Paola Salomoni

Previous Positions

• 2015-2020 Vice Rector for Digital Technologies.
• 2019- Full Professor in Computer Science (SSD INF01), Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI).
• 2018-2020 Member of the scientific committee of the Emilia-Romagna digital agenda.
• september-november 2015 Director of First cycle degree in Computer Science and Engineering (Cesena).
• 2012-2015 School of Science Member, representing the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI).
• 2012-2015 School of Science Joint Committee Member, representing the First cycle degree in Computer Science and Engineering (Cesena).
• 2012-2015 Scientific Committee Member of the Interdepartmental Library of Engineering and Architecture.
• 2012-2015 Member of the Council of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI).
• 2005-2014 Director of C.R.I.A.D (Research and Studies Center for Computer Science applied to Didactical Activities) – Cesena.
• 2005-2010 Technical and Scientific Committee Member for the E-learning Center (CELA).
• 2008-2009 A3 Service management (for the E-learning Center - CELA).
• 2001-2019 Associate Professor (SSD INF/01), Degree in Computer Science (Cesena), Faculty of Science, University of Bologna.
• 1995-2001 Assistant Professor (K05B – Computer Science), Degree in Computer Science (Cesena), Faculty of Science, University of Bologna.

Conferences organization

• W4A 2013 General Chair (ACM International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013).
• W4A 2012 Program Chair (ACM International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Lyon, France, 2012).
• W4A 2011 Web Challenge Chair (ACM International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Hyderabad, India, 2011).
• ACM ITICSE 2006 Program Co-Chair (ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Bologna, 2006).
• ACM ITICSE 2005 Tutorials co-coordinator (ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Lisbona, Portogallo, 2005).
• Technical and Scientific committee member in several International Conferences and Workshops (IEEE and ACM)

 Projects

• 2015-2018 Coordination of the Center for Industrial Research on Information and Communication Technologies (CIRI ICT) research unit in the Integrated Technology for Electric Mobility (TIME) project, funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region through the "Bando per progetti di ricerca industriale strategica rivolti agli ambiti prioritari della Strategia di Specializzazione Intelligente" programme (POR-FESR 2014-2020 ASSE 1 Ricerca e Innovazione Azione 1.2.2 Supporto alla realizzazione di progetti complessi di attività di ricerca e sviluppo su poche aree tematiche di rilievo e all’applicazione di soluzioni tecnologiche funzionali alla realizzazione della strategia di S3).
• 2015-2018 ILOCALAPP Erasmus Project, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Interpreting and Translation.
• 2016-2017 Coordination of the research commissioned by Bucci Automations SPA within the "IGMI ECO-T - Nuovo transfer sostenibile ad elevata produttività e competitività" project, funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region through the "Bando per progetti collaborativi di ricerca e sviluppo delle imprese" programme.
• 2014-2015 RESINT Erasmus Project (Collaborative Reformation of Curricula on Resilience Management with Intelligent Systems in Open Source and Augmented Reality, http://resint.eu/), School of Economics, Management, and Statistics.
• 2014-2015 Technical and Scientific Committee Member of the “di Piazza in Piazza” project http://www.dipiazzainpiazza.it/.
• 2013-2014 E-LOCAL for ALL Erasmus Project (Electronically Learning Other Cultures And Languages for ALL, https://www.academic-projects.eu/elocal), School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Interpreting and Translation.
• 2013 Multimodal Mobility Activity - EIT (European Institute of Innovation & Technology) ICT KIC.
• 2011-2013 E-LOCAL Erasmus Project (Electronically Learning Other Cultures And Languages, https://www.academic-projects.eu/elocal), School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Interpreting and Translation.
• 2010-2012 OERtest (Open Educational Resources test) LifeLong Learning Programme of the European Commission, Faculty of Education Science.
• 2008 Scientific Manager of the ELGA Project (E-learning for E-government and Public Administrations), Alma Graduate School, funded by the Emilia Romagna Region and CNIPA.
• 2008-2009 Coordination of a reserch project to digitalize and tag the Constituent Assembly (Assemblea Costituente) parliamentary records for the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati).
• 2008-2011 Coordination of a research to design and development a tool to support accessibility automatic evaluation and monitoring, for the Emilia Romagna Region.
• 2007-2009 Coordination of the Riuso Project, to recover obsolete computers of the University of Bologna, during the class of “Operating system” (in Cesena). Thanks to this project, 150 computers have been regenerated and donated to primary and secondary schools. The project gave birth to  “Trashware Cesena” (http://www.trashwarecesena.it).
• 2006 Coordination of the CNIPA working group to define e-learning accessibility requirements, Interministerial Commission for the use of ICT to support users with disabilities.
• 2005-2007 SWIMM Project (Interactive and Multimodal Web Services for Mobility), Regional Telecommunication Plan, 1.1 Initiative, Emilia Romagna Region.
• 2002-2003 Coordination of a research to design and develop online didactical materials for the continuing training of teachers, FORTIC – C (Networks and systems administrator), funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.