Stefano Ceri

Stefano Ceri is full professor of Database Systems at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI), Politecnico di Milano; he has been visiting professor at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University between 1983 and 1990. He was the chairman of the Computer science section of DEI (1992-2004). He has been chairman of LaureaOnLIne, a fully online curriculum in Computer Engineering (2004-2008). He is vice-chairman (representing Politecnico di Milano) of the Executive board of Alta Scuola Politecnica, a school of excellence for master-level students which is jointly organized by Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino (2007-2010).

His research interests are focused on:

  • extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules, object orientation, and XML query languages.
  • design methods for data-intensive WEB sites, stream reasoning, search computing.

He is responsible of several EU-Funded Projects projects at Politecnico di Milano, including W3I3: "Web-Based Intelligent Information Infrastructures" (1998-2000), WebSI: "Data Centric Web Services Integrator" (2002-2004) Cooper: "Cooperative Open Environment for Project Centered Learning" (2005-2007) , ProLearn "Network of Excellence in Professional Learning" (2005-2008), and LarKC "Large Knowledge Collider" (2008-2011). In july 2008 he has been awarded an IDEAS Advanced Grant, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), on "Search Computing".

He is co-inventor of WebML a model for the conceptual design of Web applications (US Patent 6,591,271, July 2003) and co-founder of Web Models, a startup of Politecnico di Milano focused on WebML commercialization by means of the product WebRatio. In 2006 he has won an IBM Faculty Award and led a joint team of scholars partecipating the Semantic Web Challenge.

He was Associate Editor of ACM-Transactions on Database Systems and IEEE-Transactions on Software Engineering, and he is currently an associated editor of several international journals. He is co-editor in chief of the book series "Data Centric Systems and Applications" (Springer-Verlag).

He is author of several articles on International Journals and Conference Proceedings, and is co-author of the books:

  • Distributed Databases: Principles and Systems (McGraw-Hill, 1984)
  • Logic Programming and Databases (Springer-Verlag, 1990)
  • Conceptual Database Design: an Entity-Relationship Approach (Benjamin-Cummings, 1992)
  • Active Database Systems (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1995)
  • Advanced Database Systems (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1997)
  • The Art and Craft of Computing (Addison-Wesley, 1997)
  • Designing Database Applications with Objects and Rules: the IDEA Methodology (Addison-Wesley, 1997)
  • Database Systems: Concepts, Languages, and Architecture (McGraw-Hill, 1999)
  • Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002)

List of Publications (from DBLP site).

He teaches "Database Systems I", "Database Systems II", and yearly organizes the teaching of "Advanced Feaures of Information Systems". Materials covering the three courses is available in the CorsiOnLine portal. Database Systems I (query languages & design) Database Systems II (transaction management and advanced topics) Advanced Features of Information Systems (web information systems)

Teaching material for courses is available in the CorsiOnLine portal.

Research projects and thesis proposals can be found on the DBGroup Web Site.

He runs marathons (9 editions in Milano, and then New York, San Francisco, Luxor, Venice, Rome, Florence) and loves classic and jazz music. He is the coordinator of the Scientific Committee of Associazione Lombarda Fibrosi Cistica.