Curriculum Vitae of Carlo Combi Carlo Combi was born in 1962. In 1987 he received the Laurea Degree in E.E. by the Politecnico of Milan with a thesis on "Data Compression Techniques applied to Dynamic Electrocardiograms". In 1993 he received the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering with the dissertation "Time Management in Medical Records: Modeling, Implementation, and Queries by Object-Oriented Techniques". He was in 1994 and 1995 Post-Doc fellow at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Politecnico of Milan. From 1987 to 1996 he worked within the research group in Medical Informatics at the Politecnico of Milan. From April 1996 to October 2001, Carlo Combi was with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine as Assistant Professor. Since November 2001, he is with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona: from November 2001 to February 2005, he was Associate Professor of Computer Science; since March 2005, he is Professor of Computer Science. From October 2007 to September 2012 he was head of the Department. Main research interests are related to the database and information system field, with an emphasis on the management of clinical information. The two main areas are temporal information systems (time-oriented data and process modeling) and multimedia databases. The main research topics of Carlo Combi are: temporal business processes: conceptual modeling, architectures, and management of temporal information; temporal constraint networks: consistency and controllability; temporal data warehouses and temporal data mining; XML, semistructured data and temporal information; dealing with multiple temporal dimensions in modeling and querying data; extending Event Calculus to deal with temporal granularity and indeterminacy; visualizing temporal data; managing uncertainty in temporal relationships by multiple-valued logics; WWW-based access to temporal information; dealing with granularity and indeterminacy in modeling and querying object-oriented temporal databases; modeling and querying multimedia data; temporal features of multimedia data; indexing structures; compression techniques applied on biomedical signals and images. 1
He is author of more than 100 papers published on international journals and proceedings of international conferences. He is involved in the scientific activity of several scientific international journals and conferences. He is author, with Elpida Keravnou - University of Cyprus and Yuval Shahar - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, of the book "Temporal Information Systems in Medicine", Springer, 2010. Citation indices (as of October 30, 20157 Google Scholar: citations 2450, h-index 29, i10-index 66 Scopus: citations 1331, h-index 20 ISI Web of Science: citations 815, h-index 16 Since January 2017 he is Editor in Chief, journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. From January 1999 to December 2016 he was editorial Board Member, journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Since 2015 he is steering committee member of TIME - International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning. Since 2013 he is steering committee member of IEEE ICHI - IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics. From July 2009 to July 2015 he was member (and co-founder) of the board of Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine (AIME) Society. From July 2009 to July 2013 he was chair of the board of Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine (AIME) Society. He is member of IEEE - Institute of Electrics and Electronics Engineers. He is guest-editor, with Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, of a special issue of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology on Intelligent Healthcare Informatics (2015). He is guest-editor, with Mor Peleg, University of Haifa, of a special issue of journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AIME 2011 (selected papers) (2013). He is guest editor (with Yuval Shahar, Ben Gurion University) of a special issue on "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AIME 2009 - selected papers", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal (2011). 2
He is guest editor, with Niels Peek University of Amsterdam and Allan Tucker Brunel University, of a special section of the journal Methods of Information in Medicine on "Biomedical Data Mining" (2009). He is member of the Scientific Committee, volume "New Trends in Data Warehousing and Data Analysis" (2009) of the series Annals of Information Systems (guest editor: Stanislaw Kozielski - Silesian University of Technology, Poland - and Robert Wrembel - Poznan University of Technology, Poland). He is guest editor (with Maroua Bouzid - University of Caen, Gerard Ligozat - University of Paris-SUD, and Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool) of a special issue on temporal representation and reasoning, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (2006). He is guest editor (with Giuseppe Pozzi, Politecnico di Milano), of a special issue on temporal representation and reasoning in medicine, International Journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (2006). He is member of the Scientific Committee, special issue on information visualization in medicine (guest editor: Luca Chittaro, University of Udine), journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (2000). He is guest editor (with Yuval Shahar, Stanford University), special issue on intelligent temporal information systems in medicine, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (1999). He is guest editor (with Yuval Shahar, Stanford University), special issue on time-oriented systems in medicine, journal Computers in Biology and Medicine (1997). He has been reviewer for national and international journals and magazines: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Computers in Biology and Medicine, IEEE Concurrency, IEEE Internet Computing, Methods of Information in Medicine, Rivista di Informatica of AICA, the Computer Journal, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Logic and Computation, Acta Informatica. He is general co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2014 - ICHI 2014. He is program co-chair of the 21rst International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2014. He is program co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics - ICHI 2013. He is workshop co-chair of the ACM International Workshop on Smart Health and Wellbeing - SHB 2012. He is general chair of the 18th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2011. He is scientific co-chair and local chair of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - AIME'09. 3
He is program co-chair of the IDAMAP 2007 and IDAMAP 2006 Workshops on Intelligent Data Analysis in biomedicine and Pharmacology. He is program co-chair of the 11th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 2004. He has been involved since several years as a member of the program committee of international conferences, as TIME (Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, AIME (Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine), DEXA (Database and Expert System Application), CIKM (Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), ADBIS (Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems) and of international workshops as ECDM (International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management), AITAmI (Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence), and IDAMAP (workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in biomedicine and Pharmacology), ACM IHI (SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium). Carlo Combi has been involved in national and international research projects: - project WASPSS Wise Antimicrobial Stewardship Support Systems funded by Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness Spain - project TIN2013-45491-R, and by EU grants for the regional development (EFRD) (years 2015-2017). - project Burundi at the Department of Computer Science, funded by and by Veneto Region Decentralized cooperation to the development (CUP B48I13000590003, B42C14000270002) (years 2013-2016). - project Tools for data analysis to support the National Network for Pharmacovigilance (RNFV) for the study of OLAP and data mining techniques applied to pharmacovigilance data, funded by AIFA the Drug Italian Agency (years 2011-2016). - project Daisy CBR: Health Risk Detection of Elderly People Living Alone. Alzheimer and Frontotemporal Dementia Prospecting funded by Foundation SENECA of Murcia Region (Spain) (years 2011-2012); - project IPPARCO Electronic Medical Record Solinfo for the study of Business Intelligence techniques and applications for mobile devices supporting the data analysis from medical records - project funded by Veneto Region - with software house Solinfo srl (years 2011-2012); - project Knowing for competing: providing continuing education in computer science and telecommunication to small and medium-size companies funded by Apiservizi srl (years 2010-2011); - project DW-SAN: Data warehousing, OLAP, data mining and what-if analysis on healthcare and medical data through open source tools funded by Novaratio srl (years 2008-2009); 4
- project ICT for studying the introduction of Workflow technology in real settings, national project funded by the Ministry for the Economic Development (years 2007-2008); - project MAIS for the study of information systems based on open source solutions in manufacturing companies, funded by the Ministry for the Economic Development (years 2006-2007); - project of relevant national interest MURST PRIN-COFIN'04 (Italian Ministry for University and Research) "Intelligent analysis of hemodialysis monitoring data, to improve care processes ", (years 2004-2006); - project of relevant national interest MURST PRIN-COFIN'03 (Italian Ministry for University and Research) "Spatial and geographic data representation and management in the WEB", (years 2003-2005); - project of relevant national interest MURST COFIN'00 (Italian Ministry for University and Research) "Analysis, information visualisation, and visual query in clinical monitoring databases (years 2000-2002); - project of relevant interest for Region Friuli - Venezia Giulia A Multimedia system for the automatic recognition, indexing, and retrieval of music data, (years 1999-2001); - project of relevant national interest MURST COFIN'98 (Italian Ministry for University and Research) "An agent-based architecture to support cooperative working in Medicine, (years 1998-2000); - EU project ADAPT-EXPAND, for research on web-based data management systems (years 1997-1999); - national projects MURST 40% (Italian Ministry for University and Research) "Medical Informatics" and "Bioengineering of Cardiovascular System" (years 1990-1996); - European project IT-EDUCTRA Telematics Application Programme, Sector Healthcare, European Commission (year 1998). 5