Vincenzo Pallotta
Strategy and Innovation
Professional Status
Entrepreneur
Open to opportunities
About Me
I am a Information and Communication Technology professional and I have been active in this area since 1985.
Started as a freelance consultant with the development of business applications for personal productivity and small enterprises. Then I evolved into more sophisticated businesses in computing technology.
After six years of IT consulting, I came back to study and I earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science.
After that, I re-oriented my profession towards academy and research, but without stopping to look at ICT in real markets.
My research interests span from theoretical computer science (Programming Theory, Computational Logics, Formal Methods, and Artificial Intelligence) to more applied fields such as Data Mining, Computational Linguistics, Human-Computer Interaction, Web, Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing.
I consider myself a good teacher and I started this activity very early in 1987 in adult education. At university level, I have been charged of teaching several courses in computer science and been invited as guest lecturer in conferences tutorials.
Currently, I am trying to leverage the research I have done in Human-Language Technology to build an innovative Business Intelligence product for dealing with unstructured language data in form of interactions (conversations).
I am the co-founder of InterAnalytics.
I am the co-founder of ThinkServices.
I am a co-founder of the Switzerland ISOC chapter (in formation).
Started as a freelance consultant with the development of business applications for personal productivity and small enterprises. Then I evolved into more sophisticated businesses in computing technology.
After six years of IT consulting, I came back to study and I earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science.
After that, I re-oriented my profession towards academy and research, but without stopping to look at ICT in real markets.
My research interests span from theoretical computer science (Programming Theory, Computational Logics, Formal Methods, and Artificial Intelligence) to more applied fields such as Data Mining, Computational Linguistics, Human-Computer Interaction, Web, Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing.
I consider myself a good teacher and I started this activity very early in 1987 in adult education. At university level, I have been charged of teaching several courses in computer science and been invited as guest lecturer in conferences tutorials.
Currently, I am trying to leverage the research I have done in Human-Language Technology to build an innovative Business Intelligence product for dealing with unstructured language data in form of interactions (conversations).
I am the co-founder of InterAnalytics.
I am the co-founder of ThinkServices.
I am a co-founder of the Switzerland ISOC chapter (in formation).
Associate Dean
UBIS University
Since August 2012
Part-time
Geneva
Switzerland
- IT Director
- Academic Quality Assurance
- Professor
- Deputy Dean
- Program Director
Detailed Description
- Certificate of Advanced Studies in Entrepreneurship
- Student Information System
- Learning Management System
- ISO 29990 Accreditation
Company website
Chairman
Switzerland Chapter of the Internet Society
Since April 2012
Volunteer Work
Geneva
Switzerland
Research Coordinator and Adjunct Professor
Webster University
April 2008
to December 2010
- I have been teaching several classes in the Computer Science and Information Management program.
- I was a research coordinator in the field of computational linguistics.
Chargé de cours
University of Geneva
August 2008
to December 2009
- Research in the field of Services Science and in particular on Social Neworking Services, Mobile Information Systems and Pervasive Services.
Professor
European University
January 2009
to June 2009
- Taught courses on Management Information Systems at bachelor and MBA level.
Research Associate and lecturer
University of Fribourg
November 2005
to December 2008
- I joined the PAI group (Pervasive and Artificial Intelligence) in November 2005. I was a senior research fellow and I have been teaching in several courses such as: Ubiquitous Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Programming in Java.
- Since June 2006 I was principal investigator in a Swiss national research project uMove on new interaction paradigms based on motion-awareness (http://www.umove.ch), the Kinetic User Interface.
- I organized the MobiKUI workshop in 2008: http://u-move.blogspot.com/2008/06/mobikui-workshop_27.html
- The focus of my research was on Ubiquitous Computing, Multi-Agent Systems, Pervasive Collaboration, Human-Computer Interaction.
Visiting Scholar
University of Stanford
August 2005
to November 2005
- Visiting the (CSLI) Computational Semantics Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information.
Researcher and Lecturer
EPFL
August 2002
to October 2005
- From 2002 to 2004 I have been post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Artificial Intelligence laboratory of the School of Information and Communication Science. During this period I have been:
- Member of the European FP5 project INSPIRE on Interaction through cpeech with consumer appliances.
- Member of the Swiss NCCR IM2 on Interactive Multimodal Information Management.
- In 2005 I've been member of the Global Computing Center headed by Martin Rajman as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer.
Senior Researcher
IM2 Project
August 2002
to August 2005
- I contributed in the planning and execution of the MDM Integrated Project on Multimodal Dialogue Management (held at EPFL and University of Geneva)
- I was the leader of the Multimodal Dialogue Ontology working group.
- Within this project I participated to the exchange program with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley where I spent 1 year and developed a model for conversational analysis of meeting discussions based on argumentation.
- Eventually, this model has been used as the foundations of the core technology of my startup interAnalytics and applied to Customer Interaction Analytics.
Visiting Scholar
International Computer Science Institute - Berkeley
January 2004
to March 2005
- I spent one year at ICSI as a visiting researcher in the framework of the IM2 exchange program. I worked on the design of an ontology for the description of the dynamics of meetings. In particular I focused on meeting discussions oriented towards decision making and conflict resolution. The argumentative modeling of meeting discussions is particularly useful in Question-Answering and Summarization of meetings.
Visiting Scholar
University of California, Berkeley
January 2004
to December 2004
- I have been visiting the Department of Linguistics of UC Berkeley. Mainly I joined several classes and graduate courses in Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis and Philosophy of Language. Remarkably, I met Prof. Charles Fillmore (my supervisor), Prof. George Lakoff and Prof. John Searle.
Research Assistant and Lecturer
EPFL
August 1998
to August 2002
- I joined EPFL as a Ph.D. student and I have been member of the Information and Communication Science Faculty for six years.
- I carried out my Ph.D. thesis work at the Theoretical Computer Science Laboratory headed by Prof. Giovanni Coray and I earned the Ph.D. degree in 2002.
- I have been member of the MEDIA (Document Engineering) research group.
- During these years I've been also involved in teaching at undegraduate level:
- Foundations of Programming Languages,
- Multimedia Document Engineering,
- Natural Language Processing
- and post-graduate level:
- Language and Speech Engineering.
Visiting Scholar
Università di Venezia
Since February 2002
- Collaboration with Prof. Rodolfo Delmonte on Robust Deep Linguistic Parsing with GETARUN.
Consultant
University of Pisa
January 1998
to July 1998
- I was member of the Computer Science Department, research group on Knowledge Discovery and Deductive Databases (Prof. Turini and Prof. Pedreschi).
- I collaborated with CNR-CNUCE on two research projects:
- DATASIFT project (market basket analysis)
- Lotta all'evasione fiscale (tax fraud detection)
Consultant
University of Pisa
January 1995
to December 1997
- Collaboration with CISIAU (Interfaculty Center for Information Services in the Humanities Area) and Faculty of Political Science.
- Teaching assistantship in a course on "Document Informatics" (Informatica Documentale) given by Prof. Maria Simi and Prof. Silvano Antonelli.
- Involved in a research project financed by "Commissione Rettorale per la Storia dell'Università" (Academic Senate Committee for the History of University) on the Statistical Processing of Historical Data of the University of Pisa. Co-author together with Dott. Danilo Barsanti, of two related books, published by the Pisa University Press (ETS).
Consultant and Technical Instructor
Studio Proteo Snc.
September 1989
to August 1991
- Taught courses for Professional Certification (“formazione professionale”) in office automation, programming (COBOL, Clipper, C) and system management (OS370, Unix).
- Responsible of the design, development, and management of several business management applications in Clipper in Novell network environment.
Analyst-Programmer and System Manager
SELCODATA Srl.
March 1988
to September 1989
- IBM Agent for PC and Mini-systems (AS-400)
- Development of enterprise business applications (COBOL, Clipper, C), System Management (MS-DOS, Unix/Xenix) and Database Management (Oracle, DB2, DbaseIV).
- Responsible of the development of the following projects:
- Blood donors database at the public hospital
- Customization of a Bill-of-material module for "cut optimization" of cardboard boxes.
- Setup and management of a networked ERP solution in Unix for beverages distribution.
Analys, Developper and System Manager
Computime SE, Srl.
September 1987
to December 1987
- Computime SE was a subsidiary of large Rome-based company (COMPUTIME) which was a Apple computer retailers and solution provider in Desktop Publishing, Office Automation and Design.
- I was in charge of the technical support and training for the Computime SE Apple-based solutions.
Technician
COMPUTRONIC Snc.
January 1987
to August 1987
- Technical support with Personal Computers and related software
- Development of personal business applications.
