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Education and Innovation in Embedded Systems Design

USI Università della Svizzera italiana, USI Faculty of Informatics, Advanced Learning and Research Institute USI Università della Svizzera italiana USI Faculty of Informatics USI Advanced Learning and Research Institute

Tanca Letizia

Position Professor
Institution Politecnico di Milano
Address Ed. 20 - Via Ponzio, 20133 MILANO, Italy
E-mail letizia.tanca@polimi.it
Homepage Personal website

Letizia Tanca studied Mathematics at the University of Naples, where she obtained her Master's degree in Mathematical Logic and her Ph.D. in Applied Maths and Computer Science in 1988. Meanwhile, she also worked for four years as a software engineer in two Telecommunication companies. Later, she was with Politecnico di Milano first as a research associate and then as an associate professor.  She joined the University of Verona in 1995 and stayed there as the chair of the Computer Science course until 1998. Letizia Tanca is currently with Politecnico di Milano again, as a full professor. She has held the chair of the degree and master courses in Computer Science and Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Leonardo campus, from 2000 to 2006, and currently chairs the Computer Science and Engineering Area of her department (DEIB). She has taught and teaches courses on Databases, the Foundations of Computer Science, and Information Systems Technologies. She is the author of about one hundred and fifty papers on databases and database theory, published in international journals and conferences, and of the book ``Logic Programming and Databases'', coauthored with S. Ceri and G. Gottlob. More recently, she has edited the book "Semantic Web Information Management". She has been the local leader of several national and international projects. Her research interests have  ranged over all database theory, especially on deductive, active and object oriented databases, graph-based languages for databases,  the semantics of advanced database and information systems, representation and querying of semistructured information. Her most recent research interests concern context-based  personalization  in  databases and in information systems, and data management in pervasive systems. On the last topics she has  offered several PhD courses and talks and has delivered  a keynote talk at ACM SAC 2012. Letizia Tanca has been a referee for several top international journals, and a member of the program committee of a large number of international conferences. She is currently the representative of her department at the Informatics Europe association, a member of the Steering Committee of the Informatics Europe Department Evaluation Initiative and a member of the expert pool of the EQANIE european association. She has been the conference Chair of the ECSS 2011 (European Computer science Summit). She has recently contributed to an Informatics Europe Report on Experimentation in Informatics.