Keynote

Alfredo Cuzzocrea

Title: Innovative Paradigms for Supporting Privacy-Preserving Multidimensional Big Healthcare Data

Management and Analytics: The Case of the EU H2020 QUALITOP Research Projects

Abstract: Nowadays, big healthcare data management and analytics are playing the leading role within the broad

context of big data applications and systems. A clear example is represented by the modern COVID-19

outbreak that is spreading world-wide at an impressive rate. Here, healthcare analytics is critical for taking

medical decision making at Country- and Regional-level. The EU H2020 QUALITOP research project is an

authoritative project whose main goal consists in monitoring multidimensional aspects of QUAlity of Life

after cancer ImmunoTherapy, and to define and implement an Open smart digital Platform for personalized

prevention and patient management. Within the QUALITOP project, a critical challenge is represented by

the issue of providing support for privacy-preserving multidimensional big healthcare data management

and analytics, where the main emphasis is on the two following keywords: multidimensionality and privacy

preservation. In this talk, we will present some relevant innovations developed in the context of the latter

research area, with also an overview of possible research challenges for future efforts in the investigated

field.

Bio: Alfredo Cuzzocrea is Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria, Rende, Italy. He is the

Head of the Big Data Engineering and Analytics Lab of the University of Calabria. He holds the Excellence

Chair in Computer Engineering at the LORIA Lab, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France. His research focuses

on big data, database systems, data mining, data warehousing, and knowledge discovery. He is author or

co-author of more than 660 papers. He is recognized in prestigious international research rankings, such as:

(i) Top Scientist in Computer Science and Electronics by Guide2Research, Clifton, NJ, USA; (ii) Top 2%

World-Wide Scientist 1996-2019 by METRICS, Stanford, CA, USA; (iii) Top Researcher in Computer Science

2013-2018 by SciVal – Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands; (iv) Top Italian Scientist in Computer Sciences by

Virtual Italian Academy, Manchester, UK; (v) 1st World-Wide Scientist 1970-2020 for Research Topic:

“OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP)” by Microsoft Academic, Redmond, WA, USA.