASMUS grant, 1994

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