Wilma Penzo received her Laurea degree in Computer Science with
honours from the University of Bologna in 1993 and the PhD degree
in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the same University in
1997.
Since 1996, she has been a Research Associate (SSD ING-INF/05
- Information processing systems) at the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), School of
Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna.
Her scientific activity is set in the area of information and
knowledge management, with particular interest in the study of
techniques for the effective and efficient retrieval of information
in large data collections, which are characterized by aspects such
as distribution, heterogeneity in structural representation,
ambiguity in the semantics of contents. Recent research interests
include the interoperability of heterogeneous graph-modeled data,
by means of flexible query processing models. A further research
theme concerns Business Intelligence distributed systems, where she
studies collaborative aspects for the retrieval of heterogeneous
information, and data stream management systems, with particular
attention to efficient data storage and to real-time query
processing. She also dealt with complex similarity and fuzzy query
processing on semistructured and multimedia data, and indexing
methods for graph-based data such as XML.
In these fields, since 1996 she has participated in several
research projects (MURST, MIUR, FIRB, CNR, Industria 2015) among
which “Interdata” (distributed information extraction in the WWW) ,
“X-DL” (efficient and effective retrieval of XML documents from
large digital libraries), “WISDOM” (semantic search of information
in peer-to-peer networks), “NeP4B” (advanced semantic services for
the cooperation in a peer-to-peer network), “Pegasus”
(infotelematic systems for the management of a sustainable and
secure mobility). In 1999 she has coordinated a research group in
the project “SQUID” (similarity queries and indexing of multimedia
data).
Since 1999 to 2003 she has cooperated with the CNR research
centres CSITE and IEIIT of Bologna, where she has been charged a
research about the integration of heterogeneous information in
database systems and the World Wide Web as well as the study of
techniques for the management of similarity queries on
semistructured data.
Since 2005 she has been a member of the ISGroup reseach group at
the Department of Physical, Computer and Mathematical Sciences of
the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Until 2012 she
collaborated with the members of the same research group at the
Department of Information Engineering of the University of Modena
and Reggio Emilia. The research themes are about query processing,
query routing, and semantic clustering in peer-to-peer networks,
data storage and information retrieval from stream data sources,
semantic interoperability of heterogeneous and distributed
data.
Since 2009 she has been a Research Associate at the CNR
Institute of Electronics and Information and Telecommunications
Engineering (IEIIT), in Bologna, as a collaborator in projects
about Infomobility.
She has published in several major journals in the field (such
as IEEE TKDE, Information Systems, and IEEE Internet Computing) and
in proceedings of top conferences. She served as reviewer for
several prestigious journals and major international conferences in
the database field. She has been organizer of international
workshops in the field of query processing on graph-modeled data
and she has been a member of international program
committees.
Since 1996 Wilma Penzo has been teaching at the Engineering
Faculty and the School of Engineering and Architecture of the
University of Bologna. She has held courses of Fundamentals
of Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Information Systems, and
Computer Networks. Wilma Penzo has also been teaching at several
University Master programmes and training courses at various
institutions such as the Alma Graduate School, the Scuola Superiore
per la Pubblica Amministrazione, the Profingest Consortium, the
COFIMP Consortium in Bologna, where she has held many courses on
themes pertaining to the information systems.
