Diego Reforgiato Recupero has been an Associate Professor at the
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of
Cagliari, Italy since December 2015. He is a programmer, software
developer, automation and ICT expert. He holds a double bachelor from
the University of Catania in computer science and a doctoral degree from
the Department of Computer Science of University of Naples Federico II.
He got the National qualification for Computer Science Engineering and
he is a Computer Science Engineer. In 2005 he was awarded a 3 year Post
Doc fellowship with the University of Maryland where in 2006 he won the
Computer World Horizon Award in the USA for the best research project on
OASYS, an opinion analysis system that was commercialized by
SentiMetrix (US company he co-founded). In 2008, he won a Marie Curie
International Grant that allowed him to come back in Italy and was able
to fund a 3 year Post Doc fellowship within the Department of
Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Science Engineering (DIEEI) at the
University of Catania where he won the “Best Researcher Award 2012” for a
project about the development of a green router nearing
commercialization. In the same year he got to the winning podium of the
“Startup Weekend” event held in Catania and was a winner of Telecom
Italia Working Capital Award with a grant of 25k euros for the “Green
Home Gateway” project. In 2012 he co-founded the Italian company R2M
Solution s.r.l. In 2013 he won a Post Doctoral Researcher position
within the Semantic Technology Laboratory (STLAB) of the Institute of
Cognitive Science and Technologies (ISTC) of the National Research
Council (CNR) where he worked on Semantic Web and Linked Open Data; he
is still an associated researcher at STLAB where he collaborates. In
2013 he published a paper on Science related to the energy efficiency
techniques in Internet. Besides SentiMetrix inc. (US company founded in
2007) and R2M Solution s.r.l. (Italian company founded in 2012), he
co-founded R2M Solution ltd. (UK company founded in 2014), La Zenia
s.r.l. (Italian company founded in 2014 for management of sports and recreational events)
and B-UP (Italian company founded in 2016 together with colleagues of
CNR). He serves on the board of directors for R2M Solution and
SentiMetrix. He is a patent co-owner in the field of data mining and
sentiment analysis (20100023311). He has industrial and consulting
experiences in several national and international industries. He has
research experience across a wide array of industrial, Italian, FP7 and
H2020 research projects most recently in the fields of ICT, energy
saving in telecommunication networks, robotics and semantic web. |