Stefano Spaccapietra

Expertise Database modeling, Geographical information, Data integration, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Data semantics Mission Past Teaching:Database Design and Operation, Database EngineeringData Warehousing and Data IntegrationAdvanced DatabasesResearch:Data Modeling, Database Design and Operation, Spatio-Temporal Data Management,Visual Interfaces, Location-Based Services,Data and Ontology Integration, Moving Objects and Trajectories Stefano Spaccapietra is a full professor at EPFL, Switzerland, where he has been heading the database laboratory. He has been in academic positions all along his career. He got his PhD from the University of Paris VI, in 1978, where he first had his master in Computer Science in 1969. At that time, he has been teaching file systems, later turned into teaching database systems. He moved to the University of Burgundy, Dijon, in 1983 to take a professor position at the Institute of Technology. He left Dijon for EPFL in 1988. Prof. Spaccapietra is a Fellow of the IEEE and recipient of the IFIP Silver Core Award and ER Award. He is an ER fellow.He has been Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Data Semantics (LNCS subline), Springer.He is member of the editorial boards of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal (Elsevier), theInternet and Web Information Systems Journal (Kluwer), the Revue Internationale de Géomatique (Hermes), and the Computing Letters Journal (CoLe), VSP/Brill.He was former Chair of the IFIP Working Group 2.6 "Databases" and of the ER Conferences Steering Committee.Current Work MODAP: Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy, a Coordination Action type project funded by EU, FET OPEN, 2009-2012 - http://www.modap.org/content/about_modapMOVE: ICT COST Action IC0903 Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects, 2009-2013 - http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/ict/Actions/IC0903 EPFL-Brzil collaboration project, 2009-2012 Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Yann Dupont, Massimo Gentile, Jun Lou, Yanling Li, Mohamed Meharga, Christelle Vangenot, Pier Donini, Philippe Rochat, Anastasiya Sotnykova, Maria Luisa Damiani, Shijun Yu, Hassina Bounif, Oleksandr Drutskyy Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Zhixian Yan