Nicola Leone#
| Membership Number: | 5142 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mat.unical.it/~leone |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9742-1252 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/leone.unical/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - Present Full Professor of Computer Science, The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The University of Calabria
- 2008 - 2018 Coordinator of the PhD Program in Mathematics and Informatics
- 2008 - 2018 Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
- 2012 - 2018 Member of the Academic Senate
- 2009 - 2013 Director of the PhD School in Systems Engineering, Informatics, Mathematics, and Operation Research.
- 2000 – 2008 Chair of The Computer Science Bachelor and Master’s Degree Program
- 1995 – 2000 Professor of Database Systems, The Institute of Information Systems, The Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), Austria
- 1992 – 1995 Researcher at CNR (National Research Council), based at the ISI (Istituto per la Sistemistica e l'Informatica) Institute, Rende, Italy
- 1986 – 1991 Research Assistant at CRAI (Consortium for Research and Application of Computer Science), Rende, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Deductive databases
- Semantic web
- Database theory
- Answer set programming
- Ontologies
- Artificial intelligence
- Computational logic
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Honorary Professor at Vienna University of Technology - Vienna, Austria, October 14, 2019
- 2018 Test-of-Time Award at the 34th edition of the International Conference on Logic Programming – ICLP'18, Oxford, UK, July, 2018
- 2017 Best Student Paper Award (with PhD student Giovanni Amendola) at the 33rd International Conference on Logic Programming - ICLP'17, Melbourne, Australia, August, 2017
- 2015 Best Paper Award at the 31st International Conference on Logic Programming - ICLP'15, Cork Ireland, September, 2015
- 2012 EurAI Fellow, elected fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, Montpellier, France, August, 2012
- 2009 ACM-PODS Alberto O.Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for 2009, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., June, 2009
- CIVIC HONOURS
- 2018 Prize Citta` del Sole for Scientific Research 2018., Rende, Italy, 2018
- 2017 Prize Cedro della Riviera for Scientific Research 2017, Santa Maria del Cedro, Italy, 2017
- 2016 Prize Pericle D’Oro for Scientific Research 2016, Ardore, Italy, 2016
- 2013 Prize "La Calabria nel mondo" for 2013, Rome, Italy, 2013
- 2011 Prize Galarte 2011 for Science – supported by the President of Italian Republic, San Fili, Italy, 2011
- 2011 Prize The City of Diamante Civic Award for the excellence of research activities, Diamante, Italy, 2011
