Education and Training

  • April 2015  
    Ph.D. in computer and systems engineering at University of Calabria – Italy
    • Title of the dissertation: “Social Networks: Influence Maximization and Efficient Graph Management”.
  • October 2013 – August 2014 
    Visiting Scholar at the Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia 
    • Study and analysis under the supervision of Prof. Laks V.S. Lakshmanan of the influence propagation phenomena in online social networks, with particular focus on the competitive and non progressive viral marketing problem.
  • August 2013 
    EDBT Summer School in Big, Linked and Open Data, Aussois, France                     
  • September 2012 
    First Certificate in English, University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations                      
  • August 2012 
    European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, University of Opole, Poland
  • September 2011 
    Laurea degree (M.Sc.) in Computer Engineering at University of Calabria – Italy
    • Title of the dissertation: “Criteria and techniques for termination of the Chase algorithm”.
  • September 2008 
    Laurea degree (B.Sc.) in Computer Engineering at University of Calabria – Italy
    • Title of the dissertation: “ Techniques for database integration: fundamentals and implementations”.