Curriculum

Curriculum

Pasquale De Meo

BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS
H-Index Scholar: 34
H-Index Scopus: 26
Scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=PX15CIgAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao
DBLP: https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pid/94/5332.html

• EDUCATION

2006 PhD in Computer Science, University of Calabria, Italy
2002 MSc in Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy


• CURRENT POSITIONS

2015 – Today Associate Professor in Computer Science. Director of the MSc course in Digital Journalism
University of Messina, Italy


• PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2012 – 2015 Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Computer Science
University of Messina

2011– 2012 Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Computer Science
University of Messina




• FELLOWSHIPS

2017 – Today External Member, Birbeck Institute for Data Analytics (BIDA), London, United Kingdom.
2016 – 2019 Fellow, Data Science Institute, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom.
2010 – 2011 Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Computer Science, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 – 2010 Postdoc, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
2008 – 2009 Postdoc, National Research Council (CNR), Palermo, Italy
2007 – 2008 Postdoc, University of Calabria, Italy

• EDITORSHIP

2018 Associate Editor – IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

2018 Associate Editor, SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPUTER REVIEW

2017 Associate Editor – IEEE Access

2017 Lead Guest Editor, Special issue on “Algorithms in Online Social Networks”, Algorithms Journal (with J. Yao).

2016 Associate Editor – CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology

2016 Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Analysis and Applications of Complex Social Networks" Complexity Journal, (with K. Musyal-Gabrys and P. Brodka), Impact Factor: 3.514


• MAIN GRANTS

2019-2023 Local PI, Dynamics and Control of Complex Social Networks (ID190101087- RES18/1529) financed byARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery Project, 600, 000 USD (Principal Investigator: Prof. K. Musyal-Gabrys, UTS Sidney).

2018-2022 Local PI, DigForAsp (Digital forensics: evidence analysis via intelligent systems and practices) – CA17124 , funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) (Principal Investigators: Prof. J. Medina and Prof. S. Costantini).

2017 Microsoft Azure Research Grant (40, 000 USD). Community Detection in Directed Graphs. Role: Principal Investigator

2017 Italian Ministry of Research (3, 000 Euros). Research Grant to Best Italian Researchers for Basic Research Activities.

2013 Advanced Database Technologies in the field of Digital Humanities (financed by Italian Ministry of University, 110, 000 Euros). Role: Workpackage Leader.

2015 EASE: Entity Aware Search Engines (financed by Italian Ministry of University, 70, 000 Euros). Role: Workpackage Leader.

2009 TruSIS - Trust in Social Internetworking Systems (Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, financed by European Union FP7 programme, 82, 000 Euros). Role: Principal Investigator.

2006-2007 Quadrantis: Quality of service, Diagnosis, Reaction, Assessment Techniques in Information Systems (financed by Italian Ministry of University, 50, 000 Euros). Role: Workpackage Leader.

• MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
1. University of Technology at Sidney, Sidney, Australia: Data Science, Web 2.0, Social Network Analysis (collaboration with Prof. Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys).
2. VU University of Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Data Science, Social Network Analysis, Web 2.0. (collaboration with Prof. Lora Aroyo)
3. Delft University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Delft, The Netherlands: Folksonomies, User Modelling, Social Web (collaboration with Prof. Geert-Jan Houben).
4. Birbeck University of London, London, UK: Centrality Metrics on Graphs, Social Network Analysis (collaboration with Prof. Mark Levene and Prof. Alessandro Provetti).
5. University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, USA: Social network Analysis, Criminal Networks (collaboration with Prof. Emilio Ferrara)
6. University College of London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, London, UK: Social and Urban Computing, Folksonomies (collaboration with Prof. Licia Capra ).
7. Lixto Software Gmbh, Wien, Austria: Web Data Extraction (collaboration with Dr. R. Baumgartner).



• MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS

Best Italian PhD Thesis in Artificial Intelligence. The prize was awarded by AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence), 2006.

Press coverage: MIT Technology Review, Engadget, Fast Company, The Washington Post, Communications of the ACM, The Daily Dot, Business Standard, FreePress Journal.

Four of my conference papers have been recognized among the best papers. An extended version was invited for journal publications. The conferences were IEEE/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2003 and 2005, Cooperative Information Systems 2003 and 2005.


• SUPERVISION OF PHD STUDENTS/RESEARCH ASSISTANT AND COURSES AT PHD LEVEL

2019-2023 Phd co-supervisor, Mr. Mingshan Jia, University of Technology at Sidney, Australia.

2014 – 2017 PhD co-supervisor of Mr. Salvo Catanese, University of Messina. Dissertation Title: The Network structure of Mafia syndicates.

2014 – 2015 MsC supervisor of Mr. Sebastiano Piccolo, now PostDoc at Technical University of Denmark.

2014 PhD Course: Fast Methods for detecting communities in large networks, Department of Informatics, King'sCollege, London. PhD course in Computer Science.


• SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

2002 – 2015 I've supervised more than 20 students enrolled in the Computer Science (University of Messina, Italy) and Electrical Engineering (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy) MsC programmes. All of my students work in prestigious software consultancy firms, both in Italy and abroad.

2002 – 2015 I've supervised more than 90 students enrolled in the following BsC degree programs: Computer Science (University of Messina, Italy), Electrical Engineering (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy), Economics (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy), Journalism (University of Messina, Italy). Most of my students work in prestigious software consultancy firms, both in Italy and abroad.

• PC MEMBERSHIP IN CONFERENCES

ACM SIGKDD (2019, 2020), IJCAI - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2020), ACM Conference on World Wide Web (Web Science Track, 2015, 2016), ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2014, 2015, 2020), ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization-Doctoral Consortium (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC 2016, 2017), International Workshop on Applications of Social Network Analysis (SNAA 2014, 2016, 2017,2018, 2019, 2020), International Workshop on Machine Learning for Large-Scale Networks (2017), IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2016, 2017), IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2017), International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS 2016), International Workshop on Social Media for Personalization And Search (SoMePeAS 2017), International Conference on Signal Processing and Intelligence Systems (ICSPIS 2017), International Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (USEWOOD 2015, 2016), IEEE Symposium on Big Data Management and Analytics (BIDMA 2016, 2017), International Conference on Social Informatics (2016), International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSCi-X 2016), International Workshop on Criminal Network Analysis and Mining (CrimeNet 2014), International Workshop on Connecting Online & Offline Life (COOL 2014), International Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (UseWOOD 2014, 2015, 2016), International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers (CONIELECOMP 2012, 2103, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2012, 2013, 2014), International Workshop on Computational Social Science: Social Contagion, Collective Behaviour, and Networks (CSS 2014), International Workshop on Collective Behaviors and Networks (COVEnANT 2013), ACM International Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2011), International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2011, 2012, 2013), International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC 2011), IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICDIWT 2011), International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INCT 2011), Simposio su Sistemi Evoluti per le Basi di Dati (SEBD 2011), Workshop on User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web (UWeb 2011), Workshop on Augmenting User Models with Real World Experiences to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation (AUM 2011, 2012), International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Systems (ICSECS2011), IEEE International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Telecommunications and Information Systems (SePTIS 2009), International Symposium on Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics (SOIC 2005, 2006), International Joint Conference on Declarative Programming (AGP-2003).


• COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

2015 Project Evaluator, Finnish Academy of Science, Finland.

2013 Project Evaluator, Italian Ministry for Scientific Research and University, Italy.

2009, 2010,
2011, 2017 Project Evaluator for Qatar National Research Fund, Qatar.