Stefano Ceri (born 14 February 1955) is an Italian

computer engineer Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers ...

and professor of

database management In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases span ...

Politecnico di Milano The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 186 ...

. He has been visiting professor at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

between 1983 and 1990, and received the

ACM ACM or A.C.M. may refer to: Aviation * AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile * Air chief marshal * Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting * Air cycle machine * Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia Computing * ...

SIGMOD Edward Codd Innovations Award in 2013.

Career

Stanford University

He was a visiting professor at

in the 1980s and 1990s.

Scientific Research

Some of the research projects he has been responsible of at

include W3I3: "''Web-Based Intelligent Information Infrastructures''" (1998–2000), WebSI: "''Data Centric Web Services Integrator''" (2002–2004), SeCo
Search Computing
(2008–2013), GenData2020: Data-Centric Genomic Computing (2013–2016), and GeCo: Genomic Computing (2016-2021). He received two

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

Advanced Grants, in 2008 for the Search Computing project and in 2016 for the Genomic Computing project. His research interests are focused on: * extending

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases sp ...

technologies for incorporating data distribution, deductive rules, active rules, and query languages for

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...

* methods and languages for the specification of data-intensive Web sites, such as

WebML WebML (Web Modeling Language) is a visual notation and a methodology for designing complex data-intensive Web applications. It provides graphical, yet formal, specifications, embodied in a complete design process, which can be assisted by visual d ...

* search computing and crowd searching methods * genomic computing

WebML inventor

He is one of the inventors of

, a modeling language for the conceptual design of web applications (US Patent 6,591,271, July 2003) and he is one of the co-founders o
WebRatio
a spinoff of

whose mission is to promote and commercialize development tools based on

and

model-driven development Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software development methodology that focuses on creating and exploiting domain models, which are conceptual models of all the topics related to a specific problem. Hence, it highlights and aims at abstract re ...

in general (spanning

Interaction Flow Modeling Language The Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) is a standardized modeling language in the field of software engineering. IFML includes a set of graphic notations to create visual models of user interactions and front-end behavior in software system ...

BPMN Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for specifying business processes in a business process model. Originally developed by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), BPMN has been maintained by the Ob ...

, and

Unified Modeling Language The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. The creation of UML was originally m ...

Alta Scuola Politecnica

Until November 2013, he was director o
Alta Scuola Politecnica

Awards

* 1991 - VLDB Best Paper Award in 1991. * 2000 - VLDB Test of Time Award in 2000. * 2013 - ACM SIGMOD Edward F. Codd Innovations Award: During his ACM-Sigmod talk, he explained the "Seven Golden Rules for being Successful in Research". They are: (1) Invest in education, (2) Choose the right co-workers, (3) Take context into account when choosing your research agenda, (4) Write!, (5) Diversify your research, (6) Learn from other disciplines, (7) Don't always work.

Membership

He is member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

. In 2014 he became ACM

fellow A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements. Within the context of higher education ...

of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

Books

*''Distributed Databases: Principles and Systems'' (McGraw-Hill, 1984) *''Logic Programming and Databases'' (Springer-Verlag, 1990) *''Conceptual Database Design: an Entity-Relationship Approach'' (Benjamin-Cummings, 1992) *''Active Database Systems'' (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1995) *''Advanced Database Systems'' (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1997) *''The Art and Craft of Computing'' (Addison-Wesley, 1997) *''Designing Database Applications with Objects and Rules: the IDEA Methodology'' (Addison-Wesley, 1997) *''Database Systems: Concepts, Languages, and Architecture'' (McGraw-Hill, 1999) *''Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications'' (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002) *''Web Information Retrieval'' (Springer-Verlag, 2013) *''Creating Innovation Leaders'' (Springer-Verlag, 2015)

Patents

* ''Model for the definition of world wide web sites and method for their design and verification'' (US 6,591,271, July 2003, with P. Fraternali) * ''Method for extracting, merging and ranking search engine results'' (US 8,180,768, May 2013, with D. Braga, M. Brambilla, A. Campi, E. Della Valle, P. Fraternali, D. Martinenghi, M. Tagliasacchi) * ''Method and system of management of queries for crowd searching'' (US 8,825,701 B2, July 2014, with A. Bozzon, M. Brambilla)

Didactic Projects

* He is interested in new multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches in academic education (see the book Creating Innovation Leaders). * He is responsible for Politecnico di Milano of Data-Shack,DataShack Harvard-Politecnico di Milano Joint Program on Data Science for Sharing Economy

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, accessed 2016-1-2. an experimental didactic project jointly developed with the Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) at

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is the engineering school within Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, offering degrees in engineering and applied sciences to graduate students admitted ...

Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

References

Links

Stefano Ceri Home pageSearch Computing projectCrowdsearcher projectGenomic Computing project
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