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Alessandro Agostini received his Laurea in
Computer Science from
University of Milan in 1992. In 1990 he joined as an undergraduate
student the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research
(ITC-IRST) in Trento, where he started his research activity as a member of
the Mechanized Reasoning Group led by Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia,
who first introduced him to scientific research. Winner of
the AI*IA Prize, sponsored by the Italian Association for
Artificial Intelligence, as the author of the article "Bidirectional
Natural Deduction", awarded in 1993 as the best paper on Artificial
Intelligence written by an Italian young graduate student---first time
this happened in ITC-IRST's history.
From 1995 to 2000 he worked for the Ph.D. Program in Mathematical Logic and
Theoretical Computer Science (LOMIT) at the Department of
Mathematics of the University of Siena, under the supervision of
logician Franco Montagna.
After spending six months at Oxford University Computing Laboratory
carrying on research in the Logical Foundations of Computer Science
group run by Dr Lincoln A. Wallen and Dr Luke Ong, in 1999 he moved to
Amsterdam for one and an half year research visit at the Institute for Logic,
Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. Here,
he worked
on his Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of
Professor de Jongh, the last but one research student
at Madison of American mathematician Stephen C. Kleene, one of many
distinguished students of Alonzo Church.
In June 2001 he joined ITC-IRST Automated Reasoning Systems
Division run by Ing. Paolo Traverso. In 2005 he started to draw
& follow, especially with his collegue and friend Gianluca Moro, a
new direction of research on Adaptive Information Retrieval.
In February 2006, he definitely connected his
passion to sport with research vocation, by facing with some
opportunities to test new promising ideas from adaptive information
retrieval on real data in the sport environments, with special
attention to volleyball and in joint work with top physical trainer
Alessandro Guazzaloca and the elite team of Sisley Treviso.
At the end of 2007 he visited for three months the Computing
Science Department (CSD) of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland,
invited and hosted by Dr. Jeff Pan.
The academic visit opened a new research collaboration with Jeff
Pan and other members of the CSD, in the areas of description logics,
formal specification of distributed systems, knowledge-based systems and
networks, semantics for inter-agent communication protocols and
query-answering, the Semantic Web, knowledge discovery and learning.
In Fall 2008 he visited the Documentation Research and Training
Centre (DRTC) of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) at Bangalore
Centre, India, invited by Dr. Devika P. Madalli and Professor ARD
Prasad.
Research Interests: Formal learning theory, information
retrieval and its relations to machine learning, game theory and logic;
multi-agent / peer-to-peer negotiation, matching, cooperation and
teamwork.
Professional Interests: volleyball (coaching, match analysis,
physical training) & application of technology to Analysis in Sport
Environments (especially team sports). A recent result is the following:
National B2 Volleyball Championship 2007, © Trenta Volley, 2007.
Some Personal Interests: Free-ride telemark skiing, reading (see
my Bibliography here).
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by courtesy of F. Guerzoni.
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