Ilaria Bartolini was born on January 9th 1973 in Bologna
(Italy). She got her "Laurea" degree in Computer Science from the
University of Bologna in 1997 and in 2002 she received a PhD in
Electronic an Computer Science Engineering from the DEIS
(Department of Electronics, Computer Sciences and Systems)
department of the same University. From 2005 to 2014 she had a
permanent position as Assistant Professor at the Department of
Computer Sciences and Engineering (DISI), University of Bologna. In
2012 she obtained the national qualification for a position of
Associate Professor. From September 2014 to March 2022, she had a permanent position as Associate Professor at DISI. in April 2017 she obtained the national qualification for a position of Full Professor.
In December 2021 she was appointed for a Full Professor position in Information Processing Systems at DISI (starting 7/3/2022). Since March 2022 she is Full Professor; her research mainly focuses on the smart management of multimedia data and is held
within the MultiMedia Database Group
(http://www-db.deis.unibo.it/MMDBGroup/), where she coordinates the
activities of her students.
In 1998 she spent six months at CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en
Informatica) in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) as a junior researcher,
working with Prof. Martin Kersten. In 2004 she was a visiting
researcher at NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) in Newark,
NJ, USA, working with Prof. Vincent Oria, Prof. Tamer Özsu, and
Prof. Lei Chen. From January- April 2008, from September-November
2010, from September-November 2012, and from November-December 2015 she was invited
Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology (HKUST) working with Prof. Dimitris Papadias and Prof.
Lei Chen.
Her current research mainly focuses on collaborative filtering,
learning of user preferences, similarity search and browsing
techniques for large multimedia data collections based on both the
automatic characterization of the content by means of low-level
features and its semantic; she has developed and spread worldwide
query models based on these characterizations, together with
efficient and scalable query processing algorithms for highly
differentiated users. More recently, the same techniques have been successfully applied to the context of “authorship attribution” and, more in general, within the “cultural heritage” domain, and to the health domain for the automatic detection of diseases. She has national and international
collaborations; in particular with the Telecom Italia Group of
Torino, the Leonardo Finmeccanica Group of Rome, the NJIT of Newark, the University of Waterloo, the HKUST
of Hong Kong, and the National University of Singapore.
She has participated and partecipates to several national and international
research projects, like "Integration, Warehousing, and Mining of
Heterogeneous Data Sources – D2I" (MIUR PRIN Italian project
dealing with the intelligent integration of heterogeneous data
sources), "Patterns for Next-Generation Database Systems - PANDA"
(European Community-funded IST/FET project about the management of
information obtained through Data Mining processes), "Web
Intelligent Search based on DOMain ontologies - WISDOM" (MIUR PRIN
Italian project dealing with semantic queries in peer-to-peer
networks), "Content Organization, Propagation, Evaluation and Reuse
through Active Repositories - CoOPERARE" (MIUR PRIN Italian project
aiming to define theoretical and designing tools to improve the
online cultural heritages management), "GenData 2020" (MIUR PRIN
Italian project aiming to the effective and efficient management of
genetic data so as to foster their accessibility), "Authorship,
varianti, stili: Frontiere dell'analisi testuale tra filologia,
linguistica, matematica e computer science" (FARB Italian project), "Open transPREcision COMPuting - OPRECOMP" (Research and Innovation Action, H2020 FET Proactive Programme of European Community), "European Processor Initiative – EPI" (Horizon 2020 Project), "Distributed Digital Twins for industrial SMEs: a big-data platform – IoTwins" (Innovation Action, H2020 ICT Programme of European Community), and has coordinated the research activities of involved students.
Since 2018 she is the EU ICT Scientific Coordinator of DETECt (Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives) - RIA, Research and Innovation Action, funded by the H2020 "Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies" Work Programme of European Community.
Ilaria Bartolini has published more than 90 referred papers in
major international journals (including ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, IEEE
TPAMI, KAIS, DKE, and MTAP) and conferences (including VLDB, ICDE,
PKDD, and CIKM). She serves as reviewer for the top international
journals in the field of computer science, such as VLDBJ, IEEE
TKDE, IEEE TMM, KAIS, DKE, IS, and MTAP. Ilaria Bartolini is a member of IEEE and ACM
SIGMOD.
Regarding teaching activity, Ilaria Bartolini has been a lecturer
in several courses for the Laurea Degree in Computer Engineering
and post-graduate masters at Alma Graduate School. From 2004 to
2010 she was in charge of the "Information Systems L-A" course for
the Laurea Degree in Computer Engineering of the University of
Bologna. From 2010 to 2020 she was in charge of "Web Technologies T"
course for the Laurea Degree in Computer Engineering of the
University of Bologna; since 2020 she is in charge of "Design of Web Applications T" course for the Laurea Degree in Computer Engineering of the University of Bologna. From 2014 to 2016 she was in charge of the second module of the "Data Mining Techniques and Processes M" course for the Master Degree in Computer Engineering, of the University of Bologna; since 2016 she is in charge of "Multimedia Data Management M" course for the Master Degree in Computer Engineering, of the University of Bologna (from 2020 the course is also part of the education offer of the Master Degrees in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence). Since 2014 she is in charge of the
"Information Technologies for the Representation of Documentary
Data M" course for the Master Degree in Sciences of the Book and
Document; since 2017 she is in charge of "Data Modelling and Multimedia Databases M" course for the Master Degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge, of the University of Bologna.
