SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Sandro Fiore received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Istituto Superiore Universitario di Formazione Interdisciplinare (ISUFI) at the University of Lecce in 2004. His research activities focus on high performance computing, distributed and grid computing, in particular on distributed data management and high performance database management. Since 2001, he is the Principal Investigator of the Grid Relational Catalog (GRelC) project (www.grelc.unile.it). In 2006, he joined the Scientific Computing and Operations Division at the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC) leading the Scientific Data Management Group. He was involved in the following EU Projects: EGEE-I, EGEE-II and EGEE-III and he is now actively involved in the EU FP7 IS-ENES and EGI-Inspire projects. He has been Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA, USA) in fall 2011 working on proactive distributed monitoring systems in P2P environments. He is author and co-author of more than 50 papers in refereed books/journals/proceedings on distributed and grid computing and holds a patent on data management topics. He is editor of the book “Grid and Cloud Database Management” (Springer, 2011). He is also a Member of ACM.

Position

Lecturer in “Data Mining” at the University of Salento, Italy

Scientist at the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change, Scientific Computing and Operations Division, CMCC, Italy 

Research Interests

High Performance Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing.

Distributed Data Management, Data Grid/Cloud

High performance database management and knowledge discovery from data

Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / PCMDI

October 2011 - December 2011

Activity: Data node extension to support proactive distributed monitoring in the ESGF P2P architecture.

Edited Books

S. Fiore, G. Aloisio, “Grid and Cloud Database Management”, 2011. Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-20044-1.

DBLP:

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/f/Fiore:Sandro.html

Research Projects

Grid Relational Catalog (GRelC)

The main goal of this research project is to design and implement advanced data grid services for the management, access and integration of heterogeneous data sources in grid. Starting date: June, 2001.

Patents

Italian Patent No. : RM2007A000161

Authors: Sandro Fiore, Massimo Cafaro and Giovanni Aloisio.

Title: "Method and formalism for sending instructions to distributed databases realized through a computer program",

Grants
UNIDATA Community Equipment Awards 2011 (sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF))
G. Alosio, S. Fiore, O. Marra, “Establishment of a Multiplexed Thredds Installation and a Ramadda Collaboration Environment for Community Access to Climate Change Data”.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/community/equipaward/index.html#2011

Honors & Awards
Best student paper award
G. Aloisio, M. Cafaro, E. Blasi, M. Mirto, S. Fiore, D. Lezzi, “Web Services for a Biomedical Imaging Portal”, Proceedings of ITCC2003, IEEE Press, Volume IV, pp. 432-437, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2003

Editorial Board Memberships

Editorial Board Member (Topical Editor) of the Earth System Science Data Journal (ESSD)

Journals Reviewer

Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (C&C)

Reviewer INS Information Sciences, Elsevier