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Biography
Personal Data and Education
Born in Matera July 8th 1963.
1989 – Degree in Civil Engineering cum laude , University of Bari, Italy.
1995 – PhD in Hydraulic Engineering. University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy.
Main Employment History
1995 – 2000: Research Fellow, Engineering Faculty of Taranto, Technical University of Bari, Italy.
2001 – 2003: Associate Professor, Engineering Faculty of Taranto, Technical University of Bari, Italy.
2003: Full Professor, Engineering Faculty of Taranto, Technical University of Bari, Italy.
2006 – 2009: Dean of the Engineering Faculty of Taranto, Technical University of Bari, Italy.
2006 – 2009: Member of the Academic Council of the Technical University of Bari, Italy.
2014 – : Member of the Administration Council of the Technical University of Bari, Italy.
Recent International Scientific Activity and Appointments
Editor of the Journal of Hydroinformatics (http://www.iwaponline.com/jh/default.htm) (2015 –)
Editor in Chief of the Journal of Hydroinformatics (http://www.iwaponline.com/jh/default.htm) (2009 –)
Member of the:
• International Scientific Committee of the International Conferences on Hydroinformatics (2004 –).
• International Scientific Committee of Computing and Control for the Water Industry Conferences (2005 –).
• International Scientific Committee of Water Distribution System Analysis Conferences (2008 –).
• International Scientific Committee of International Perspective on Water Resources & the Environment (2010, 2012).
• International Program Committee of Genetic Programming at GECCO (2014, 2015)
• Scientific Advisory Committee of “River basins, reservoir sedimentation and water resources” (IAEG 2014)
• Oversight Scientific Committee of Water System Analysis Conferences (2008 –).
• Member IWA Leadership Team for the Hydroinformatics section (2011 –).
• Chair IWA Leadership Team for the Hydroinformatics section (2015 –).
Invited speaker Plenary Session at Computer and Control in Water Industry (CCWI), 2007.
Invited speaker World City Water Forum, 2009.
Invited speaker Plenary Session at Efficient and Sustainable Water System Management (EWaS), 2016.
Reviewer for more than 10 international journals and Outstanding Reviewer Prize for IWA, 2006.
Honorary Visiting Professor at University of Exeter, UK (2008 –).
Chair of the technical program of and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI 2013)
Chair of the technical program Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA 2014)
Recent Research Interests
Data-Modelling and soft-computing for environmental systems
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Support Vector Machines
• Evolutionary Polynomial Regression
Hydroinformatics and decision support systems
Flooding and risk mapping
Water Distribution Systems analysis, planning and design
• Network Simulation Models
• Reliability Analysis and Rehabilitation Planning
• Pumping Optimization
• Leakage reduction and control
Research transfer as tools for students, practitioners and researchers
WDNetXL: a smart tool for integrated Water Distribution Network (WDN) analysis. It is a suite of MS-Office Excel functions which entail several typical and innovative analyses on WDN together with a complete documentation on WDN analysis (MS-Office PowerPoint presentations, scientific documents and multimedia documents). It is the Italian alternative to EPANET package from USA EPA.
ANN MOGA-XL: a multi-objective strategy to design Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). It is a suite of MS-Office Excel functions allowing to design and train any data-modelling purpose.
EPR MOGA-XL: a genetic programming strategy to model data in order to have symbolic formulation for models. It is a suite of MS-Office Excel functions allowing to perform symbolic data-driven modelling for any purpose. It is espe-cially useful for data from environmental phenomena.
Bibliographic Indices
GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS H-index = 25, Number of Citations = 1869
SCOPUS H-index = 20, Number of Citations = 1218
ISI WEB OF SCIENCE H-index = 17, Number of Citations = 888