Post doc

EURECOM: School of Engineering & Research Center

Multimedia Communications Department

Address: 450 Route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France.

Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8260

Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8200

Email: giuseppe.rizzo@eurecom.fr

Short Bio

Giuseppe Rizzo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Multimedia Communications Department of EURECOM since January 2012. Currently Giuseppe is involved in the LinkedTV project and in the recent past has collaborated in the OpenSem and EventMedia projects. His main research interests include Information Extraction, Linked Data and Web Science. He is a devoted Web evangelist, fascinated by smart web applications and knowledge extraction techniques; he likes to consider the Web as a mine of real world entities.

He obtained his Master in Computer Science at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy after defending his thesis with the subject of Semantic Classification and Clustering of Emails. Mixing Web techniques and intelligent agents became a love and he decided to pursue these studies in a PhD. He benefited from a PhD fellowship from Politecnico di Torino at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, supervised by the legendary prof. Raffaele Meo. During this period, he was visiting PhD student at EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, supervised by prof. Raphael Troncy.