Walter Didimo

Curriculum

Walter Didimo received the PhD in Computer Engineering from Sapienza, University of Rome in April 2000. He is currently full professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Perugia. His research interests include Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, Information Visualization, Algorithm Engineering, Computational Complexity, Computational Geometry, Data Mining, Software Design and Experiments. He collected more than 200 international publications in the above areas. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Access journal and served as a member of the steering committee of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization from 2011 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022. In 2012 he has been co-chair of the 20th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and co-chair of the 28th European Workshop on Computational Geometry. He served in organizing and program committees of international conferences, including the International Symposium on Graph Drawing, the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, and the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium. Since 2006, he organizes the annual international event “BICI Workshop on Graph Drawing”, which takes place at the residential-university center of Bertinoro. From 2019 to 2022 he has been the director of the Research Unit CINI at the University of Perugia. He has been scientific coordinator or member of several national and international research projects. From May 2009 to November 2014, he has been co-founder member of the academic spin-off Vis4 Srl. From November 1, 2024, Walter Didimo is chair of the degree programs in Information Engineeing at the University of Perugia.

My main career milestones:

1996: Degree in Mathematics (University of Rome "La Sapienza").
2000: Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (University of Rome "La Sapienza").
2000-2001: Post-doc (University "Roma Tre" - DIA).
2001-2004: Assistant professor (University of Perugia - DIEI).
2005-2013: Associate professor (University of Perugia - DIEI).
2014-: Associate professor (University of Perugia - DI).
2024-: Full professor (University of Perugia - DI).

Full version of my curriculum vitae: [Italiano] [English]

Research

Research Interests

• Graph Drawing and Network Visualization
• Information Visualization
• Algorithm Engineering
• Computational Complexity
• Computational Geometry
• Data Mining and Information Retrieval
• Software Design and Experiments

Editorship

• Associate Editor of IEEE Access(since October 2018)
• Guest Editor of CGTA, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Special Issue on Selected Papers from 28th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, EuroCG 2012
• Guest Editor of JGAA, Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, Special Issue on Selected Papers from the 20th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2012
• Editor of ISRN Combinatorics (2012-2014)
• Editor of International Scholarly Research Notices - Discrete Mathematics (2014-2017)
• Editor of Graph Drawing 20th International Symposium, GD 2012, Redmond, WA, USA, September 19-21, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Walter Didimo and Maurizio Patrignani (Eds.), Springer, LNCS volume 7704, 2013
• Editor of the book Le soluzioni Open Source per la Pubblica Amministrazione. Le esperienze nella Regione Umbria, Paolo Carbone, Walter Didimo, and Osvaldo Gervasi (Eds.), FrancoAngeli, 2013.

Books

• Fondamenti di Informatica in Java, Emilo Di Giacomo, Walter Didimo, Maggioli Ed., 2014.

Grants

• MUR, PRIN 2022,"EXPAND: scalable algorithms for EXPloratory Analyses of heterogeneous and dynamic Networked Data.", prot. 2022TS4Y3N - Participant
• MUR, PRIN 2022 - PNRR,"Assessing conflict of interests – ACOI.", prot. P2022JSLZW - Participant
• MUR, Proj. "RASTA - Realtà Aumentata e Story-Telling Automatizzato per la Valorizzazione di Beni Culturali ed Itinerari" (RASTA - Augmented Reality and Automated Story-Telling for the Valorization of Cultural Heritage and Itineraries) , PON n. ARS01_00540, CUP B92F20000500005 - Participant
• Progetto Scientifico "AIDMIX-Artificial Intelligence for Decision making: Methods for Interpretability and eXplainability - Fondo di Ricerca di Base dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia 2021 - (Base Research of the University of Perugia 2021) - WP leader
• Progetto Scientifico "Data driven techniques to tax evasion risk analysis" - contratto tra il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia e la società KPMG SpA nell'ambito del bando europeo REFORM/SC2021/021 (Contract between the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia and the company KPMG SpA within the European call REFORM/SC2021/021 "Data driven techniques to tax evasion risk analysis") - Principal Investigator
• Progetto Scientifico "GO2ELECTRIC" – contratto tra il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia e la ditta SolarEdge E-Mobility SpA, nell’ambito del programma POR-FESR Umbria 2014-2020 (Scientific Project "GO2ELECTRIC" - contract between the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia and the company SolarEdge E-Mobility SpA, within the regional program POR-FESR Umbria 2014-2020, Italian Government - Co-Principal Investigator
• MIUR, PRIN 2017,"AHeAD: efficient Algorithms for HArnessing networked Data", prot. 00120174LF3T8 - Participant
• Progetto Scientifico "Algoritmi e sistemi di analisi visuale di reti complesse e di grandi dimensioni" - Ricerca di Base 2017 e 2018, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia (Scientific Project "Algorithms and systems for the visual analysis of complex and large networks" - Basic Research 2017, Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia) – Principal Investigator
• Progetto Scientifico "CARE: Un Sistema Informativo Regionale per lo Scompenso Cardiaco e le Patologie Vascolari" - Proj. PRJ-1507 Azione 2.3.1 POR-FESR 2014-2020 (Scientific Project "CARE: A Regional Information System for Heart Failure and Vascular Diseases" - Proj. PRJ-1507 Action 2.3.1 POR-FESR 2014-2020) – Participant
• Progetto scientifico "Analisi, progetto e sviluppo di algoritmi e interfacce di analisi visuale di dati nell’ambito del sistema di Knowledge Discovery PiattaformaPA and B2B", contratto tra il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia e la ditta ETI3 Srl, nell’ambito del programma POR-FESR 2014-2020 – Bando a Sostegno delle nuove PMI innovative - Asse I – Attività 1.3.1 (Scientific Project "Analysis, design, and development of algorithms and interfaces for the visual analysis of data within the Knowledge Discovery system PiattaformaPA and B2B", contract between the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia and the company ETI3 Srl, within the regional program POR-FESR 2014-2020, Italian Government) - Co-Principal Investigator
• Progetto scientifico "Modelli e tecniche di classificazione/indicizzazione di documenti nell’ambito del sistema GLOBAL DOC", contratto tra il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia e la ditta G-DOC, nell'ambito del bando regionale Azione Innovative, POR-FESR 2007-2013 (Scientific Project "Models and techniques for document categorization/indexing in the GLOBAL DOC system", contract between the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia and the company Sistematica SpA, within the regional call, Innovative Actions, POR-FESR 2007-2013, Italian Government) - Principal Investigator
• Progetto scientifico "INFINITY - Sviluppo di modelli e algoritmi per la rappresentazione di informazioni inerenti ai parametri di stile di guida di basi di utenti di grandi dimensioni", contratto tra il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia e la ditta Sistematica SpA, nell'ambito del bando regionale Azione Innovative, POR-FESR 2007-2013 (Scientific Project "INFINITY - Models and algorithms for the visual representation of information on the driving styles of a big dataset of drivers.", contract between the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia and the company Sistematica SpA, within the regional call, Innovative Actions, POR-FESR 2007-2013, Italian Government) - Principal Investigator
• MIUR Proj. Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation, "SMARTOUR: Intelligent Platform for Tourism", ref. SCN_00166 - Participant
• MIUR, PRIN 2012,"AMANDA: Algorithmics for MAssive and Networked DAta", prot. 2012C4E3KT 001 - Participant[web site]
• Progetto Regionale, "VITA: Visualizzazione dell'Informazione e Tecnologie Assistive" (Regional Project, "VITA: Information Visualization and Assistive Technologies") - Participant
• Progetto Regionale, "TRART: Valorizzazione del patrimonio paesaggistico umbro attraverso l'uso di tecnologie telematiche" (Regional Project, "TRART: Telematic Representation-Augmented Reality-Territories") - Participant
• Progetto Regionale CCOS 2009, "Servizio di Monitoraggio per i progetti FLOSS finanziati dal CCOS" (Regional Project CCOS 2009, Italian Government, "Monitoring service for the CCOS projects about FLOSS") - Principal Investigator
• Progetto Regionale CCOS 2009, "Redazione di un libro sull'esperienza di migrazione verso software FLOSS nella Regione Umbria" (Regional Project CCOS 2009, Italian Government, "A book on migration towards FLOSS in the Umbria Region") - Participant
• MIUR, PRIN 08, "AlgoDEEP: Algorithmic Challenges for Data-intensive Processing on Emerging Computing Platforms" - Participant [web site]
• Progetto Regionale Azione Innovative, POR-FESR 2006-2007, "COWA: COnceptual Web Analyzer" (Regional Project, Innovative Actions, POR-FESR 2006-2007, Italian Government, "COWA: COnceptual Web Analyzer") - Co-Principal Investigator
• Progetto Regionale CCOS 2007, "Linee guida per la pianificazione, il monitoraggio e la valutazione delle attività di migrazione verso software FLOSS" (Regional Project CCOS 2007, Italian Government, "Guideline for planning, monitoring, and assessing activities of migration towards FLOSS") - Co-Principal Investigator
• Progetto Regionale CCOS 2007, "Servizio di Audit per i Progetti FLOSS finanziati dal CCOS" (Regional Project CCOS 2009, Italian Government, "Auditing of FLOSS projects granted by CCOS") - Participant
• European Project, @LIS Program, "Health for All in LA: Improving health care access and management through eLearning for continuous professional development of family doctors in Latin America" - Participant [web site]
• Progetto e sviluppo di prototipi software nell'ambito del programma: "Sistemi robotizzati per la conservazione di DNA, sangue e materiali biologici a bassa temperatura, Prog. MIUR S606/P" (Design and implementation of software prototypes within the program "Robotic systems for preserving DNA, blood and biological materials at low temperature, Prog. MIUR S606/P") - Principal Investigator
• PRIN 06 (MIUR Proj.), "MAINSTREAM: Algorithms for Massive Information Structures and Data Streams" - Participant [web site]
• Progetto Regionale CRIDEA Umbria, Italian Government, "AREA: Sistema Informativo per le Esperienze di Educazione Ambientale e di Sviluppo Sostenibile" (CRIDEA Umbria Regional Project, "AREA: Information system for the environmental educational and sustainable development experiences") - Participant
• Progetto Regionale ARPA Umbria, Italian Government, "Divulgazione dati DOCUP Ob.2, anni 2005-7, di monitoraggio delle aree industriali" (ARPA Umbria Regional Project, "Dissemination of DOCUP data Ob.2, years 2005-7, on the monitoring of industrial areas") - Participant
• MIUR, PRIN 04, "ALGO-NEXT: Algorithms for the Next Generation Internet and Web: Methodologies, Design and Applications" - Participant [web site]
• MIUR, PRIN 02, "ALINWEB: Algorithms for Internet and the Web" - Participant

Software

CHIP

VAIM

BrowVis

ChordLink

GiViP

TaxNet/TefNet

GiLA

VisFAN

SplitFM3

VHyXY

COWA

MatchOMan

WhatsOnWeb

HERMES

DbDraw

GDToolkit