Fabio Grandi was born in Ferrara (Italy) on December 31, 1964. He received a Laurea degree cum Laude in Electronics Engineering in 1988, and a PhD in Electronics Engineering and Computer Science in 1994, from the University of Bologna (Italy). Starting in 1989, he worked at the IEIIT (formerly CIOC and then CSITE) Centre of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Bologna, in the fields of neural networks and temporal databases. For this work he was initially supported, in 1990 and 1991, by research fellowships from the CNR. In 1993 and 1994, he was an Adjunct Professor of Information Systems at the University of Ferrara and at the University of Bologna (Cesena branch). He had been serving from 1990 to 1998 as an assistant lecturer for several courses of Computer Science Foundations and Information Systems (Information Management and Information Retrieval) at the University of Bologna.
In July 1994, he joined the Department of Electronics, Computer and Systems Science, (DEIS) of the University of Bologna as a Research Associate. His official teaching duties included a Relational DBMS module in A.Y. 1996/97 and an Information System course in A.Y. 1997/98 at the Reggio Emilia campus (Laurea course in Management Engineering). From 1995 to 1998 he was also lecturer and area tutor of Information Systems for the post-graduate degree in Business Administration by the ProFinGest Consortium (Bologna). Since October 2012 is with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI) of the University of Bologna. Since November 1998, he has been an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Bologna.
His teaching duties have included courses of Information Systems, Databases, Computer networks, Internet and Web Technologies and Business Intelligence (for the Laurea, Laurea Specialistica and Laurea Magistrale degrees in Management Engineering, Management Process Engineering and Computer Engineering) in the Faculty of Engineering (which became the School of Engineering and Architecture in 2012 and School of Engineering in 2019) of the University of Bologna. From A.Y. 1998/99 to 2002/03 he has been also doing examinations (of Databases and Information Systems) for the Diploma degrees in Computer Engineering and in Logistics and Production Engineering from the NetTuNo Consortium (distance learning). In A.Y.s 2001/02, 2003/04 and 2004/05 he was also lecturer of Information Systems for the Master degree in Logistics Management jointly organized by the University of Bologna and the Cofimp Consortium (Bologna).
His research activities, formerly at the DEIS and then at the DISI department, are mainly in the context of temporal databases, where he is interested in data models, query languages, storage and access structures, schema evolution and versioning in the context of relational, object-oriented and XML databases. He has also worked on temporal and versioning aspects in the context of the World Wide Web and Semantic Web technologies, mainly for Cultural Heritage, eGovernment and eHealth applications. Other research interests of Fabio Grandi include neural networks and knowledge representation. He had also been working for the CSITE/IEIIT centre from 1999 to 2003 through a CNR research appointment. He has written several (national and international) journal and conference papers, some of which represent the completion of international cooperation works. He has been a member of the TSQL2 Language Design Committee, which designed a temporal extension of the SQL92 standard query language, took part to the initiative leading to the production of a consensual glossary of temporal database concepts, and is a participant to the TimeCenter initiative.
Since 1988, he has been principal investigator of base research projects (formerly ex60%, then RFO) funded by the University of Bologna. In 1990-92, 1993-1995, 1996-1997, 1998-1999, 2001-2002, 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 he took part to national projects co-funded by the Italian University and Research Ministry (formerly ex40%, then PRIN). From 1989 to 2000 he participated to several national research projects funded by the National Research Council (CNR). He also participated as researcher to the Prometheus-PROCOM and CHOROCHRONOS European projects.
He has been several times throughout the years reviewers for the main national and international journals (including ACM TODS, ACM TOIS, ACM TOIT, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TC, D&KE, IS, JAIR, KAIS, VLDBJ, AIIM, JCSS, KnoSys) and conferences (including VLDB, ACM SIGMOD, EDBT, DEXA) covering the database and information system topics, member of the program committee of several international workshops and conferences, chair of the 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2012 editions (and co-chair in 2002) of the ER-affiliated International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management (ECDM) and co-chair of the International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME) in 2015. From its foundation in 2013, he is the editor-in-chief of the Open Journal of Databases (OJDB), open-access journal available at URL http://www.ronpub.com/ojdb, he is member of the editorial board of the International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, online journal freely accessible at URL http://www.iariajournals.org/intelligent_systems/ from 2012, of the open-access journal Electronics (Computer Science & Engineering section) from 2020 and of the Int. J. of Knowledge Science and Engineering (IJKSE) from 2020.
Considering his service activities for international institutions, he was appointed external examiner for Ph.D. Theses in Computer Science submitted to the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona (Spain), to the Flinders University in Adelaide (South Australia) and to the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and served as Committee member for final Ph.D. examination at the Aalborg University (Denmark) and for final M.Phil. examination at UMIST in Manchester (U.K.). In 2007, he was also appointed external referee for an Associate Professor tenure award by the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). In 2012 and 2014 he served as grant application reviewer for the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and in 2020 for the Israel Science Foundation.
As of January 2020, Fabio Grandi is (co-)author of more than 100 international publications (including 35 international journal papers, 1 international book, 43 international conference papers, 27 international book chapters, 6 international encyclopedia entries) and editor of 5 international conference proceedings books. For those indexed in Google Scholar, the number of citations, H-index and i10-index are 3325 (with an average of around 123 per year), 22 and 48, respectively; from 2015, the citation count, H-index and i10-index are 654, 13 and 19, respectively. A notwithstanding impact has had his participation to the TSQL2 language design committee (the TSQL2 book received 933 citations and the TSQL2 specification and tutorial papers jointly received 285 citations according to Google Scholar) and to the glossary of temporal database concepts initiative (the 1994 journal version and the 1998 book version jointly received 593 citations according to Google Scholar). The Scopus database records 75 of his publications, with a total number of 1024 citations and H-index 15, whereas the ISI Web Of Knowledge database records 44 publications thereof, with a total number of 213 citations and H-index 8. In the ResearchGate portal, Fabio Grandi has 132 publications, with a 1699 citation count and an RG-score equal to 24.34.
