Biographical profile
Vincenzo Moscato is a Full Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Department of University of Naples Federico II, where he is the owner of “Database Systems” and “Big Data Engineering” teachings for the bachelor and master's degree programs in Computer Engineering, respectively . Currently, he is the leader of PICUS (Pattern and Intelligence Computation for mUltimedia Systems) departmental research group, and the Scientific Coordinator for the University of Naples unit of the Data Science National Laboratory of CINI (National Research Consortium on Computer Science). In addition, he is also the director of CINI's national ITEM laboratory. His current research activities lay in the area of Big Data Analytics, Aritificial Intelligence, Multimedia Social Network Analysis and Multimedia Recommender Systems. In addition, he is the Co-founder of the Academic Spin-off Data JAM srl, and won an International Award by Oracle Corporation for the “Knowledge graphs for next-generation health science applications” project. He was in the Program Committee (PC) of a plethora of international and top-ranked conferences, and the PC chair of a dozen of IEEE/ACM international conferences. He served as reviewer in numerous international journals, including some of the most important journals concerning Multimedia, Knowledge and Data Engineering and Artificial Intelligence topics, and currently he is on the editorial boards of several international journals, including, among others, “Expert System and Applications” , “Intelligent Information Systems” and “IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks and Learning Systems”. Finally, he was an author of more than 200 publications in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. About 80 of such publications are available on top-ranked journals (Q1 and Q2 from SCIMAGO ranking) or included in Proceedings of top-ranked conferences.
Main publications
He has served on the program committees of numerous international conferences and is currently on the editorial boards of several leading journals. Finally, he was the author of about 200 publications in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. As far as teaching is concerned, Vincenzo Moscato has held about fifty university courses, having as main teaching subjects those relating to Data Engineering and Information Systems. He is also co-author of 8 monographs to support teaching, some of which are currently and widely used as textbooks for the teaching of Databases and Fundamentals of Computer Science in various Italian universities.
