Awards

  • 6-2019: his paper on “D2IA: Stream Analytics on User-Defined Event Intervals” won CAiSE’19 best paper award.
  • his paper on “Incremental Reasoning on Streams and Rich Background Knowledge” was nominated for the Best Paper 7 years award of ESWC 2017
  • 10-2016: his paper on “CitySensing: Fusing City Data for Visual Storytelling” wins the best paper award for IEEE MM 2016
  • 9-2013 He is recipient of the IBM Faculty Award 2013 for his research program on “City Data Fusion“
  • 5-2013 his Social Media Analysis demonstrator “TwindexFuorisalone” (powerd by Stream Reasoning)  won the AI mashup Challenge 2013
  • 6-2011 his Augmented Reality Application “Bottari” (powerd by Stream Reasoning) won the Semantic Web Challenge 2011
  • 9-2011 his Semantic Technology demonstrator “Traffic LarKC” won the AI mashup Challenge 2011
  • 6-2008 the Business Plan for his start up “Squiggle” (willing to commercialize Semantic Search Engines) won the StartCup Milano Lombardia
  • 6-2007 his paper on  “Enabling the European Patient Summary Through Triplespaces” won the Best Paper Award at Conferenza Internazionale su Computer-Based Medical Systems
  • 2-2007 he won CEFRIEL’s Excellence Award 2007 for the international visibility gained by CEFRIEL on “Semantic Web” .
  • 11-2006 his paper on ““Flexible Specification of Semantic Services using Web Engineering Methods and Tools” won the Best Paper Award al Workshop Semantic Web and Software Engineering 2006 co-located con ISWC 2006
  • 10-2006 his start up idea “Squiggle” (willing to commercialize Semantic Search Engines) is named in the first 10 best ideas (out of  166) presented at Obiettivo ICT
  • 9-2006 He is recipient of the IBM Faculty Award 2006, together with prof. S. Ceri, for his research program on “Semantic Services using Web Engineering Methods and Tools“
  • 6-2006 his Semantic Web Service demonstrator “SWE-ET” is evaluated as the most complete solution presented at Phase-II of Semantic Web Service Challenge