Diego Calvanese

Diego Calvanese
Born	1966 Innsbruck, Austria
Citizenship	Italian
Alma mater	Sapienza University of Rome
Awards	ACM Fellow, European Association for Artificial Intelligence Fellow
Scientific career
Fields	Description Logics, knowledge representation and reasoning in AI, database theory
Institutions	Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Umeå University
Thesis	Unrestricted and Finite Model Reasoning in Class-Based Representation Formalisms (1995)
Website	https://www.inf.unibz.it/~calvanese/

Diego Calvanese is an Italian computer scientist and professor at the faculty of computer science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. In addition, since 2019, he is Wallenberg Visiting Professor at the department of computing science, Umeå University. He is well known for his scientific contributions in knowledge representation and reasoning in AI, description logics, and database theory.

Education

Calvanese graduated in electronic engineering (110/110 cum laude) at Sapienza University, Rome, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Awards (selection)

• Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (2015)
• Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2019)

Entrepreneurial Activities

Diego Calvanese is the initiator and co-founder of Ontopic, a spin-off of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

External links

• Ontopic (ontopic.ai)
• Google Scholar