Curriculum Vitae and studiorum in Italiano:  cv2021

BORN: March 13, 1967 in Taranto (Italy)
NATIONALITY: Italian.

EDUCATION
1989 Degree in Computer Science at the University of Bari (Italy).

POSITIONS
2018-.. Full Professor, Department of Computer Science (DCS), University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy) (UNIBA).
2000-2017 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics (DMAT), UNIBA.
1990-2000 Research assistant, DMAT, UNIBA.
1997-1998 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Parallel Algorithm Group, Centre Europeen de Reserche et de Formation Avancee en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS), Toulouse (France) supported by the European Community (Marie Curie – Training and Mobility of Researchers, Contract No:ERBFMBICT961643) (May 1, 1997 -April 30, 1998)

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES:
Her research activity concerns numerical methods for the solution of differential equations, with both initial and boundary conditions, numerical methods for differential algebraic equations, method of lines for partial differential equations, stability of algorithms in linear algebra, sequential and parallel numerical methods for the solution of large linear systems. She is particularly involved in the development and maintenance of software for the numerical solution of differential equations. She is author of more than 70 scientific publications on international journal and of one book. She delivered more than 30 lectures at international congresses.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:
* Honorary Fellowship, the highest distinction of the European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences, Engineering and Technology, 2014
* Computing Review, Best of 2012 notable book for the book “Solving Differential Equations in R”, with K. Soetaert, J.R. Cash, http://computingreviews.com/recommend/bestof/notableitems_2012.cfm

MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS
* 2015-… associate editor, international journal “Opuscula Mathematica”
* 2014-…, associate editor, international journal “Applied Mathematics and Computations”
* 2021-…, associate editor, international journal “Journal of Computational Mathematics and Data Science”

 

SPECIAL ISSUES
* 2012, guest editor, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 236 (16),2012 (with L. Brugnano)
* 2006, guest editor, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 18 (2), 2006 (with T. Politi), proceedings of the International Workshop on the Technological Aspects of Mathematics: advances in computing and software development for Differential Equations, Bari December 18-20, 2002
* 2002, guest editor, Numerical Algorithms 31 no. 1-4, 2002 (with J. C. Butcher, W. H. Enright, G. Soderlind e P. J. van der Houwen), proceedings of the Workshop on Numerical Ordinary Differential Equations (ANODE 2001)

COLLECTIVE SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
* jointly scientific coordinator of the Unit of the DMAT UNIBA, industrial research project MAIA “Monitoraggio attivo dell’infrastruttura” PON Research and Innovation 2014-2020 (code: ARS01 00353). Area of specialization: “Sustainable mobility”. Lead Partner: MER MEC SPA; (2020-…)
* jointly scientific coordinator of the Unit of the DMAT UNIBA, industrial research project “CLOSE to the Earth” PON Research and Innovation 2014-2020 (code: ARS01_00141) . Area of specialization: “Aerospace”. Lead Partner: DTA-Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale. (2019-…)
* scientific coordinator of the numerical analysis group of the Computer Science department project RPASInAir “Sistemi Aeromobili a Pilotaggio Remoto nello spazio aereo non segregato per servizi” PON Research and Innovation 2014-2020 (code: ARS01 00820). Specialization area: “Aerospace”. Lead Partner: DTA-Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale. (2019-…)
* scientific coordinator of the executive protocol with Planetek Italia s.r.l. of the “Convenzione Quadro tra il Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, e Planetek Italia s.r.l.”(2015), research activity: “analysis and development of new methods for real-time processing of hyperspectral data cubes” (2014-2015)
* scientific coordinator of the research contract INDAM and Ligi Tecnologie medicali: “DMathematical model in 3D of the representation of the eyey surface using spline” (2015-2016)
* scientific coordinator of the Unit of the DMAT UNIBA if the project DAISY-NET “Logistica Integrata” bando Industria Made in Italy MISE, DM 00084MI01 (2014-2015)
* scientific coordinator of the project Test Set for BVP solvers https://archimede.dm.uniba.it/~bvpsolvers/testsetbvpsolvers/ (2012-…);
* jointly scientific coordinator of the Unit of the DMAT UNIBA, industrial research project 2011, PON02-00576-3333585, PON02-00675 “MASSIME – Sistemi di sicurezza meccatronici innovativi (cablati e wireless) per applicazioni ferroviarie, aerospaziali e robotiche” (2012-2015). Lead Partner: MEDIS Distretto Meccatronico Regionale della Puglia;
* scientific coordinator of the cooperation program between DMAT UNIBA and Mathematical department of the University of Cairo (Egypt) “Numerical simulation of real life problems” (2012);
* scientific coordinator project of the DMAT UNIBA“Metodi numerici innovativi per la soluzione di Equazioni Differenziali e Sistemi Lineari” (2009-2010);
* scientific coordinator project of the DMAT UNIBA “Software matematico: metodi e tecniche innovative per Equazioni Differenziali” financial support for COFIN-PRIN 2008 projects not founded with score not less than 48/60;
* scientific coordinator of the project of the DMAT UNIBA “Software matematico: metodi e tecniche innovative per Equazioni Differenziali” financial support for COFIN-PRIN 2007 projects not founded with score not less than 45/60;
* scientific coordinator of the project of the DMAT UNIBA “Software matematico: metodi e tecniche innovative per Equazioni Differenziali” financial support for COFIN-PRIN 2006 not founded with score not less than 45/60;
* scientific coordinator of the unit of the DMAT UNIBA of the project MIUR-PRIN 2004 “Metodi e tecniche innovative per Equazioni Differenziali” (2004-2006).
* scientific coordinator of GNCS-INDAM project “Problemi test e codici per equazioni differenziali” (2003-2004-2005).
* scientific coordinator of the INDAM project “Testset for Initial Value Problems Solvers” (2002-2005).
* scientific coordinator of the project Test Set for IVP solvers https://archimede.dm.uniba.it/~testset/testsetivpsolvers/ (2001-…)
* scientific coordinator of the CASPUR project“Precondizionatori paralleli per la fluidodinamica computazionale”, (1999-2001).

SELECTED PROJECTS AS PARTECIPANT
* “Numerical methods in optimization and ODEs”, GNCS-INDAM project, coordinator S. Yaroslav (2018-2019);
* “AMIDHERA: Sistemi avanzati mini-invasivi di diagnosi e radioterapia” PON02_00576_3319762. Lead Partner: MEDIS Distretto Meccatronica Regionale della Puglia.(2014-2015);
* “Sensori e micro-lavorazioni laser per le applicazioni motoristiche e manifatturiere”, Industrial research project 2008, coordinator: prof. Gaetano Scamarcio, Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica dell’Università di Bari,(2010);
* “Metodi BVM (Boundary Value Methods) per problemi di evoluzione”, PRIN 1999, Coordinator: D. Trigiante (1999-2001);
* “Metodi Numerici per Equazioni Differenziali e l’Algebra Lineare”, PRIN 1997, Coordinator: R. Valeria (1997-1999);
* “Sistemi informatici e calcolo parallelo”, CNR project. subproject: “Calcolo scientifico per grandi sistemi” C coordinator D. Trigiante (1993-1994);
* Member of several UNIBA local projects from 1990.

INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITY:
* Director of the INdAM research unit of Bari (2002-…) http://archimede.dm.uniba.it/indam/
* Member of the Advisory Committee for Doctoral Studies in Informatics and Mathematics, Università degli studi di Bari (2013-..).
* Member of the Advisory Committee for Doctoral Studies in Mathematics, Università degli studi di Bari (2009-2013).

CONGRESS AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
* International Conference on SCIentific Computation and Differential Equations, SciCADE 2013, Valladolid (Spagna), September 16-20, 2013; Invited by the scientific commitee, organizer of the minisymposium “Software issues”, in collaboration with L. Randez;
* International Conference on SCIentific Computation and Differential Equations, SciCADE 2007, Saint-Malo (Francie), July 9-13, 2007; Invited by the scientific commitee, organizer of the minisymposium “Software issues” in collaboration with L. Brugnano.
*International Workshop on the Technological Aspects of Mathematics II Computational Methods and Mathematical Software, April 1-3, 2004 Hotel Belvedere – Montecatini Terme (Pistoia-Italy)
* International Conference on SCIentific Computation and Differential Equations, SciCADE 2003,Trondheim (Norwey) June 30 – July 4 2003;Invited by Prof. Brynjulf Owren, organizer of the minisymposium “Software issues”.
* Workshop on Numerical Methods for Evolutionary Problems 17 – 21 September 2001, Hotel D’Amato, Peschici, Italy
* International Workshop on Computational Codes: the Technological Aspects of Mathematics – advances in computing and software development for Differential Equations, December 18-20, 2002 Università di BARI – Politecnico di BARI

SOFTWARE
* deTestSet: R package http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/deTestSet/index.html.
* bvpSolve: R package http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/bvpSolve/index.html.
* QIBSH++: bs hermite quasi-interpolation c++ package.
* TOM: MATLAB function for the solution of Boundary Value Problems.
* GAM, GAMD: Fortran90 subroutine for the solution of Ordinary Differential Equations and Differential Agebraic Equations.

CONFERENCES AS PLENARY SPEAKER
* International Conference and Summer School NUMTA-2019 “Numerical Computation: Theory and Algorithms”, June,16-20 2019,Isola Capo Rizzuto,Crotone, Italia.
* International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2014), Rodos, Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Grece.
* ICCAM2010 International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Leuven (Belgio), Julay, 5/9 2010.
* ANODE-2001, Auckland (New Zealand) January, 8-12 2001.