Director of Research at INRAE Clermont Ferrand: Research Unit TSCF, Robotics and Mobility for Environment and Agriculture, since February 2009.
I studied Computer Science at the Università degli Studi di Salerno in Italy with a specialization in computer networks. My Postgraduate Diploma report deals with visual languages for Spatial Data Mining (July 2003).
I completed my PhD in Computer Science entitled "Integration of geographical information in data warehouses and online analysis: from modeling to visualization" at INSA Lyon in the LIRIS laboratory (12/18/2007).
My main research activities are:
Complex Data Warehouses (DW) and Spatial Online Analytical Processing (Spatial OLAP)
Big Data, IoT, and Robotics for Agroecology
Design of complex information system
Geovisualization
AI and information systems