Ugo Giovanni Erasmo Montanari

SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE

Ugo Montanari

June 2013

BIRTHDATE and PRESENT POSITION
July 17, 1943. Professore Ordinario (Full Professor), Dept of Computer
Science, University of Pisa.

PRESENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Semantics of Concurrency, Process Description and Object Oriented
Languages, Constraint Programming, Graph Rewriting Systems, Coordination
Models, Algebraic and Categorical Models of Concurrency, Models and
Languages for Open Distributed Systems, Network Aware Programming,
Service Oriented Computing.

EDUCATION
Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica (M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering),
December 1966. Libera Docenza in Computer Science, April 1971.

PUBLICATIONS
About 300 papers in international refereed journals and conference
proceedings and three books. He also edited about 20 books and special
issues. Pioneering papers in: picture recognition, graphics, graph
grammars, heuristically guided search, networks of constraints, algebraic
data types, logic unification and true concurrency. He appears in the ISI
list of highly cited authors (http://isihighlycited.com/).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
He is presently member of the Editorial or Advisory Boards of the following
international scientific journals: Fundamenta Informaticae, Mathematical
Structures in Computer Science, New Generation Computing, Theoretical
Computer Science, Computer Science Review. He was member of the Boards of
Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Logic
Programming, Science of Computer Programming and Theory and Practice of
Logic Programming. He is presently member of the steering committees of the
following international conferences: CALCO, CMCS, CONCUR, ICGT, TGC,
WRLA. He was member of the steering committee of CP.

He was coordinator (2004-2011) of the PhD program in Science and Engineering
of Informatics at IMT (Institutions, Market, Technologies) Institute for
Advanced Studies, Lucca, an International Graduate School aiming at
integrating relevance and excellence in research. In the period 2008-2011
he was also vice-director of the same Institution.

He was (at some time or repeatedly) (co-)organizer or member of the program
committees of most international conferences in his areas of research.

RECENT PROJECTS
He has been site leader of European FET Project Sensoria (2005-2009) and of
Italian FIRB Project TOCAI (2006-2010). He is project leader of FET Project
ASCENS (2010-present).