Information

Membership Number: FCA3517

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences

Corresponding Email: leone@unical.it

Homepage(s): https://www.mat.unical.it/leone/wiki/HomePage; https://www.unical.it/storage/teachers/leone/?lang=en 

Present and Previous Positions

Full Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Calabria, Coordinator of the PHD program in Mathematics and Informatics

Director of the CINI Department of the University of Calabria, Director of the INDAM Research Unit of the University of Calabria

The Rector of the University of Calabria

• June 1986–December 1991: Research assistant at CRAI, Rende, Italy • January 1992–September 1995: Researcher at CNR (Italian National Research Council), based at the ISI CNR Institute in Rende, Italy • October 1995–September 2000: Professor of Database Systems in the Institute of Information Systems at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), Austria • Since October 2000: Full professor of Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Calabria. • October 2000–October 2008: Chair of the Computer Science Bachelor and Master Program, University of Calabria. • January 2009-October 2013: Director of the PHD School in Systems Engineering, Informatics, Mathematics, and Operations Research of the University of Calabria. • July 2008-October 2018: Coordinator of the PHD program in Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Calabria. • November 2008-October 2018: Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Calabria.

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Nicola Leone is an Italian computer scientist who works in the areas of artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, and database theory.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

• EurAI Fellow since August 2012 (Montpellier, France). The EurAI Fellows program recognizes individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe. The EurAI Fellows Program honors only a very small percentage of the total membership of all EurAI member societies (up to a maximum of 3%). • AAIA Fellow since 2021, elected by the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) in November 2021. • Member of the Academia Europaea, since 2019. • Honorary professor at the TU Wien, since 2019. • Winner of the Test-of-Time Award (Oxford, UK, July 2018), at the 34th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) (paper with the highest impact of the previous ten years) • Winner of the Best Student Paper Award (Melbourne, Australia, Agosto 2017) at 33th International Conference of Logic Programming (ICLP) with Giovanni Amendola and Marco Manna. • Winner of Best Paper Award at the International Conference of Logic Programming - ICLP (Cork, Ireland, September 2015) – the most important conference woldwide in the field of logic programming – for the paper "Complexity and Compilation of GZ-Aggregates in Answer Set Programming", coauthored with Mario Alviano. • Winner of ACM-PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award (Providence, New York, USA, 2009), with Georg Gottlob and Francesco Scarcello. PODS (ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems) is the most important conference in the field of Database Theory woldwide. • Winner of the prize Gems of PODS (San Francisco, USA, June 26, 2016), for the research on Hypertree Decompositions, carried out with Georg Gottlob, Gianluigi Greco and Francesco Scarcello. • Winner of the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference of Logic Programming - ICLP (Melbourne, Australia, August 2017), for the paper "Finite model reasoning over existential rules", coauthored with Giovanni Amendola and Marco Manna. • Winner of the prize "Cedro della Riviera" for Scientific Research in 2017. • Winner of the prize "Pericle D’Oro" for Scientific Research in 2016. • Winner of prize "La Calabria nel mondo" in 2013. • Winner of the prize "Galarte Scienza 2011" - supported by the President of the Italian Republic, and granted to the best calabrian scientists of the year. • Winner of a Civic Honor in 2011 in Diamante, for the excellence of his research activities. • Member of the list of the "Top Italian Scientist" of the Via Academy (www.via-academy.org), listing the most cited italian scientists.

• Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR) since January 2003. • Member of the Steering Committee of the European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA). • Member of the Steering Committee of WASP (2002–2005) - Working Group on Answer Set Programming, funded by the European Commission, within the fifth programme. • Member of the Executive Board of the Italian Logic Programming Association - GULP [2006-2012]. • Member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Logic Programming (ALP) • Program/General chair: --- AI*IA 2019 - 18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Cosenza, Italy, November 20-22, 2019 (General Chair). --- JELIA 2019 - 16th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, Rende, Italy, May, 2019 (General Chair). --- Datalog 2.0 2019 - 3rd International Workshop on the Resurgence of Datalog in Academia and Industry, June 3-5, 2019, Philadelphia, PA (USA) (General Chair). --- PADL 2018 - 20th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, Los Angeles, California, United States, January 8--13 2018. --- LBFLR 2017 - International Workshop on Logic-Based Formalisms for Legal Reasoning}, Rende, Italy, May 18-19, 2017. --– CILC’10 – 25th Italian Conference on Computational Logics, Cosenza, Italy, July 2010. --– LPNMR’05 – 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Calabria, Italia, September 5–8, 2005. --– INFOMIX Workshop on Data Integration Calabria, Italia, September 8, 2005. --– APPIA-GULP-PRODE’03 – Joint Conference on Declarative Programming, Reggio Calabria, September 2003. --– JELIA’02 – European Conference on Logic in Artificial Intelligence, Rende, September 23–26, 2002. --– LPNMR’99 – 5th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, El Paso, Texas USA, 2-4 Dicembre 1999. • Member of numerous (more than 100) program committees for conferences and workshops in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Databases, including IJCAI, KR, AAAI, ECAI, ICLP, LPNMR, PODS, ICDT. For several meetings, service has been made over an extended period. Recent meetings (selection): KR 2022, ICLP 2022, KR 2021, ICLP 2021, KR 2020, ICLP 2020, LPNMR 2019, JELIA 2019, AI*IA 2019, PODS 2018, FOIKS 2018, KR 2018, ICLP 2018, AI*IA 2017, KR 2016, JELIA 2016, AAAI 2015, IJCAI 2015, AAAI 2014, JELIA 2014, KR 2014, LPNMR 2013, PAI 2013, JELIA 2012, KR 2012, NMR 2012, ICLP 2012, ECAI 2012, ICLP 2011, LPNMR 2011, INAP 2011, KR 2010, JELIA 2010. • Editorial Responsibilities: --- Journal of the Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, Cambridge University Press, Area Editor for “Knowledge Representation and Nonmonotonic Reasoning”. --- Intelligenza Artificiale - The International Journal of the AI*IA, IOS Press, member of the Editorial Board. --- Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), Guest Editor, Special Issue on Knowledge Representation and Logic Programming, Elsevier, Volume 138, N. 1 and 2, June, 2002. --- Journal of the Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Guest Editor, Special Issue on the 25th Italian Conference on Computational Logics, 2012. • Reviews for many conferences and journals, including top journals like ACM Transactions, Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), and IEEE Transactions. • Reviewer of national and many international scientific projects in various countries, including the EU programs FP5, FP6.

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CfWxOHAAAAAJ&hl=en 

Other Information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Leone