< of the [Dept of Computer Science](https://www.uniba.it/ricerca/dipartimenti/informatica),
[University of Bari "Aldo Moro"](https://www.uniba.it)
<br/>_Born_: 4th May 1976 in Rosario (Argentina)
<br/>_Citizenship_: Italian-Argentinian
<br/>_Education_: MS and __PhD__ in __[Computer Science](http://www.di.uniroma1.it/) at [Sapienza, University of Rome](http://www.uniroma1.it/)__,
__[Fellow of HEA](https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/individuals/fellowship/fellow)__ ([UKPSF](https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/guidance/teaching-and-learning/ukpsf))
<br/>_Email_: __<miguel.ceriani@gmail.com>__, <miguel.ceriani@uniba.it> (academic)
<br/>_Web_:
__[miguel76 at GitHub](https://github.com/miguel76)__, [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-ceriani-85979410),
[Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=eiXxqYAAAAAJ), [dblp](http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Ceriani:Miguel)
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#### ...as a researcher
After 2 years in bioinformatics,
since 2010 I have been researching __Human Computer Interaction for the Web of Data__,
__Visual and Declarative Languages for Linked Data__, __Ontology Design__,
and __Integration of Web Services__,
aiming to lower the barriers for adoption Semantic Web technologies.
I have been working in both the
[Department of Computer Science](http://www.di.uniroma1.it/)
and the [Department of Computer Engineering](http://www.diag.uniroma1.it/)
of [Sapienza, University of Rome](http://www.uniroma1.it/), Italy,
and in the
[Centre for Digital Music](http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/)
of the [School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science](http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/)
at [Queen Mary University of London](https://www.qmul.ac.uk/), UK,
while having both local and international collaborations.
#### ...as a teacher
As __lecturer__, I taught 4 different modules in academy (in 4 different universities).
Previously I have been working as __teaching assistant__ (5 modules, during 2 years) in academy
and __teacher in high school__ (~2.5 school years).
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#### ...as a developer
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I started programming around 1986 (10-years old)
with the [BASIC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_BASIC)
of [C-64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 "Commodore 64"),
learnt hypertext and event-driven programming
with [HyperCard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard)
on a [Mac Plus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Plus "Macintosh Plus") in the early 90's,
met C in high school,
and went on to discover the Web, object oriented programming and
functional programming (what a joy!)
in college.
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I have around __20 years of professional experience
programming__ both for private companies (~5 years)
and for research in academy (~15 years)
using programming languages as Java, Javascript, Python,
query languages as SQL and [SPARQL](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/),
web and linked data languages, protocols, and paradigms as
HTML, HTTP, REST,
RDF(S), OWL, LDP, XML, XSLT.
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### <span id="exp">Professional Experience</span>
#### Research
* Assistant Professor in the [Dept of Computer Science](https://www.uniba.it/ricerca/dipartimenti/informatica),
[University of Bari "Aldo Moro"](https://www.uniba.it), 2019-now
* PostDoc in the [Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (DIAG)](http://www.diag.uniroma1.it/),
[Sapienza, University of Rome](https://www.uniroma1.it/), 2019
* PostDoc in the [Centre for Digital Music](http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/),
[School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science](http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/),
[Queen Mary University of London](https://www.qmul.ac.uk/), 2017-2019
* PostDoc in the [Dept of Computer Science](https://www.di.uniroma1.it),
[Sapienza, University of Rome](https://www.uniroma1.it/), 2015-2016
* PhD Student in [Computer Science](https://www.di.uniroma1.it),
[Sapienza, University of Rome](https://www.uniroma1.it/), 2010-1015
* Research in Bioinformatics,
[Sapienza, University of Rome](https://www.uniroma1.it/), 2005-2008
#### Teaching
* Lecturer, _Databases_, [Dept of Computer Science](https://www.uniba.it/ricerca/dipartimenti/informatica) at [University of Bari "Aldo Moro"](https://www.uniba.it), 2019/2020
* Guest Lecturer, _Software Engineering_, [Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (DIAG)](http://www.diag.uniroma1.it/) at [Sapienza, University of Rome](https://www.uniroma1.it/), 2018/2019
* Lecturer, _Website Design and Authoring_, [School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science](http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/) at [Queen Mary University of London](https://www.qmul.ac.uk/) (UK), 2017/2018
* Guest Lecturer, _The Semantic Web_, [School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science](http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/) at [Queen Mary University of London](https://www.qmul.ac.uk/) (UK), 2017/2018
* Lecturer, _[Computer Science and Digital Communication Technologies](http://miguel76.io/InfoCoRiS.html "Course page (Italian)")_, [Department of Communication](http://www.coris.uniroma1.it/) at [Sapienza, University of Rome](http://www.uniroma1.it/) (Italy), 2016/2017
* Lecturer, _[Web Ontologies](http://miguel76.github.io/OntologiasWeb "Course page (Spanish)")_, Department of Software Engineering at [Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA)](http://itba.edu.ar/) in Argentina, 2016
* Teaching Assistant, Sapienza, University of Rome, 2011-2012
* Teacher, Public & Private High Schools in Rome (Italy), 2008-2016
* Computer Trainer, POLIS onlus - Rome (Italy), 2000
#### Other
* Webmaster - System Analyst, [AIAB](http://www.aiab.it/) (italian NGO), 2009-2010
* Programmer Analyst, [Niuma srl](https://www.niuma.it/) - Rome (Italy), 2002-2005
* Programmer, CGI S.p.A - Rome (Italy), 2001
### <span id="skills">Technical Skills</span>
* General-Purpose Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python
* Relational DBMSs: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
* Web Technologies:
* HTML, SVG, CSS, DOM interfaces and scripting
* JavaScript Client libs:
[jQuery](https://jquery.com/ "Widely-used library that abstracts some browser idiosyncrasies"),
[Underscore.js](http://underscorejs.org/ "Library for functional programming"),
[Angular.js](https://angularjs.org/ "Front end framework with two-way data binding"),
[jsPlumb](https://jsplumbtoolkit.com/ "Library to build connected diagrams such as pipelines"),
[Blockly](https://developers.google.com/blockly/ "Library to build Block Programming environments")
* Server Side: nodejs, express, Java Servlets, JSP, PHP, Apache Struts
* Web Services: SOAP standard, REST principles
* [Semantic Web](https://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ "Technology and models for the interoperability of the Web of Data") and
[Linked Data](https://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data "The Web of Data, connected, using open standards") Technologies:
* [RDF(S)](https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-primer/ "Resource Description Framework, the graph-based data model for the Semantic Web")
and [OWL](https://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer/ "Web Ontology Language, a language to formally define vocabularies on the Web"):
model and specific syntaxes ([JSON-LD](http://json-ld.org/),
[Turtle](https://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/), [RDF/XML](https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/))
* [SPARQL 1.1](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-overview/)
([Query Language](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/ "Standard query language for the Semantic Web"),
[Federation](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-federated-query/ "Extension allowing to access multiple datasources in a single query"),
[Protocol](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/ "Protocol to send/receive queries and results"),
[Update](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-update/ "Language to modify a dataset"),
[Graph Store](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-http-rdf-update/ "Protocol for a mutable data store"))
* Vocabularies/Ontologies:
[Dublin Core](http://dublincore.org/ "General-purpose vocabulary for metadata"),
[SKOS](https://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/ "Simple Knowledge Organization System, a vocabulary for knowledge organization systems such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists and taxonomies"),
[schema.org](https://schema.org/)
[FOAF](http://www.foaf-project.org/ "Vocabulary of people-related terms"),
[Service Description](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-service-description/ "Vocabulary for describing the SPARQL service offered by a server to access some dataset"),
[VoID](https://www.w3.org/TR/void/ "Vocabulary for metadata about RDF datasets"),
[SPIN SPARQL](http://spinrdf.org/sp.html "RDF representation of the semantic web query language SPARQL"),
[VISO graphic](http://purl.org/viso/main/ "Concepts and relations for graphics and visualisation"),
[Wf4Ever RO Model](http://wf4ever.github.io/ro/ "Vocabulary for resources relating to scientific workflows")
[Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records](http://vocab.org/frbr/core)
[Music Ontology](http://purl.org/ontology/mo/)
[Ontology for Media Resources 1.0](https://www.w3.org/TR/mediaont-10/)
[EBU Core](https://www.ebu.ch/metadata/ontologies/ebucore/)
* Datasets:
[DBpedia](http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ "Structured dataset automatically extracted from Wikipedia"),
[Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/ "Structured dataset built collaboratively (like Wikipedia, for data)"),
[Freebase](http://www.freebase.com/ "Legacy collaboratively built dataset"),
[FAO Geopolitical Ontology](http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geoinfo/en/ "Developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to describe, manage and exchange data related to countries and other geopolitical entities")
* Libraries/Frameworks:
[Apache Jena](https://jena.apache.org/ "Java library for Semantic Web and Linked Data applications"),
[Callimachus](http://callimachusproject.org/ "REST-based Java framework for Linked Data applications"),
[N3.js](https://github.com/RubenVerborgh/N3.js/ "RDF library for JavaScript")
* XML Technologies:
* [XML](https://www.w3.org/XML/ "eXtensible Markup Language"),
[XML Schema](https://www.w3.org/XML/Schema "XML Schema Definition Language, which offers facilities for describing the structure and constraining the contents of XML documents")
* [XPath](https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-3/ "Language to represent path expressions over XML"),
[XQuery](https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-30/ "Standard query Language on XML, an extension of XPath"),
[XSLT](https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/ "Standard template language for trasformation of XML/HTML"),
[XPL](https://www.w3.org/Submission/xpl/ "XML pipeline language proposed by Orbeon, Inc.")
(antecedent of [XProc](https://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/ "Standard XML pipeline language"))
### <span id="edu" class="page-break">Education and Research</span>
* Master's Degree in Computer Science, Sapienza, University of Rome, 2005
* __PhD in Computer Science__, __Sapienza, University of Rome__, 2015
* __Fellow of The Higher Education Academy__, __UK Professional Standards Framework__, 2019
#### Research Areas
* Linked Data/Semantic Web
* Ontology Design
* Web Services Integration
* Declarative/Visual Programming
* Collaboration and Human Computer Interaction
* Natural/Multi-Modal/Multi-Device User Interfaces
#### Main Projects
* __[Audio Commons Semantic Mediator](https://m2.audiocommons.org/)__, a single access-point to multiple providers of audio content, driven by linked data technologies and the Audio Commons Ontology
* __[Audio Commons Ontology](https://w3id.org/ac-ontology/aco)__, a data model for audio content, both musical and non-musical
* __[SparqlBlocks](http://sparqlblocks.org/)__, using Block Programming to query Linked Data
* __[SWOWS](http://swows.org/)__, platform for building Linked Data interactive apps through a declarative paradigm
* [RDF Syntax for SPARQL Algebra](http://www.meta-sparql.org/vocab/spa), a vocabulary to represent graph query semantics on Linked Data
#### Scientific Collaborations
While working in the
[Department of Computer Science](http://www.di.uniroma1.it/)
at [Sapienza, University of Rome](http://www.uniroma1.it/), Italy,
and in the
[Centre for Digital Music](http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/)
of the [School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science](http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/)
at [Queen Mary University of London](https://www.qmul.ac.uk/), UK,
I collaborated with other departments of [Sapienza, University of Rome](http://www.uniroma1.it/),
with the [Research Institute of Electronics](http://www.rie.shizuoka.ac.jp/)
at [Shizuoka University](https://www.shizuoka.ac.jp/) in Japan,
the [Dept of Software Engineering](http://itba.edu.ar/en/undergraduate/courses-studies/software-engineering)
at [Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA)](http://itba.edu.ar/) in Argentina,
and the [Music Technology Group](https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg)
at [Universitat Pompeu Fabra](https://www.upf.edu/).
I visited the [Center for Mobile Learning](http://mobilelearning.media.mit.edu/) at [MIT](http://web.mit.edu/) and
the [Computer Science Department](http://www.wellesley.edu/cs) at [Wellesley College](http://www.wellesley.edu/).
I participate and contribute to international groups (especially relevant [W3C](https://www.w3.org/) groups),
conferences (especially [ISWC](http://swsa.semanticweb.org/) e [ESWC](https://eswc-conferences.org/) series) and journals in my field.
### <span id="lang">(Natural) Languages</span>
* Spanish: native
* Italian: native-like
* English: very good command (experience in scientifical-technical reading/writing)
### <span id="pub">Publications</span>
#### 2020
* [__ARCA. Semantic exploration of a bookstore__](https://doi.org/10.1145/3399715.3399939)
_E Bernasconi, M Ceriani, M Mecella, T Catarci, M C Capanna, C Di Fazio, R Marcucci, E Pender, F M Petriccione_
Proc. AVI 2020: 78:1-78:3
* [__A Streamlined Pipeline to Enable the Semantic Exploration of a Bookstore__](https://rdcu.be/b6xX8)
_M Ceriani, E Bernasconi, M Mecella_
Proc. IRCDL 2020: 75-81
#### 2018
* [__A dataflow platform for applications based on Linked Data__](https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJCSE.2018.093783)
_M Ceriani, P Bottoni_
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 16(4): 416-429
* [__Audio Commons ontology: a data model for an audio content ecosystem__](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-00668-6_2)
_M Ceriani, G Fazekas_
Proc. ISWC 2018: 20-35
* [__Playsound.space: Inclusive Free Music Improvisations Using Audio Commons__](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-00668-6_2)
_A Stolfi, M Ceriani, L Turchet, M Barthet_
Proc. NIME 2018: 228-233
* [__Participatory musical improvisations with Playsound.space__](https://webaudioconf.com/posts/2018_18/)
_A Stolfi, A Milo, M Ceriani, M Barthet_
Proc. WAC 2018
* [__Playsound.space: enhancing a live music performance tool with semantic recommendations__](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3243908)
_F Viola, A Stolfi, A Milo, M Ceriani, M Barthet, G Fazekas_
Proc. SAAM@ISWC 2018
#### 2017
* [__SparqlBlocks: Using Blocks to Design Structured Linked Data Queries__](https://ksiresearchorg.ipage.com/vlss/journal/VLSS2017/vlss-2017-ceriani-bottoni.pdf)
_M Ceriani, P Bottoni_
Journal of Visual Languages and Sentient Systems 3
#### 2016
* [__An RDF Vocabulary for Meta-Programming with SPARQL Algebra__](http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1644/paper12.pdf)
_M Ceriani, A A Vaisman_
Proc. AMW 2016
#### 2015
* [__Using blocks to get more blocks: exploring linked data through integration of queries and result sets in block programming__](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7369012/)
_P Bottoni, M Ceriani_
Proc. Blocks and Beyond 2015
* [__SPARQL Playground: A Block Programming Tool to Experiment with SPARQL__](http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1456/paper12.pdf)
_P Bottoni, M Ceriani_
Proc. VOILA@ISWC 2015: 103
* [__Linked Data Queries as Jigsaw Puzzles: a Visual Interface for SPARQL Based on Blockly Library__](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2808435.2808467)
_P Bottoni, M Ceriani_
Proc. CHItaly 2015: 86-89
* [__Towards an Ontology-Based Generic Pipeline Editor__](http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16313-0_5)
_P Bottoni, M Ceriani_
Proc. DNIS 2015: 56-73
* [__A Framework for Situated Interaction with Augmented Surfaces__](http://ijsi.alljournals.cn/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=i223)
_P Bottoni, K Kanev, N Mirenkov, M Ceriani_
International Journal of Software & Informatics 9 (3)
#### 2014
* [__SWOWS and Dynamic Queries to build Browsing Applications on Linked Data__](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2014.10.027)
_P Bottoni, M Ceriani_
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 25(6): 738-744 (2014)
* [__Collaborative multimedia content creation and sharing by older adults__](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2598153.2600029)
_M Ceriani, P Bottoni, S Ventura, A Talamo_
Proc. AVI 2014: 345-346
* [__A Dataflow Platform for In-silico Experiments Based on Linked Data__](http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05693-7_7)
_P Bottoni, M Ceriani_
Proc. DNIS 2014: 112-131
#### 2013
* [__"_Do the gestures you think of_": creating affordances in codesign__](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2499149.2499176)
_A Talamo, S Ventura, S Giorgi, M Ceriani, P Bottoni, B Mellini_
Proc. CHItaly 2013: 22
* [__A user interface to build interactive visualizations for the semantic web__](http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1035/iswc2013_demo_42.pdf)
_P Bottoni, M Ceriani, S Valentini_
Proc. ISWC (Posters & Demos) 2013: 165-168
* [__Keeping "InTOUCH": An Ongoing Co-design Project to Share Memories, Skills and Demands through an Interactive Table__](http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39062-3_43)
_S Giorgi, M Ceriani, P Bottoni, A Talamo, S Ruggiero_
Proc. SouthCHI 2013: 633-640
#### 2007
* [__Assessment of predictions in the model quality assessment category__](http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.21669)
_D Cozzetto, A Kryshtafovych, M Ceriani, A Tramontano_
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 69 (S8), 175-183, Wiley, 2007
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