{"id":10243,"date":"2025-06-30T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/cristian-lai\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:11:38","slug":"cristian-lai","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/en\/people\/cristian-lai\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristian Lai"},"content":{"rendered":"

M.Sc. in Computer Science Technologies (University of Cagliari – Italy), Ph.D in Computer Science (University of Compi\u00e8gne – France). With 16 years of experience, member of CRS4’s ISOC (Informatoin SOCiety) group, since 2000. He spent the first couple of years working in the field of distributed applications. After that, he spent 4 years working for a research project (EU V FW IP) looking to understand the inclusion of visually impaired pupils in mainstream education. As side projects, he was involved in research on peer-to-peer systems and semantic distributed knowledge bases. In 2002, he started a collaboration with the UTC’s Heudiasyc laboratory. Since then, he has been conducting independent and collaborative research in information retrieval, ontology engineering and Web of Data. He has been continuing along the same path, while extending his work to the study of Sensor Networks and IoT. In 2015 he spent one month as Visiting Researcher within the Department of Advanced Robotics at the CIT (Chiba Institute of Technology) in Japan, and in 2016, within the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS), University of Lincoln (United Kingdom), coducting research in the field of Semantic Sensor Networks and Robotics. In 2016 he applied for the Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship call, in conjuction with the University of Lincoln. The proposal has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence. He is leading several industrial collaborations with local SME and start-ups. He collaborates with the main public transport company based in Cagliari, CTM S.p.a. (Consorzio Trasporti e Mobilit\u00e0), on technology transfer activities. He serves as a reviewer in several major Computer Science conferences and journal scientific committees. He has been the initiator and developer of several software prototypes. Among them, “Semantic Twitter”, an adapted Twitter interface able to post tweets with the concept of semantic hash tag, and “Semantic IoT”, an architecture combining semantics and IoT based on Paraimpu, an IoT platform developed by a local start-up. He is member of DART International Workshop steering committee, on information filtering and retrieval, in collaboration with the University of Cagliari and the University of Bari. Home: http:\/\/www.cristianlai.it Keywords: Information Retrieval, Ontology Engineering, Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Query Building, Network Distributed Applications, Linked Open Data (LOD), Analytics, IoT, Robotics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4152,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[124],"class_list":["post-10243","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-high-performance-and-quantum-computing-biosciences-and-advanced-studies"],"acf":{"name":"Cristian","surname":"Lai","email":"clai@crs4.it","phone":"+39 070 9250348","user_uuid":"e3beba16-99fc-1032-95fe-0030485a3848","personal_page":"http:\/\/www.cristianlai.it","google_scholar_id":"","position":"Technologist","microsoft_academic_id":"","project_coordinator":[{"ID":12684,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:18:21","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:18:21","post_content":"Remote Intelligent Access to Labs in Higher Education (RIALHE) aims to improve the students\u2019 understanding of scientific procedures starting from remote access to real lab experiments followed by collaborative activities using tech platforms. Lab work is a key aspect of scientific education and students can seldom access public and private labs of excellence. While several Erasmus+ projects and national initiatives have focused on digital L&T, our project is innovative in addressing a pedagogical framework (RIALHE) for lab training as a particular field. Despite providing scientific labs, many educational bodies lack the resources to meet the costs of reagents or maintenance. Digitising the hardware components of a Lab is complicated and costly. In the context of virtual labs, where the experiment is simulated, students face situations where aspects of the procedures remain hidden because simulations do not address contingencies or measurement errors. A lab operator needs to address such situations that are present in a real life experiment. Acquiring this ability is an important part of the learning process that is lost in the over-idealized virtual world. An innovative methodology, shared at European level, implies the elaboration of basic competencies including gaining familiarity with cutting edge lab equipment not necessarily accessible to all academic institutions.","post_title":"RIALHE Erasmus","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rialhe-erasmus","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:32:41","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:32:41","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/rialhe-erasmus\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":14976,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:19:43","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:19:43","post_content":"Remote Intelligent Access to Lab in Education NETwork - This project is extending the impact of WeNet with a new application, RIALENET, and testing a real use case scenario in the field of genome analysis (not developed neither tested within the WeNet project yet). This project draws attention to the gap between the productive world and education courses delivered to students during their pathway, where laboratory experimentation is one of the key elements of scientific education.","post_title":"RIALENET","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rialenet","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:33:37","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:33:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/rialenet\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19604,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:21:08","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:21:08","post_content":"The overall objective is to develop a Smart User Experience Platform (UXP) intended for the communication between human and a more pervasive digital world. The DXP development is based on the Digital Transformation (DX) paradigm, a process composed of user or customer oriented technologies. The CRS4's work starts from a deep analysis of the state of the art of Internet of Things\/Internet of Everything devices (smart devices), in order to define a micro-services architecture that can allow to mitigate the currently hardware weaknesses and limits and to guarantee the possibility of creating networks composed of a large number of objects, in line with the objectives expected for the Entando UXP platform. The outcomes of the project include, from one hand, an a high-level architectural model suitable for the integration of the pervasive IoT\/IoE components. From the other, a Smart City vertical application.","post_title":"ENTANDO","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"entando","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:34:56","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:34:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/entando\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":12692,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:18:31","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:18:31","post_content":"RIALE Remote Scientific Technical Laboratories in Europe - RIALE-EU\nThe RIALE-EU project is an extension of the previous project on remotely accessible laboratories to integrate extra-regional innovative processes into the catalog for the benefit of students in the Region of Sardinia. A third teaching strategy is being studied focusing on remote user exercise connected to one of the machines in the lab. Under study specific AI activities to customize the Time line content and navigation modes.","post_title":"RIALE-EU","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"riale-eu","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:32:37","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:32:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/riale-eu\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":11694,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:19:15","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:19:15","post_content":"Il progetto \"Outsiders\" si occupa di povert\u00e0 educativa<\/strong> e propone di agire nella duplice direzione di sostenere e rafforzare la qualit\u00e0 delle relazioni e di alimentare legami sociali fiduciari, moltiplicando i talenti e costruendo capitale sociale. Operativamente si tratta di attivare nel territorio di Cagliari 4 Officine Urbane (Officina Famiglia, Officina Scuola, Officina Bambini e Ragazzi, Officina Comunit\u00e0) e una Base (spazio fisico e relazionale di co-progettazione e innovazione) per trovare soluzioni condivise e multifattoriali al problema della povert\u00e0 educativa, riattivare i contesti educanti dei bambini e dei ragazzi, catalizzare le risorse di un\u2019intera comunit\u00e0.\n\u00a0\nIl CRS4 partecipa al progetto attraverso la creazione di una Cassetta dei Talenti composta da una serie di strumenti tecnologici educativi, con lo scopo di innovare i percorsi di orientamento rivolti ai ragazzi delle scuole secondarie inferiori. Gli insegnanti saranno formati ad utilizzare i tool della Cassetta affinch\u00e9 possano dare un feedback intorno a capacit\u00e0 e talenti di ciascun ragazzo e in quali percorsi formativi sono valorizzati.","post_title":"OUTSIDERS","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"outsiders","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:33:18","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:33:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/outsiders\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":14756,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:19:23","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:19:23","post_content":"","post_title":"RIALE","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"riale","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:33:22","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:33:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/riale\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19585,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:20:35","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:20:35","post_content":"Cagliari 2020 is an industrial research initiative developed in the context of Smart Cities. The project consortium is composed of public and private partners: in addition to CRS4, it includes the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE) of University of Cagliari, INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Vitrociset (large enterprise) and Space (SME). Cagliari 2020 will see also the active involvement of the Municipality of Cagliari and the CTM, the metropolitan public transport company. The project faces the increasing need of tools and technological solutions that can enable the optimization of urban mobility: Cagliari and its metropolitan area represent an ideal case study for the development and experimentation in this scenario, especially due to a public transport management system that already operates at the cutting-edge of industry standards. Through the acquisition of information coming from vehicles circulating in appropriate reference corridors and integrating it with people moving habits, a punctual representation of the urban mobility ecosystem can be obtained. The integration of environmental modeling with the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) developed under Cagliari 2020 will allow the optimization of public and private traffic flows in the urban area, together with pollutant emissions control and reduction. The project aims to provide public organizations with a set of Decision Support Systems based on innovative models that will be developed within the project. Specific levels of information will be made available adopting an \"open data\" approach. This will enable and stimulate the creation of new multisector businesses focused on the development of services for mobility planning and environmental sustainability.","post_title":"CAGLIARI 2020","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cagliari-2020","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:34:22","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:34:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/cagliari-2020\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19652,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:22:39","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:22:39","post_content":"The project ANDASA aims to adapt and transfer the prototype COSEFdeveloped at CRS4 in the artistic and cultural creative industries tomeet the issues highlighted by achieving thethe following objectives: 1. Making possible the knowledge economy in the entertainment industry and the culture creating technological innovations through the transfer and development adaptive and collaborative computing platform for the developmentof the subjects, works, events contributing to increasing culturally Sardinia. 2. Facilitating technological innovation and cultural development of SMEs, strengthen the visibility of their products and the economic development opportunities through the mapping their characteristics and partnership networks. With the appropriate technological tools the events do not die once held but continue to live in a space dedicated digital proof of the know-how of each.The emergence of the knowledge and research process and place them in an infrastructure where most actors converge, giving visibility to the wide cultural networks for promote interdisciplinary research and artistic production, promote contamination between artistic genres, cultural and environmental sustainability of the territories and the sustainability of innovation processes of the languages \u200b\u200bin the arts and culture.","post_title":"ANDASA","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"andasa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:36:26","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:36:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/andasa\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19718,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:24:46","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:24:46","post_content":"GRIDA3: Gestore di RIsorse conDivise per Analisi di dati e Applicazioni Ambientali e' un sistema in rete telematica di risorse e servizi condivisi, basati sull\u2019utilizzo delle tecnologie GRID ed accessibili mediante un\u2019interfaccia WEB amichevole, rivolto ad utenti pubblici e privati operanti nel settore della gestione e pianificazione am bientale.\nGRIDA3 permettera' di eseguire elaborazioni di dati, supportate dagli strumenti applicativi dei GIS (Sistemi Informativi Geografici), e simulazioni multi-modello, basate su metodologie numeriche e tecnologie software consolidate sviluppate dai partner del progetto e da soggetti terzi, nei seguenti campi applicativi:\n