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Curriculum Vitae Dr. Eng. Raffaele de Amicis E-mail: [email protected] Skype: rda_gt PERSONAL DETAILS Citizenship: Italian EDUCATION 2001: Doctorate in Design and Methods of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Faculty of Engineering; 1997: Professional Engineer License, Italian Charter of Engineers; 1996: Master in Mechanical Engineering, specialized on Mechanics of Materials, University of Calabria, Faculty of Engineering; SCIENTIFIC CAREER 2016- : Associate Professor, EECS School, Oregon State University, USA 2003-2016: Managing Director Fondazione Graphitech - Center for Advanced Computer Graphics Technologies, Trento, Italy. 2003-2016: Member of the ICT Doctoral School of the University of Trento, Italy. The ICT International Doctoral School was founded in 2001 with its main goal to create experts in Information and Communication Technologies. 2003-2016: Consulting Professor in undergraduate and graduate courses in Computer Science at the Department of Information and Communication Technology of the University of Trento, Italy. 2005-2014: Member of the Experts Board Panel for Mathematics and Information Technology and Industrial and Information Engineering of the Italian Committee for Evaluation of Research of the Ministry of Education. 2001-2002: Senior Researcher, Interactive Graphics Systems Group, Computer Science Department, University of Darmstadt. 2000-2001: Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics IGD, Darmstadt, Germany. 1997-2001: Doctoral student, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna. 1997-1999: Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Calabria. 1/33 1996-1999: Research Assistant, Molecular Biology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Calabria. 1994-1996: Assistant, Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Calabria. MANAGEMENT POSITIONS 2010-2016: Vice-President of the Board of Directors at GraphicsMedia.net - International Network. GraphicsMedia.Net is a non-profit international organization founded in 2010. It coordinates the activities of its members in research and development, technology transfer, and xploitation in Computer Graphics, Multimodal-Multimedia Technologies, and Visual Interactive Digital Media & 3D Video Technologies. 2006-2008: Chairman of the Steering Committee of the INI-GraphicsNet Foundation. 2004-2008: Member of the Board of Trustees of the INI-GraphicsNet Foundation, the International Network of Institutions for advanced education, training, and R&D in Computer Graphics technology, systems, and applications. 2004-2006: Vice-Chairman of the Steering Committee of the INI-GraphicsNet Foundation. 2003-:2008 Member of the Steering Committee of the INI-GraphicsNet Foundation. 2002-2003 Strategic Management for International research coordination, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD), Darmstadt. TEACHING 2015-2016: 3D Game Design and Development at the ICT International Doctoral School, University of Trento. 2013-2016: Stepping into Mixed Reality at the ICT International Doctoral School, University of Trento. 2014: Mixed and Augmented Reality DIGIPAT, University of Napoli. 2004-2011: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics at the ICT International Doctoral School, University of Trento. 2004-2010: Laboratory of computer graphics, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Trento. 2004-2007: Advanced Informatics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento 2004-2006: Computer Aided Design, Lecture Series, Faculty of Architectural Engineering, University of Trento. 2001: Virtual Reality for Industrial Applications, Elasis - FIAT Research Center, SCpA, University of Naples Federico II. 1997: Technical Documentation Specialists, University of Calabria, Faculty of Engineering. 2/33 1994: Multimedia specialist, Ministry of Labor, University of Calabria. 1994: Documentalists specialist, Ministry of Labor, University of Calabria. 1994: Training for operators of interactive museums, Ministry of Labor, University of Calabria. HONORS AND AWARDS 2015: Best paper award at 8th international KES conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services, “c-Space: A Mobile Framework for the Visualization of Spatial-temporal 3D Models”. 2011: Best paper award at IEEE Conference on Communication, Science & Information Engineering, London, “Development of Simulation System for Air-Pollution Emergency Management" 2011: Best paper award at InterSymp 2011, Baden Baden, Germany, "Integration of System Simulation and Geographical Information Processing for the Air-Pollution Emergency Situations Control and Decision Making". 2007: Best paper award 2006 and honorable mentions, INI-GraphicsNet. “Verba Volant Scripta Manent, a false axiom within virtual environments. A semi-automatic tool for retrieval of semantics understanding for speech enabled VR applications”. 2003: Best paper award 2003, 3rd place, INI-GraphicsNet. “Spacedesign: A Mixed Reality Workspace for Aesthetic Industrial Design”. 1999: Winner of the “Leonardo” Fellowship, Industrial Application Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD), Darmstadt. INVITED TALKS 2016: “SUNSHINE- Smart urban services for higher energy efficiency”, at “Smart Mediterraneo Best practices, innovation and pilot projects in smart grid development in the Mediterranean region”, Bari, Italy. 2015: “Technology inspiring creativity and vice versa.”, at “Second Audio Visual Gestalt Workshop”, Lisbon, Portugal. 2015: “Enhancing resilience of communities and territories through smart technologies.”, at “NATO CAX Forum 2015.”, Vicenza, Italy. 2015: “i-City.”, at “I-Scope Final Conference.”, Roma, Italy. 2013: “Web3D Geospatial Portrayal.”, at “WEB3D.”, San Sebastian, Spain. 2012: “Interoperable Smart City services through an Open Platform for urban Ecosystems.”, at “Future Internet Assembly”, Dublin, Ireland. 3/33 2012: “Another Earth: a distributed knowledge about the Earth current challenge and perspective”, at “Defining FET research topics supporting the ICT challenges of mineral extraction under extreme geo-environmental conditions.”, Brussels, Belgium. 2012: “Interoperable Smart City services through an Open Platform for urban Ecosystem.”, at “INSPIRE 2013: The Green Renaissance”, Firenze , Italy. 2011: “Future trends Geo Intelligence”, at “GEO-VIII Plenary meeting”, Istanbul, Turkey. 2011: “BRISEIDE”, at “Workshop at INSPIRE Conference 2011”, Edinburgh, UK. 2011: “Time@GI”, Workshop at INSPIRE Conference 2010, Cracow, Poland. 2010: “Geospatial Intelligence” at, Geospatial Intelligence Summit”, Vienna, Austria. 2010: “Future trends on Conputer Graphics”, Inauguration for the Master on “Tecniche di Realtà Virtuale nel Processo di Sviluppo del Prodotto”, University of Palermo , Italy. 2009: “Challenges on GeoSpatial Visual Analytics”, 7th Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference, Verona , Italy. 2009: “High-level Round Table on Public administration and public investment priorities: ICTs and basic service delivery for marginalized populations” invited speaker at AFRICOMM 2009, 1st International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, Maputo, Mozambique. 2008: “Geo-visual analytics for land planning and design”, Virtual Concept 2008, 8-10 October 2008, Beijing, China. 2007: “Interoperable Networked Service‐based infrastructure for Interactive Environmental Modelling and monitoring”, Final Workshop “ECOTER”, development of a prototype system for sharing information related to acts of terrorism to the environment, agriculture and water systems. UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice, July 2007. 2006: “Current scenario vs Radical virtualisation”, Workshop on Collaborative environments in the manufacturing sector. 17 March 2006, Brussels. 2006: “Advanced and Innovative Models And Tools for the development of Semantic-based systems for Handling, Acquiring, and Processing knowledge Embedded in multidimensional digital objects” Workshop : From CAD to Virtual Reality within the Product Development Process, Universita’ degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II. 2006: “Virtual Reality and prototyping”, Workshop COMSON - Coupled Multiscale Simulation and Optimisation in Nanoelectronics, 28 April 2006, Arcavacata, Cosenza. 2006: “ICAM - Interface for Collaborative Asynchronous design review on Mobile device”, Workshop TOPICS IN AUTOMATIC 3D MODELLING AND PROCESSING, Verona MARCH 17th, 2006. 4/33 2005: “Virtual Reality Techniques for Styling and Vehicle Design”, Workshop on the Virtual Reality in the Vehicle Engineering – Virtual Reality Laboratory - FIREMA Trasporti S.p.A. - Caserta, Italia, October 2005. 2005: “Interactive and Immersive Geographic Information Systems Supporting Strategical Environmental Decision Making”, Workshop “ECOTER”, development of a prototype system for sharing information related to acts of terrorism to the environment, agriculture and water systems NATO Headquarter, Brussels, September 2005. 2005: “Automatic Extraction of Encoded Semantic Information for the Development of a Context Sensitive Multimodal Framework for VR”, Convegno "Matematica, Arte e Industria, Cetraro (CS), Italy, May 2005. EDITORIAL BOARD 2014: Editor of the VISION, Visualization Simulation and Visual Computing Technologies, EU Position and Future Potential. ISBN: 978-92-79-29370-2, DOI: 10.2759/12400. 2014: Editor of the Future Vision and Trends on Shapes, Geometry and Algebra, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, eBook ISBN 978-1-4471-6461-6, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-6461-6.