Name: Miguel Ceriani (Michele Ceriani in italian documents)

Current Position: Researcher in the Semantic Technology Laboratory (STLab), part of the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)

Born: 4th May 1976 in Rosario (Argentina)

Citizenship: Italian-Argentinian

Education:

• MS and PhD in Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome,
• Fellow of HEA (UKPSF)

Email: miguel.ceriani@gmail.com, miguel.ceriani@uniba.it (academic)

Web: GitHub, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, dblp

Short Bio

As a researcher. Since 2010 I have been researching semantic technologies (Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies), both in general and applied to diverse specific application domains. I also do some work in computational genomics, collaborating with biology researchers. I have been working in Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Queen Mary University of London, UK, University of Bari, Italy, and National Research Council, Italy, 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).

As a developer. 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, web and linked data languages, protocols, and paradigms as HTML, HTTP, REST, RDF(S), OWL, LDP, XML, XSLT.

Professional Experience

Research

• Researcher in the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), 2023-now
• Assistant Professor in the Dept of Computer Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 2019-2023
• PostDoc in the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (DIAG), Sapienza, University of Rome, 2019
• PostDoc in the Centre for Digital Music, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, 2017-2019
• PostDoc in the Dept of Computer Science, Sapienza, University of Rome, 2015-2016
• PhD Student in Computer Science, Sapienza, University of Rome, 2010-1015
• Research in Bioinformatics, Sapienza, University of Rome, 2005-2008

Teaching

• Lecturer, Databases (3 editions), Dept of Computer Science at University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 2019/2020 - 2022/2023
• Guest Lecturer, Software Engineering, Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (DIAG) at Sapienza, University of Rome, 2018/2019
• Lecturer, Website Design and Authoring, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (UK), 2017/2018
• Guest Lecturer, The Semantic Web, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (UK), 2017/2018
• Lecturer, Computer Science and Digital Communication Technologies, Department of Communication at Sapienza, University of Rome (Italy), 2016/2017
• Lecturer, Web Ontologies, Department of Software Engineering at Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) 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 (italian NGO), 2009-2010
• Programmer Analyst, Niuma srl - Rome (Italy), 2002-2005
• Programmer, CGI S.p.A - Rome (Italy), 2001

Technical Skills

• General-Purpose Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python
• Relational DBMSs: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
• Web Technologies:
  • Front-End: HTML, SVG, CSS, DOM interfaces and scripting, React, AngularJS (predecessor of Angular), jQuery
  • Back-End: Node.js, Express.js, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages, Apache Struts, PHP
  • Web APIs: RESTful principles, SOAP standard, OpenAPI
• Semantic Web and Linked Data Technologies:
  • RDF(S) and OWL: model and specific syntaxes (JSON-LD, Turtle, RDF/XML)
  • SPARQL 1.1 (Query Language, Federation, Protocol, Update, Graph Store)
  • Well known Vocabularies/Ontologies: Dublin Core, SKOS, schema.org FOAF, Service Description, VoID, SPIN SPARQL, Wf4Ever RO Model Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Music Ontology Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 EBU Core
  • Datasets: DBpedia, Wikidata
    • Libraries/Frameworks: Apache Jena, Callimachus, N3.js
• XML Technologies:
  • XML, XML Schema
  • XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XPL (antecedent of XProc)

Education and Research

• 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

Scientific Collaborations

While working in the above mentioned research centres, I collaborated with:

• departments of Social Science and Psychology of Sapienza, University of Rome,
• department of Biology of University of Bari “Aldo Moro”,
• the Research Institute of Electronics at Shizuoka University in Japan,
• the Dept of Software Engineering at Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) in Argentina,
• the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and
• the Met Office.

I participate and contribute to international groups (especially relevant W3C groups), conferences (especially ISWC e ESWC series) and journals in my field.

(Natural) Languages

• Spanish: native
• Italian: native-like
• English: very good command (experience in scientifical-technical reading/writing)