Short Biography and CV of Alessandro Longheu

Currently I work as research fellow at the Department of Electrical , Electronics and Informatics Engineering (DIEEI, formerly known as DIIT) at the University of Catania.
I received the PhD in Electronics, Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Palermo in 2001 and the MS in Informatics Engineering at the University of Catania in 1997.

From 1997 to 2020 I was involved in more than 18 research activities and projects (DSS-DROUGHT, OSIRID, SMIT, SMARTHEALTH) concerning information modeling and retrieval, workflow management, e-learning, trust and reputation, healthcare systems, complex networks, NLP and sentiment analysis, spreading models, online social networks.
Since 2000 I worked as adjunct professor of several Computer Science courses (Database, Computer networks, Programming Languages, Data mining, Complex networks and others) both at the University of Catania and at the University Kore of Enna (see ''Teaching'' item in the main menu).
Since 2001 I worked at public high schools as tenured professor of computer science and electronics, member of the board of governors and the board of education, adult courses manager, evaluation committee member, technical-scientific committee member and as Headmaster deputy
From 2001 to 2006 I also worked as system administrator of the internet/intranet services (www, e-mail) and networking at the Computing Center of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Catania.
Since 2002 I supervised several BS and MS thesis at the University of Catania and at the University Kore of Enna.
Since 2003 I joined several conferences, schools and workshops as a PC member or Organizing Committee member (ETFA, TAKMA, SPEL, IDC, SITIS, Complenet, WSCE, Complex Networks, ISI&CDN 2018, DSIoT 2019).
Since 2006 I cooperated as peer reviewer in International Journals (IEEE TAKMA, Springer CSON, Elsevier ISFI, Elsevier ESWA).
During my research activities, I authored/co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in refereed Journals and Conferences (see "Publications" item in the main menu).