About the Author
Marco Brambilla is full professor at Politecnico di Milano. He is active in research and innovation, both at the industrial and academic levels. His research interests include data science, software modeling languages and design patterns, crowdsourcing, social media monitoring, and big data analysis. He is the founder of the startup Fluxedo, focusing on social media analysis and Social engagement, and of the company WebRatio, devoted to software modeling tools for Web, Mobile, and Business Process based software applications. He is the author of various international books and research articles in journals and conferences, with over 200 papers. He was awarded various best paper prizes and gave keynotes and speeches at many conferences and organisations. He is the main author of the OMG standard IFML. He participated in several European and international research projects. He has been reviewer of FP7 projects and evaluator of EU FP7 proposals, as well as of national and local government funding programmes throughout Europe. He has been PC chair of ICWE 2008, Berlin. He has been a PC member of several conferences and workshops, he organized several workshops and conference tracks so far, and he has been a reviewer for many scientific journals. He is the editor of Journal of Web Engineering and associate editor of various journals. "Born in 1976, I got my M.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2001 (100/100 cum laude) and my Ph.D. in Information Engineering (outstanding work, mark A) in October 2005, with a thesis on modeling of service- and workflow- based web applications.I have been visiting researcher at Cisco Systems (San Josè, CA, USA) in 2001. The purpose of my stay was to validate the WebML methodology and language in a large scale industrial setting. I've been visiting researcher at UCSD (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA) in 2004, where I worked with prof. Vianu, Deutsch, Papakonstantinou. There, I had the opportunity of exploring the world of venture capitals and research exploitation in the US. I have been visiting professor at Dauphine University, Paris.I've worked on 5 European research projects, as well as with several companies for research exploitation and technology transfer (Acer, UniCredit, local govt. agencies, and many SMEs). I'm shareholder of the spin-off WebRatio and I'm interacting with several US companies for consultancy, standardization, and R&D activities.I have worked on various mainstream research topics (IFML, WebML, Search Computing, and Data Science) and I also had the opportunity of opening new research lines of my own.Within these research lines, I have dealt with several major companies, including Cisco, Microsoft-FAST, Yahoo! Research, Google Research, XEROX, HP Labs for joint research activities.I think that all those opportunities shaped my attitude towards the relation between research and applications. I'm involved in intensive publication, dissemination and research exploitation activities, as demonstrated by: more than 250 research papers (13 on journals, 2 books); a public blog (www.marco-brambilla.com/blog), and active presence in online research and technology communities; and involvement with WebRatio, Fluxedo, OMG, and industrial innovation projects."
