About

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano, and Chief Research Officer of motus ml, a spin-off of the same university. I see myself as much an entrepreneur and a consultant as a professor and a researcher.

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, On Stream Reasoning — Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2015. Promoter: Frank van Harmelen.
  • MSc in Computer Science and Engineering — Politecnico di Milano, 2000.

Positions

  • 2020–now — Associate Professor, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano
  • 2023–now — Chief Research Officer, motus ml
  • 2008–2020 — Assistant Professor, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano
  • 2001–2008 — Program Manager of the Semantic Web Practice, CEFRIEL

In numbers

198 publications, including 32 journal papers and 5 books; 56 peer-reviewed conference papers; one granted patent. h-index 40 with 6,825 citations on Google Scholar; h-index 28 with 3,339 citations on Scopus. Seven PhD students supervised since 2008.

Awards

See the awards page for the full list. Among the most recent: motus ml won the Satellite Data Use – Downstream award at BEX 2026; Tenet was best student paper runner-up at IEEE BigData 2024; Chimera won the ISWC 2021 best paper award.

Elsewhere

LinkedIn · DBLP · Google Scholar · ORCID · Scopus

Contact

emanuele.dellavalle@polimi.it