Amelia Giuseppina NOBILE | Curriculum

Amelia G. Nobile graduated in Information Science at the University of Salerno in 1978. From 1979 to 1982 she has been a recipient of a research fellowship of the Italian National Research Council; from 1982 to 1987 she has served as Ricercatore Universitario in the Faculty of Science of Salerno University, and from 1987 to 1990 as an Associate Professor of Cybernetics and Information Theory in the same Faculty. Then, for three years starting in October 1990 she has been full Professor of Pattern Recognition at the Faculty of Science of University of Udine. Since November 1993 she is full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Salerno. Currently, she is a member of the Department of Computer Science. Until 2012, she has been also a member of the Advisory Board of the Graduate School in Computational and Information Sciences at Naples University.

Her research interests include theory and simulation of stochastic processes with applications to biomathematical modeling and queuing systems. Her research has spanned throughout the years on the following themes:

(i) design and analysis of probabilistic models

(ii) theoretical studies on Markov and Gaussian stochastic processes

(iii) development of algorithms for determining first-passage-time probability densities and of its statistics in one or more dimensions.

A special care has been paid by her to the formulation, analysis and comparison of various probabilistic models suitable to describe neuronal systems, as well as adaptive service systems and populations growth models in random environment. To analyze and use the proposed models of growth, queues and neuronal systems she had to face various problems of both theoretical and computational nature, with the aim to pinpointing the essential features suitable to characterize wide classes of stochastic processes. Her research has been also focussed on the design of efficient algorithms to evaluate first-crossing probability densities in the presence of generally time-dependent boundaries as well as the moments of first passage time for diffusion and Gauss stochastic processes. By means of numerical and simulation procedures and by analyzing the obtained numerical results, she has been led to formulate some interesting conjectures on the asymptotic behaviour of probability densities for Markov and Gauss processes.

Her long-dated collaboration with scientists of some Italian and foreign universities, and her participation in numerous international meetings and workshops have been particularly fruitful and stimulating for pursuing the above sketched research. As the responsible of the Salerno Research Unit she has benefited of research grants of Salerno University, of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Scientific Research (for instance, the PRIN 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2008 grants). She has also taken part to carry out a Italy-Japan 5year-long joint research program under the direction of Professors L.M. Ricciardi (the national Coordinator of the Project) and T. Yanagida of Osaka University, with the sponsorship of Japan Science and Technology Corporation.

The main obtained scientific results are presented in more than 100 papers that have appeared in international scientific journals or presented in international meetings and published in full in the Proceedings. She has co-organized various international Meetings among which are:

- “International Workshop on First Passage Time Problems and Applications” (Università di Napoli Federico II, 1993);

- “BIOCOMP2002: Topics in Biomathematics and Related Computational Problems at the Beginning of the Third Millennium” (Vietri sul Mare, 2002);

- “BIOCOMP2005: Diffusion processes in Neurobiology and Subcellular Biology" (Vietri sul Mare, 2005);

- “BIOCOMP2007: Collective Dynamics: Topics on Competition and Cooperation in the Biosciences" (Vietri sul Mare, 2007);

- “Biocomp 2012: Mathematical Modeling and Computational Topics in Biosciences - Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Luigi M. Ricciardi (1942 - 2011) (Vietri sul Mare, 2012).