Anna Monreale

GENERAL: Anna Monreale was born on 15 January 1979 in Erice (Trapani), she is married and has two children.
CURRENT POSITION:
-Assistant Professor of Computer Science (RTD-B since Dec. 2017, Univ. Pisa), member of KDD Lab–Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory - http://kdd.isti.cnr.it - (since 2008),
-Member of the Committee of PhD in Data Science of Univ. Pisa, SNS, Scuola Sup. Sant’Anna, IMT di Lucca and CNR(since 2017),
-Vice-Director of the Master program on Big Data Analytics and Social Mining of Univ. Pisa (since 2014) http://masterbigdata.it/
SCIENTIFIC HABILITATIONS
-Italian habilitation as Associate Professor in 01/B1-INFORMATICA (10/04/2017–10/04/2023)
-Italian habilitation as Associate Professor in 09/H1-SISTEMI DI ELABORAZIONE DELLE INFORMAZIONI (
04/04/2017–04/04/2023)
POSITIONS HELD:
-Assistant Professor of Computer Science (RTD-A May 2014-Nov. 2017) at the Dip. di Informatica, Università di Pisa
-Member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group “European Open Science Cloud” (Sept. 2015- Feb. 2017)
-Post Doctoral Position at Dep. of Computer Science, Univ. Pisa. Research Grant on the study and definition of privacy-preserving data mining techniques based on constraints (2012-2014)
-Visiting researcher at People in Motion Lab of the Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Dep., Univ. New Brunswick, Canada (July 2014)
-Post Doctoral Position at Dep. of Computer Science, University of Pisa. Research Grant on the study and definition of privacy-preserving frameworks for monitoring of human activity in distributed environments (2011-2012)
-Research Associate at KDD Lab-ISTI CNR, Pisa since 2008
-Visiting researcher at Dep. of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA (April-July 2010)
-Visiting researcher at the group of Prof. Yucel Saygin at Univ. of Sabanci, Turkey (Oct. 2010)
EDUCATION: Master Degree in Computer Science (2007, Univ. Pisa, summa cum laude); PhD in Computer Science (21 June 2011, Univ. Pisa).
AWARDS:
-DTL 2015 Grant: for the project proposal Privacy-aware ecosystem for data sharing submitted to the program “Data Transparency Lab 2015”
-Privacy by Design Ambassador 2014: title of Privacy by Design Ambassador got from Ann Cavoukian, Three-term Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and inventor of “Privacy by Design”, for the research results obtained in the context of privacy by design in data mining.
-ISTI Young Researcher Award 2013: award assigned to the best youngh researchers of ISTI-CNR.
-Finalist of the Cor Baayen Award 2013
RECENT EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL PROJECTS: A.M. has been involved in different EU and Italian Funded projects:
-GeoPKDD-Geographic Privacy-aware Knowledge Discovery and Delivery (2005-2009, EU Project FP6 FET- Open www.geopkdd.eu)
-ANONIMO-Metodi informatici e legali per la protezione della privacy e l’anonimato (2008-2010, Project of National Interest of the Italian Ministry of Research) where
-MODAP-Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy (2009-2012, FET Open Coordination Action)
-LIFT–Using Local Inference in Massively Distributed Systems (2009-2013, http://lift-eu.org/)
-ENFORCE-Computer science and legal method for enforcing the personal rights of non-discrimination and privacy in ICT systems (2010-2013, Project of National Interest of the Italian Ministry of Research).
-ICON–Inductive Constraint Programming (2012-2014, EU Project FP7-ICT FET Open , http://www.icon-fet.eu/.
-PETRA-Personal Transport Advisor: an integrated platform of mobility patterns for Smart Cities to enable demand-adaptive transportation systems (2013-2016, EU Project FP7, http://www.petraproject.eu/)
-SOBIGDATA.eu - Research Infrastructure on Social Mining and Big Data Analytics ((2015-2019, H2020 EU Project http://www.sobigdata.eu)
A.M has participated in some industrial collaborations, including with Siemens, Toyota, KDDI, WIND, TELECOM ITALIA, COOP, OCTO.