The continuing advances and increasing pervasiveness of simulation methods and data acquisition and processing tools enable us to measure and characterize natural and artificial objects, environments, and processes in ever greater detail and at ever higher generation rates. The fields of science, engineering, and technology are increasingly defined by data-driven approaches and need scalable solutions to make the most of the vast masses of information available. The study, development, and application of methods and technologies for processing, analyzing, exploring, and sharing massive and\/or complex data are, therefore, at the heart of all strategic research plans, both at the European and National scales and for regional smart specialization.\u00a0
\nCRS4 actively contributes to this field of research and has now achieved a leading role in the national landscape. The institutional project XDATA, funded by the contribution under art. 9 L.R. 20\/2015, aims to consolidate and strengthen the center’s activities in this strategic area and is divided into two parallel strands of activity:<\/p>\n
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\nIncluded in the project are specific activities targeting: research, development, and technology transfer; pilot studies; maintenance of dedicated research and development infrastructure; scientific dissemination; standardization activities; and other activities aimed at achieving greater integration with the scientific community and public and private entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11639,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[99,123],"class_list":["post-12572","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-tecnologie-digitali-en","gruppo-data-intensive-computing-en"],"acf":{"title":"Processing, Analysis, Exploration, and Sharing of Big and\/or Complex Data","acronym":"XDATA ","project_uuid":"d040befc-ab94-11ed-ab26-506b8d36975d","start_date":"01\/01\/2023","end_date":"31\/12\/2026","funder":"RAS - Sardegna Ricerche, contributo ex art 9 L.R. 20\/2015","partners":"","proj_website":"","project_status":"Execution","project_coordinator":[{"ID":10233,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:23:13","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:23:13","post_content":"Enrico Gobbetti is the director of Visual and Data-intensive Computing (ViDiC) at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Italy. He holds an Engineering degree (1989) and a Ph.D. degree (1993) in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), as well as Full Professor Habilitations in Computer Science and Information Processing from the Italian Ministry of University and Research. Prior to joining CRS4, he held research and\/or teaching positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore MD, USA, and the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (NASA\/CESDIS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA. At CRS4, Enrico develops and manages a research program in visual and data-intensive computing supported through institutional, industrial and government grants, including many national and international projects. His research spans many areas of visual and data-intensive computing and is widely published in major journals and conferences. The primary focus is the study and creation of innovative, intelligent, and scalable solutions for acquiring, creating, processing, distributing, exploring, and analyzing complex and\/or massive datasets derived from simulations or measurements of phenomena, objects, environments, or real-world processes. He regularly serves the scientific community through participation in editorial boards, program committees, working groups and steering boards, as well as through the organization and chairing of conferences. 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Since 2000, he became interested in developing architectural solutions for the delivery of Web-Oriented services, promoting the usage of open source technologies in the contexts of high complexity applications. After developing several strategic projects within the Sardinian Region IT infrastructures, and subsequently serving as Director General of Innovation and IT Security for the Sardinia Region, with the responsibility for the Digital Transition, and chairing the Unified Coordination and Monitoring Committee for Ultra-Broadband, he is currently working on issues related to technology transfer to businesses and public administrations. In particular, he is currently focusing on the use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in public\/private innovation ecosystems.","post_title":"Carlino Casari","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"carlino-casari","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 20:10:27","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 18:10:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/carlino-casari\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":10141,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:22:03","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:22:03","post_content":"Fabio Bettio is an electronics engineer, software developer, and technologist specializing in visual computing and scientific visualization. He has strong expertise in GPU-accelerated and web-based rendering, with a solid background in C++, OpenGL\/WebGL, GLSL, and WebXR development. He is a contributor to OpenLIME, an open-source platform for interactive visualization and relightable model rendering in scientific and cultural heritage contexts. In addition to software development, he has extensive experience as a Linux system and HPC cluster administrator. He has developed tools for system and UPS monitoring, implemented automated backup solutions, and manages web infrastructures based on CMSs for research initiatives and international conferences such as Eurographics and EuroVis. His scientific contributions have been published in top-tier journals such as ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Computers & Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), and Solar Energy. 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His research topics are focused on computational hydrology, Geographical Information Systems and development of innovative WEB ICT tools for the management of water and soil resources. He organized international workshops\/conferences and taught advanced courses on hydrological (both superficial and groundwater) modeling at universities. He has tutored several stagers and early stage researchers.","post_title":"Pierluigi Cau","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pierluigi-cau","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 20:10:31","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 18:10:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/pierluigi-cau\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10017,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:26:04","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:26:04","post_content":"Guido Satta, senior researcher at CRS4, received his Laurea (M.Sc.) Degree in Physics from the University of Cagliari, Italy, in July 1993. From 1994 to 1997 he did a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in the same university. In spring 1998 he received his Doctorate degree from the Physical Faculty of the University of Cagliari. Besides the development of an N-order parallel code for the calculation of the electronic properties of solids, he worked on the study of the structural and electronic properties of icosahedral aluminum clusters. From 1999 to 2004 he worked as a Post-doc researcher and then as an Associate researcher at the University of Cagliari. The field of his research was focused on the optical and electronic properties of semiconductors and insulating compounds, including nitrides and new superconductive materials. In 2004 he started to work as an expert researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Italy. At CRS4 he worked on the development and implementation of wave equation migration alghoritms for pre-stack seismic data. Currently he focuses on developing and testing new seismic imaging and inversion techniques in a long term industrial research project. Guido Satta is member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE). He served as referee for Physical Review B and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.","post_title":"Guido Satta","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"guido-satta","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:14:01","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:14:01","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/guido-satta\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10212,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:22:47","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:22:47","post_content":"Roberto Demontis is expert technologist in the Geographic Information Systems Research Program of the DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR AEROSPACE Sector at CRS4 where he has been working since 2000. He got a degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1997.The scopes of research is on GIS (Geographical Information System) related technologies with particular reference to the treatment of environmental data and their correlation with data of other kinds. Uses and develops mainly open source software. He has experience on Big Data, DBMS and the development of WebGis applications and DSS (Decision Support Systems) tools.","post_title":"Roberto Demontis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"roberto-demontis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:10:56","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:10:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/roberto-demontis\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10263,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:23:49","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:23:49","post_content":"Eva Lorrai is expert researcher at CRS4 where she has been working since 1996. She got a degree in civil engineering (transport section) at Cagliari University in 1995. Her research interests are focused on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applied to urban, industrial, tourist and environmental planning, on the use of GIS as Decision Support Systems (DSS), on the integration between GIS and environmental models (numerical and empirical) and on the development of environmental applications based on GIS e GRID technologies. She held several short courses on GIS and has been tutor\/co-advisor for degree and Ph.D thesis, Master and Post-Doc stage. She wrote about 30 scientific publications.","post_title":"Eva Barbara Lorrai","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eva-barbara-lorrai","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:11:58","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:11:58","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/eva-barbara-lorrai\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10315,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:56","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:56","post_content":"Laura Muscas is senior researcher at CRS4 where she has been working since 1992. She got a degree (cum laude) in civil engineering (structural section) at the University of Cagliari in 1990 and a PhD in geo-environmental engineering at the Politecnico of Torino in 1994. In the 1992 she attended the post-graduated courses: Hydrological Modelling of Flow and Pollution in Dry Regions at the Jacob Blaustein International Center (BIC) for Desert Studies of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. \t \t \t \t \tHer research interests are focused on the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology. She has experience on the development of GIS applications and DSS (Decision Support Systems) tools in the urban, industrial, tourist and environmental field; development of environmental applications based on GIS e GRID technologies; integration between GIS and environmental models (numerical and empirical). She held several short courses on GIS and has been tutor for several Stage, Master and Ph.D thesis.","post_title":"Laura Muscas","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"laura-muscas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:12:58","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:12:58","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/laura-muscas\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10024,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:26:00","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:26:00","post_content":"Raffaella holds a Master's degree in Mathematics (University of Cagliari, Italy). She started her experience at CRS4 in 2000, working on her experimental degree thesis in Fluid Dynamics.From 2000 to 2010 she has worked as a software engineer for the ICT Programme, improving her knowledge in distributed applications development (with Java technologies) and Agile Methodologies for software lifecycle management (XP-eXtreme Programming, Scrum, etc.). She entered several research projects publishing articles for both national and international conferences.Since 2008, she has focused her interest on project management and fund raising for scientific research, in particular European funds, programs and agendas, also national and regional. She constantly empowers her knowledge in these fields.From June 2010 to May 2016 she worked as an expert technologist in the CRS4 Project Office, supporting the research teams in project development and partnership building.In 2015 she has spent one year of unpaid leave working as project developer and marketing assistant in Entando (http:\/\/www.entando.com), an Italian IT company active in the field of DXP platforms.In June 2016 she joined the CRS4 \"Smart Environments and Technologies\" research group as expert in project management, proposal development and partnership building in the smart cities sector.She is PMP\u00ae Project Management Professional certified (License 2149870) and CSM\u00ae Certified ScrumMaster\u00ae (Certificant ID 000941328, BadgeCert ID 1067585).","post_title":"Raffaella Sanna","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"raffaella-sanna","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:13:56","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:13:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/raffaella-sanna\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10235,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:23:16","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:23:16","post_content":"Zeno Heilmann received a master's degree in Geophysics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2002. From 2002, he did a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Hubral. During this time, he was employed as a research associate of the WIT Consortium. He took part in the development of a CRS-stack-based time-to-depth imaging workflow and was responsible for its application in a publicly funded geothermal energy project. Besides this, he worked on an extension of the CRS stack software for rugged topography and variable near-surface velocity. In 2007, he received the Doctorate degree from the Physical Faculty of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), awarded magna cum laude. After a short period as post-doc, he started in September 2007 a position as researcher in the Imaging & Numerical Geophysics Group of CRS4. From 2007 to 2014, he took part in an industrial project, working on innovative seismic imaging methods, coherent noise removal and full waveform inversion. From 2008 to 2011, he was also engaged in a publicly funded project developing a multidisciplinary grid-infrastructure for geoscience. In 2014, he joined the newly founded Environmental Near-Surface Geoscience Group. From 2015 to 2017, he was working in the publicly financed SmartGeo project, developing a cloud portal for seismic data-processing. From 2017 to 2021, he applied geoelectrical methods in two publicly funded projects targeting environmental geophysics and precision agriculture. From 2021 to 2023, he took part in an industrial project aiming at designing a production facility for green hydrogen and in an internal project aiming at developing an IoT platform for intelligent solar charging of electric cars. Since 2023, he collaborates in a project using satellite, drone and ground resistivity data for archaeological research.","post_title":"Zeno Heilmann","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"zeno-heilmann","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:11:24","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:11:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/zeno-heilmann\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":9963,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:26:37","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:26:37","post_content":"Dr Varone earned her undergraduate Laurea degree and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from University of Cagliari (IT) and and has worked in the field of renewable energies in the last fifteen years. Presently engaged in fundamental energy and environmental research both from the theoretical and experimental perspectives. As a CRS4 Senior Scientist leads the research project \"Moving CO2 from a liability to an asset\", the aim is to produce technical and economical assessments of relevant technologies for sustainable fuels production from renewable energies and recycled CO2. In past he worked as Senior Scientist in the Earth, Energy and Environment - (E\u00b3) Cluster, under the responsibility of the IASS - Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies - Scientific Director, Prof. Carlo Rubbia, exploring new scientific and technological approaches to transform the current energy technologies, based mainly on the combustion of fossil fuels, into sustainable and climate-friendly solutions. In the trans disciplinary approach to sustainability vision of IASS, the research activity was also oriented to the production and release of technical assessments for policy makers acting in the regulatory framework.","post_title":"Alberto Varone","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alberto-varone","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:14:26","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:14:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/alberto-varone\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10077,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:25:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:25:26","post_content":"Ruggero Pintus studied Electronic Engineering at the University of Cagliari in Italy,where he received his master's degree in April 2003. In 2004, he started working as a researcher at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE). He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 2007, working on Computer Vision algorithms and software applied to Scanning Electron Microscope. He also supported didactic activities. In the same year, he was awarded with an Italian Government Grant, and he worked as a visiting researcher in the Multimedia Communications and Networking Lab at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, California, US. His research focused on photometric stereo techniques applied to conventional flatbed scanners. Since November 2007 he has been part of the Visual Computing group of CRS4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia). His research interests have shifted towards Computer Graphics topics. In particular, the primary focus is the development of algorithms for acquisition, out-of-core processing, time-critical rendering and 3D printing of massive models, mostly applied to large scale color and geometry Cultural Heritage datasets. In 2013 he worked as a Postdoctoral Associate Research Scientist in the Computer Graphics Group at the Yale University. His research focused on 3D model scanning and processing, and on multispectral imaging acquisition and document layout analysis techniques applied to historical, handwritten medieval manuscripts.","post_title":"Ruggero Pintus","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ruggero-pintus","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:13:25","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:13:25","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/ruggero-pintus\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10164,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:22:14","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:22:14","post_content":"Giovanni Busonera received his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Cagliari in 2004 and the Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the same University in 2008. Since 2008 he works at CRS4 as a researcher. His research interests concerned mainly virtualization, distributed programming and hardware acceleration for parallel computing by using GPGPU and FPGA devices. Before joining CRS4, he worked in the Microsoft Research Embedded Group in Redmond developing eBug, a software debugging support for the dynamically reconfigurable processor eMIPS. He also worked on the development of a haplotyping algorithm to perform multi-marker genome wide association study (GWAS). Currently his work deals with signal processing and data analysis for biomedical applications and statistical methods for network traffic modeling.","post_title":"Giovanni Busonera","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"giovanni-busonera","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 20:10:20","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 18:10:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/giovanni-busonera\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10191,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:22:30","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:22:30","post_content":"Degree in Physics at Universit\u00e0 di Cagliari in 1999 with a dissertation on the chaotic behavior of spin glasses (with E. Marinari and later M. Mezard.) Ph.D in Physics obtained at Universit\u00e0 di Cagliari with a dissertation on the creation and the mobility of defects in crystalline semiconductors (with Luciano Colombo and Art Voter.) Post-doc researcher at Physics Department (Universit\u00e0 di Cagliari) (2003-2005), Materials Science at Universit\u00e0 di Milano Bicocca (with Leo Miglio) (2005-2007), CNRS Laboratoire de Mecanique de Lille and CEA Saclay (J.P. Laval, B. Dubrulle) (2007-2008). Since 2008 at CRS4, working on different projects related to concentrated solar power, crystalline structure of ice and, recently, network congestion analysis, feature extraction from biological signals and applications of network theory to social sciences. The research activity is characterized by the use and development of advanced numerical techniques such as Montecarlo methods, multi-objective optimization and statistical mechanics tools.","post_title":"Marco Cogoni","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"marco-cogoni","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 20:10:35","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 18:10:35","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/marco-cogoni\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":9990,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:26:20","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:26:20","post_content":"Costantino Soru is an Analyst Programmer at CRS4, working in the Digital Technologies sector. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Bologna. He has extensive experience in distributed architectures and service integration.","post_title":"Costantino Soru","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"costantino-soru","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:14:14","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:14:14","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/costantino-soru\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10313,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:53","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:53","post_content":"Davide Muroni holds an MSc degree in Computer Technologies from the University of Cagliari and has been working at CRS4 since 2010. He is part of the Digital Technologies sector and is primarily focused on full-stack development and designing automated workflows for data pre- and post-processing. He also collaborates on projects related to webGIS applications, air quality monitoring, satellite data usage and IoT.","post_title":"Davide Muroni","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"davide-muroni","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:12:56","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:12:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/davide-muroni\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10046,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:25:45","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:25:45","post_content":"Guido received his MSc in Electronic Engineering in 2006, and his PhD in Computer Science in 2010, both from University of Cagliari.","post_title":"Guido Porruvecchio","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"guido-porruvecchio","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:13:45","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:13:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/guido-porruvecchio\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10035,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:25:52","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:25:52","post_content":"Alessandro Romanino holds a Master s degree (MSc) in Computer Science Technologies at University of Cagliari with a degree thesis titled Analysis and design of a shared datasapace for collaborative environments. Since 2007 he works as Technologist, Software Engineer Architect in the Information Society Department at CRS4, where he works and contributes to national and international funded research and development (R&D or R+D) projects. He worked for District ICT of Sardegna Ricerche project as Software Engineer Architect of applications such as \"SaStria\" for face recognition, tracking and segmentation of video tracks and \"EasyDesktop\" an User friendly desktop. HandyP@rking Top Down project, which provides intelligent management of parking areas in the city. Smart Cities project like Cagliari Port 2020, Cagliari 2020. His main activities and skills are in design, research and development of modern,scalable, Web-based software architectures and APIs, interoperability of smart devices over the Web, Computer vision, Machine learning, Pattern Matching & Recognition, Image recognition. keywords are Software Engineering Architect, design OOP Architectures, Scalable Web Architectures, REST API design, Distributed Software Systems and applications, Prototyping, Computer Vision, Machine learning, Pattern Matching & Recognition, Test Driven Development, Internet of Things, Microservices Architecture, Java, Python, JavaScript, node.js, MongoDB, DBSql, C, C++, Arduino, Raspberry. He personal interests include hobbies, technology, sports. He is an amateur cyclist.","post_title":"Alessandro Romanino","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alessandro-romanino","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:13:51","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:13:51","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/alessandro-romanino\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":9959,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:26:39","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:26:39","post_content":"I'm a computer scientist and my areas of expertise are HPC, bigdataprocessing and machine learning, with scalability as a common thread.I have a background on parallel computing and foundational problemsmotivated by HPC, which I investigated during my PhD and during myyears as a PostDoc in Vienna.In the latest years I have worked, at the CRS4 research center, tobuild efficient and scalable bigdata and machine learning workflows. Ihave worked with streams of genomic and industrial data (using ApacheKafka and Flink as tools) and, within the DeepHealth European project,to the classification of gigapixel medical images, using bothTensorflow and the specialized EDDL ML library. In this context I havea built a scalable pipeline to efficiently manage datasets via the useof Apache Spark and Cassandra.","post_title":"Francesco Versaci","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"francesco-versaci","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:14:28","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:14:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/francesco-versaci\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n