Alessio Bechini

Position: Researcher

Department: Information Engineering, via Diotisalvi, 2 - 56122 Pisa (Italy)

Room: 217

Tel: +39 050 2217 554
Fax: +39 050 2217 600

e-mail:

Research interests

My current research spans the fields of enterprise information systems, data management and integration, service management, with particular interest in biology-related computing (including modeling and algorithmic aspects). 

Moreover, my activity has been mainly focused on both concurrent systems and design/implementation of embedded systems.

Events I'm involved in

ACM SAC/EMBS 2012   EMBS 2011  EMBS 2010   ...

ICA3PP 2011  ICA3PP 2010

SOAIC 2009 (in IEEE ICEBE 2009)   SOAIC 2008   SOSE 2007

KMIS 2011

RTCSA 2012  RTCSA 2011  RTCSA 2010  RTCSA 2009  ...

IEEE ICESS 2012  ICESS 2011   ICESS 2010

IEEE/ACM IUCC 2012

IFIP EUC 2007

IEEE High Perf. Comp. & Comm. 2010  HPCC-09  HPCC-08  ...

MEDEA 2009 (workshop within PACT 2009)   MEDEA 2008  ...

Teaching

At present, at the College of Engineering of the University of Pisa I'm in charge for the following courses:

• II416 - Bioinformatics ("Bionformatica"), course program in Biomedical Engineering
• Lab work for II389 - Computer Networks' Services and Applications (Servizi e Applicazioni delle Reti Informatiche),  tenured by prof. Enzo Mingozzi, course program in Computer Engineering for Enterprise Management
  
• 043II - Informatics - DB part ("Informatica - parte di Basi di Dati"), course program in Management Engineering

Other past courses:

• II619 - Software Tools for Computational Biology ("Strumenti Software per la Biologia Computazionale"), course program in Biomedical Engineering - topics currently included in the Bioinformatics course

• II036 - Information Systems ("Sistemi Informativi"), course program in Management Engineering
• II447/II447 - Informatics ("Informatica"), course programs in Energy and Electrical Engineering
• II390 - Information Systems for Enterprises ("Sistemi Informativi per le Aziende"), course program in Computer Engineering for Enterprise Management
• II072 - Computer Science Foundations 2 ("Fondamenti di Informatica 2"), course program in Computer Engineering

I'm also involved in the course Design of Web sites within the Master on Internet Technologies, jointly organized by IIT (CNR) and the Dept. of Information Engineering.

I'm in charge for teaching support to the course Computing Systems ("Sistemi di Elaborazione") at Accademia Navale in Livorno.

I collaborated with Scuola Superiore S. Anna as a teacher for the Int'l Master in Software Engineering and the Int'l Master in Communication and Networking Engineering, on the courses Java programming, Internet Software Technologies, and Interoperability.

Available thesis works

Some thesis works are available for different Engineering courses; hereafter you can take a look at the involved topics.

Computer Engineering (Ing. Informatica, triennale e specialistica)

• Support to (semantic) document management
• Ontology-based search
  
• Management and processing of georeferenced scientific data
• Customization of  Information Retrieval software
  
• Management of biological data (and related topics)
• Development of bioinformatics libraries (in Python)
• GPU-based bioinformatics algorithms
  

Computer Engineering for Enterprise Management (Ing. Informatica per la Gestione d'Azienda, specialistica)

• Document management systems: architecture, interoperability, ontologies
• Techniques for semantic search
• (see also topics for "Computer Engineering")
  

Management Engineering (Ing. Gestionale, triennale e magistrale)

• BPM  and workflow support
  
• Web-based information systems

Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering (Lauree specialistiche)

• Definition, assessment and exploitation of simplified models for proteins
• Novel approaches to long-term simulation of biomolecules
• Development of standard libraries for RNA analysis
• Optimization problems in structural bioinformatics
• GPU-based bioinformatics algorithms
• Semantic tagging in biomolecular diagnistic test procedures

Misc material

  I'm a member of the IEEE Computer Society, 

 the IEEE Services Computing Community,

and I joined the IEEE Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Forum Community as well.

Find out what's going on in the HiPEAC Network of  Excellence...

Take a look at the July/Aug 2004 issue of IEEE MICRO, "Embedded Systems: Implanting microprocessors for a myriad of applications" (guest eds: A. Bechini, T. Conte, C. A. Prete): I'm sure it’s worth doing!

Other info

Recommended ways to spend your free CPU-time: 

look at Folding@Home      or BOINC project    

Some memories of my far-off activity in caving...  Talp n.7    Talp n.8

I give my support to msf.it and parentproject.org