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Monica Maria Lucia SEBILLO Curriculum

MONICA M. L. SEBILLO, Associate Professor, PhD

Monica Sebillo is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno. Her research interests include geographic databases and information systems, Human-GIS interaction and geographic information engineering. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Applied Math and Computer Science from UNINA. Monica is involved in many international and national research projects and has several collaborations with professors from Italian and foreign universities. She also collaborates with companies and international organizations to applied research in the field of geographic information.

EDUCATION

Laurea degree in "Scienze dell'Informazione" (magna cum laude), 1992.

Degree of Fourth International Summer School for Computer Science Researchers, 1995.

PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 1998.

TEACHING (current) at the Department of Computer Science:

Basi Dati (First-cycle degree in Computer Science)

Tecnologie per la GeoInformatica (First-cycle degree in Computer Science)

Geographic Information Systems (Second-cycle degree in Computer Science)

Intelligent Web (Second-cycle degree in Computer Science)

FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION: Databases and Geographic Information Systems.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: geographic databases and information systems (spatial data, opendata, volunteered geographic information, geovisual analytics, continuous data, Internet GIS, GIServices), Human-GIS interaction (geographic mobile applications, geovisualization, visual summaries), geographic information engineering.

HONORS OR DISTINCTIONS

Member of the ICT Expert Registry for the Italian Ministry of Economic Development

Member of the ICT Expert Registry for the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research

Membership: ACM senior member, AM/FM - President and Executive Committee member (Automated Mapping / Facilities Management Geographic Information Systems), ASITA – President and Executive Committee member (Federazione delle Associazioni Scientifiche per le Informazioni Territoriali e Ambientali), EUROGI – Executive Committee member (European Umbrella Geographic Information). ICA member (International Carthographic Association).

Referee for several international journals and conferences (recent):

  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
  • Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Academic Press.
  • International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, World Scientific Publishing.
  • Geoinformatica, Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • International Journal of Geographic Information Science
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Digital Earth
  • Ecological Informatics, Elsevier
  • Government Information Quarterly
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • PsychNology Journal

Member of several PhD Academic Boards.

Program Chair of international conferences.

Scientific director of the LabGIS laboratory (member of the Copernicus Academy)

Leader of the "Women in GI" EUROGI focus group

Advisor of PhD students, tutor of undergraduate students

Scientific coordinator of research follows, research assistants, and post-doc personnel.

Scientific coordinator of the AMFM Copernicus Relay.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES (recent)

  • Member of the UNI / CT 526 "UNINFO APNR-ICT" Commission and UNI / CT 526 / GL 04 (with AMFM / GIS Italia and Stati Generai dell'Innovazione) for the establishment of the "Professional Profile on Geographic Information"
  • Guest Co-editor (with prof. Robert Laurini) dello Special Issue on GeoVisualization per il Journal of Visual Languages and Sentient Systems, KSI Research Inc. and KSI Graduate School.
  • Scientific representative for the Memorandun of Understanding with the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Statale “Genovesi-DaVinci” in Salerno
  • Scientific coordinator of the GISDAY@UNISA - Edizione 2015 del GIS Day, 18 Novembre 2015
  • Program Chair of the Special Session on "Visual languages for citizen empowerment and territorial intelligence" (with Giuliana Vitiello and Robert Laurini) nella 20th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'14), Pittsburgh University Center, Pittsburgh, USA
  • Co-chair of the Workshop "Inspire: prepararsi all'atterraggio. Atto II" nell'ambito del 50° Congresso Nazionale AICA 2013, Fisciano (SA), 20 Settembre 2013.
  • Co-chair del Comitato Organizzatore dell'edizione 2013 del Congresso Nazionale AICA, Fisciano (SA), September 18-20, 2013.
  • Organization Committee member of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Capri Island (Naples), 21-25 Maggio 2012
  • Organization Committee member of a series of webinars "INSPIRE come opportunità: armonizzazione dei dataset per l'interoperabilità a livello regionale ", 23 Ottobre, 20 Novembre, 11 Dicembre 2013
  • Scientific Director of the Hackathon Online "Trasformazione di dataset spaziali open conformemente a INSPIRE", February 25, 2014

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS (recent)

01/10/2022 – 31/12/2024: scientific coordinator and WP Leader of the Local Operating Unit UNISA for the project “GeoSciences: un’infrastruttura di ricerca per la Rete Italiana dei Servizi Geologici - GeoSciences IR”. Reforms and Investments under the Recovery and Resilience Plan – NextGenerationEU. Intervention field 6; DESI dimension 4; Mission 4 – “Education and Research”; Component 2; Action 3.1.1 “Creation of new research infrastructures, strengthening of existing ones and their networking for Scientific Excellence under Horizon Europe.

13/9/2022 – 31/12/2022: scientific coordinator of the Agreement for research activities on “Modellazione dei dati raccolti da sorgenti differenziate verso i modelli dati inspire e definizione di modelli estesi per l'armonizzazione dei contenuti” funded by ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale.

03/05/2021 – 30/12/2022: project coordinator “Applicazioni di Tecnologie IOT per la Valorizzazione della Filiera della Nocciola di Giffoni IGP nelle Colline Salernitane - TIOT GIFF”. PSR Campania 2014-2020. SSL GAL Colline Salernitane, T.I. 19.2.1 “Strategie di Sviluppo Locale”; Tipologia di Intervento 16.1.1 az2 “Sostegno per la costituzione e l’avvio dei gruppi operativi”.

10/12/2020 – 31/12/2021: scientific coordinator of the Agreement for research activities on “Definizione e realizzazione di modelli e protocolli per l'interoperabilità dei servizi e standardizzazione dei dati strutturati e non strutturati raccolti da sorgenti differenziate” finanziamento ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale.

20/7/2020 – 30/11/2020: project coordinatot “La valorizzazione della filiera della “Nocciola di Giffoni IGP” tramite strategie IoT - GiffIoT”. PSR Campania 2014-2020. SSL GAL Colline Salernitane, T.I. 19.2.1 “Strategie di Sviluppo Locale”; Tipologia di Intervento 16.1.1 az1 “Sostegno per la costituzione e l’avvio dei gruppi operativi”.

20/3/2019 – 28/12/2023: associated investigator of the local unit UNISA for the project “Smart Open Urban-rural iNnovation Data (SOUND): a project for Smart Specialisation Strategies and Territorial built in an open innovation platform for economic regeneration” PRIN 2017, Funded by MIUR.

4/6/2018 - 4/6/2019: scientific coordinator of the Operational Agreement AO.2 on “ Tema di ricerca e sviluppo di piattaforme innovative e nuovi strumenti e metodologie per l'analisi delle informazioni provenienti da fonti aperte – funded by Consiglio Regione Campania

21/4/2017 - 31/12/2017: scientific director of the project "Un Digital Knowledge Ecosystem per Servizi di Intelligenza Territoriale" - Funding from the Ministry of Education

07/03/2014 - 30/09/2016: coordinator (AMFM member) of the Task 4.1 for the project “GI-N2K”, Geographic Information: Need to Know – Towards a more demand-driven geospatial workforce education/training system" funded by EU Erasmus Lifelong Learning Program.

1/11/2009 – 31/03/2011: leader of the 8.2 task “Validation Methodology” for the Plan4all project funded by EC - eContentPlus

5/10/2007 - 4/10/2008: scientific director for the project “Interoperabilità di dati geografici eterogenei. MAPZoo come strumento avanzato di monitoraggio e pianificazione ambientale (Interoperability of heterogeneous geographic data. MAPZOO, an advanced tool for environmental monitoring and planning)”, funded by the Campania Region.

REPRESENTATIVE SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS (recent):

  • Robert Laurini, INSA de Lyon, Francia
  • Athula Ginige, University of Western Sidney, Australia
  • Michela Bertolotto, School of Computer Science & Informatics, Dublin
  • Sandro Bimonte, Irstea, France

Co-authors of publications in international journals.

Co-authors of papers appeared in international conference proceedings.