Giannotti Fosca

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Fosca Giannotti is Full Professor at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. Fosca Giannotti is a pioneering scientist in mobility data mining, social network analysis and privacy-preserving data mining. Fosca leads the Pisa KDD Lab - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, a joint research initiative of the University of Pisa and ISTI-CNR, founded in 1994 as one of the earliest research lab on data mining. Fosca's research focus is on social mining from big data: smart cities, human dynamics, social and economic networks, ethics and trust, diffusion of innovations. She is author of more than 300 papers. She has coordinated tens of European projects and industrial collaborations. Fosca is the former coordinator of SoBigData, the European research infrastructure on Big Data Analytics and Social Mining, an ecosystem of ten cutting edge European research centres providing an open platform for interdisciplinary data science and data-driven innovation. Recently she became the recipient of a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant entitled XAI – Science and technology for the explanation of AI decision making.

Topics: 
Contraint-Based Frequent Pattern Mining
Mobility Data Mining
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
Complex Network Analysis and Mining
Data Mining
1989-1990 Visiting Scientist at MCC, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin (USA)
1993 Visiting Scientist at CWI Amsterdam
1995 Visiting Scientist at UCLA
2006 Visiting scientist at UCLA
2006-2009 National Coordinator of the ICT Department of CNR, Area Data Mining and Semantic Web
2009-2010 Visiting scientist at Barabasi Lab (Center for Complex Network Research) of Northeastern University, Boston (USA)
2004 Co-Chair of ECML/PKDD
2008 Program Chair of ICDM
1982 Master Degree in Computer Science at University of Pisa with 110/100 cum laude

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Fosca Giannotti has been interviewed for the Workshops to design a Human Centered AI roadmap in Europe, in the context of the Humane-AI project.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just published the list of researchers funded by their Advanced Grant for year 2019.

Fosca Giannotti, coordinator of SoBigData, has been chosen by KDnuggets as one of the 19 inspiring women who l

On the fourth issue of the ISTI News newsletter you'll find the papers "Clustering individual transactional data for masses of users" by Riccardo Guidotti, Anna Monreale, Mirco Nanni, Fosca Giannotti, Din

On the third issue of the ISTI News newsletter you'll find the paper "MyWay: location prediction via mobility profiling" by Roberto Trasarti, Riccardo Guidotti, Anna Monreale, Fosca Giannotti and "An anal

KDD Lab Workshop 2018

The 2018 edition of the annual KDD Lab Workshop, an opportunity to recap the achievements of last year and to share new directions for the future.

Mettere a disposizione di tutti i dati, in formato aperto, sulle decisioni di investimento pubblico utilizzando il CUP (Codice Unico di Progetto) che da oltre 10 anni identifica le decisioni di investimento pubblico, una chiave univoca in grado di co

Conferenza GARR 2017 - 16 Novembre 2017 - Venezia, Università Ca' foscari

The video, from minute 41, shows Fosca Giannotti's talk at the GARR 2017 Conference.

Carpooling, i.e., the act where two or more travelers share the same car for a common trip, is one of the possibilities brought forward to reduce traffic and its externalities, but experience shows that it is difficult to boost the adoption of car

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