Stefano Rizzi

Full Professor, PhD

University of Bologna

Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY)
Tel. +39-051-2093542
Fax +39-051-2093540

C.d.L. in Ingegneria e Scienze Informatiche
University of Bologna
Via Sacchi, 3 - 47521 Cesena (ITALY)
Tel. +39-0547-338845
Fax +39-0547-338054

E-Mail: stefano.rizzi@unibo.it

Biography

Stefano Rizzi received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Bologna, Italy. Since 2005 he is Full Professor at the University of Bologna. He has published about 200 papers in international refereed journals and conferences mainly in the fields of data warehousing, business intelligence, and pattern recognition, and a research book on data warehouse design. He is member of the steering committee of the ACM International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP) and of the editorial board of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal of Elsevier, and has been a member of the steering committee of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER). In 2003 he was program chair of the Sixth DOLAP Workshop, hosted by CIKM. In 2008 and 2016 he was area editor for data warehousing for the Springer Encyclopedia of Database Systems. In 2012 he was general co-chair of ER. In 2013 he co-chaired the First International Workshop on Social Business Intelligence (SoBI), hosted by the ADBIS Conference, and was guest editor of the IJDWM special issue including selected papers from SoBI and EDA. In 2017 he co-chaired the PhD Consortium of the ADBIS Conference. In 2020 he was appointed ER Fellow from the ER Steering Committee. He participated in the H2020-ICT-2015 TOREADOR project on big data analytics and in several national research projects contracts with companies. He is now part of the Agritech PNRR Project. His research interests include data warehouse design and business intelligence, in particular OLAP on NoSQL data, social business intelligence, and analysis services for big data.

Events

September 2022: Invited tutorial at the 26th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (Turin)
March 29, 2022: Program Co-Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Data Platform Design, Management, and Optimization (Edinburgh)
November 3, 2020: Awarded with the ER Fellow Award by the ER Steering Committee
September 24-28, 2018: Lectures on "Boosting the Data Warehouse Life-Cycle Through Conceptual Design" at the BDMA Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (Bruxelles, Belgium)
October 4, 2018: Invited talk on "Variety-aware explanation and analysis of document-oriented database" at EDA 2018 (Tanger, Morocco)
September 24, 2017: Co-chair of the PhD Consortium at ADBIS 2017 (Nicosia, Greece)
March 6, 2016: Lecture on "Agility meets Data Warehouse design" at the Spring School on Models, Systems, and Algorithms for Role-Based BI (Dagstuhl, Germany)
June 22, 2015: Half-day seminar on "Boosting the Data Warehouse Life-Cycle Through Conceptual Design" at TDWI Conference 2015 (Munich).
July, 2014: Member of the Editorial Board of the DKE Journal.
March 7, 2014: Invited talk on "Data Warehouse and Beyond: Designing the BI Pyramid" at EUNIS BITF Conference (Paris).
September 1, 2013: Program Co-Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Social Business Intelligence (Genoa).
October 15-18, 2012: General Chair of the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (Florence).
August 4-9, 2011: Dagstuhl perspective seminar on "Data Warehousing: from Occasional OLAP to Real-time Business Intelligence" (Dagstuhl, Germany)
July 5, 2011: Lecture on "Collaborative Business Intelligence" at the First European Business Intelligence Summer School (Paris).
June 6-8, 2011: Course on "Data Warehouse Design" at Technology Transfer (Rome).
March 25, 2011: Seminar on "Conceptual and Logical Design of Data Warehouses" at Business Intelligence Consultants (Zurich).
September 2010: Invited talk on "New Frontiers in Business Intelligence: Distribution and Personalization" at ADBIS 2010 (Novi Sad, Serbia)