Lorenzo DI SILVESTRO

Lorenzo Di Silvestro Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Università di Catania 

Università degli Studi di Catania Postdoctoral Research Fellow June 2019 - Present (9 months)

Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania

Titolo della ricerca “Analisi semantica automatica di testi giornalistici” nell’ambito del progetto ARIA finanziato da GOOGLE DNI

Ambito della ricerca: Natural Language Processing, Visual Analysis Università di Catania

Postdoctoral Research Fellow December 2017 - Present (2 years 3 months)

Main Research Topic: “Behavioural Analysis through Econometric Models and Machine Learning Techniques”

Project: “Vision Exploitation for Data Interpretation (V.E.D.I.)”

Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania Adjunct Professor October 2016 - Present (3 years 5 months) Catania Area, Italy

Docente di "Sistemi Interattivi" e "Computer Vision" - Processing e arte generativa - Fotogrammetria - Motion tracking, 3D camera tracking

ITS Steve Jobs Academy Adjunct Professor September 2014 - July 2017 (2 years 11 months) Sicily 

Insegnante per il corso "Linguaggi Web". Argomenti trattati: HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, XML, CMS (Joomla, Wordpress) 

Insegnante per il corso "Web Applications 1 e 2" e "Programmazione" Argomenti trattati: Java, Javascript, NodeJS, PHP, Python

Insegnante per il corso "Data Management 1" Argomenti trattati: SQL, Data Visualization, R

Eris Formazione Teacher March 2017 - June 2017 (4 months) 

Fondamenti di informatica - Reti di calcolatori - Database

Contamination Lab Catania Developer April 2014 - 2014 (less than a year)

Sviluppo piattaforma web per e-learning Gestione prodotti multimediali e streaming web

Strumenti utilizzati: PHP, Wordpress, Drupal, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3

Università degli Studi di Catania Ph.D. Student January 2011 - October 2013 (2 years 10 months) Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania (Italy) 

Data Mining / Machine Learning ▪ Pattern Recognition ▪ Natural Language Processing (NLP) ▪ Knowledge Representation

University of Stuttgart Visiting PhD. Student September 2012 - July 2013 (11 months) Visualisierungsinstitut (VISUS) der Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Germany) 

Information Visualization (InfoVis)

Visual Analytics 

Machine Learning

Istituto di Teorie e Tecniche dell'Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG) - CNR Research and development department (Co.Co.Pro.) February 2009 - January 2011 (2 years)

Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques (ITTIG) @ Italian National Research Council (CNR), Firenze (Italy)

Definition and development of web data format for legal documents. Design and development of a web based portal to access ancient roman law documents.

Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare (ICB) - CNR Internship as computer systems designer and analyst November 2007 - November 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB) @ Italian National Research Council (CNR), Catania (Italy) 

Design of software and automatic classifiers for textual data.

He received his master degree (summa cum laude) in 2009.
In 2008 he joined the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR) of Florence, where he worked for two years.
In 2014 he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Gallo. During his Ph.D. studies he has been visiting researcher at Visualisierungsinstitut (VISUS) der Universität Stuttgart (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Weiskopf.

He was postdoctoral research fellow in 2017/2018 

Main Research Topic: “Behavioural Analysis through Econometric Models and Machine LearningTechniques”
Project: “Vision Exploitation for Data Interpretation (V.E.D.I.)”

He is postdoctoral research fellow in 2019/2020

Project:  “Analisi semantica automatica di testi giornalistici” nell’ambito del progetto ARIA finanziato da GOOGLE DNI
Main Research Topic: Natural Language Processing, Visual Analysis

His main research interests include information visualization, visual analytics, legal standards and semantic markup, knowledge representation, ontologies, text categorization and knowledge extraction.

Professor of Interaction and Multimedia Laboratory in the three-year degree course in computer science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Lecturer in Introduction to computational linguistics at the Department of Humanities.

Professor of Interactive Systems and Computer Vision at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania

Professor of Digital Animation Techniques and Multimedia Dramaturgy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro