Sezione 1. Dati personali di Fabio Crestani
Fabio Crestani- Full Professor, Facoltà di scienze informatiche
Sede: Facoltà di Lugano, Scienze informatiche
Ufficio: SI-221
Tel: +41 58 666 46 57
Fax: +41 58 666 45 36
Email: fabio.crestani@usi.ch
Sito web: f.crestani.googlepages.com/
Biografia
Fabio Crestani is a full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI since January 2007. Before arriving in Lugano he was a (full) Professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK) since 2000. During that time he was a Visiting Professor at IMAG (France), and spent a year sabbatical at UC Berkeley (USA) and Xerox PARC (USA). In 1997-1999 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow (UK), at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley (USA), and at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK).
Earlier, in 1992-97 he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova (Italy).
Fabio holds a degree in Statistics from the University of Padova (Italy) and an MSc and PhD in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow (UK). His main areas of research are Information Retrieval, Text Mining, and Digital Libraries. He has co-edited 9 books and published over 150 publications in these areas of research. He is Editor-in-Chief of Information Processing and Management (Elsevier) and member of the editorial board of a number of journals.