Andrea Mariello

PhD candidate at the ICT International Doctoral School
University of Trento, Via Sommarive 5, I-38123 Povo (Trento), Italy
Member of the LION lab (machine Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN)

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Short bio

I was born in Gallipoli, a small town in the south of Italy. In 2008, I was honored with the title of Alfiere del Lavoro by the President of the Italian Republic, being the first among the top 25 high school students in Italy in 2004-2008.

In 2011, I received a BSc in Information Engineering cum laude from the University of Salento, with a thesis on parallel and distributed computing systems titled Benchmark for relational DBMSs: state of the art and comparative analysis between MySQL and SQLite. Then I received an MSc in Computer Engineering cum laude from the same university in 2013, with a thesis on high performance computing titled Big Data Analytics for Climate Change, developed in collaboration with the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC). I worked as a computer scientist at CMCC until 2015 and I have been one of the core developers of Ophidia, an innovative and open source big data analytics platform designed for e-science.

I am currently a PhD student of the ICT International Doctoral School at the University of Trento and a member of the LION lab. I am a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. My research activity primarily focuses on machine learning and intelligent optimization, aiming at integrating machine learning techniques into local search heuristics to solve complex optimization problems.

PhD advisor and other collaborators

• Roberto Battiti (PhD Advisor)
• Mauro Brunato

Teaching activities

• Teaching assistant in Learning From Data (CS1156x), Caltech through edX, Sep-Dec, 2016 (by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa)
• Teaching assistant and lecturer in Machine Learning for Data Science, University of Trento, a.y. 2016/17, 2017/18 (by Mauro Brunato, Bachelor's level)
• Teaching assistant in Intelligent Optimization for Data Science, University of Trento, a.y. 2017/18 (by Roberto Battiti, Master's level)

Research activities

Journals

• A.Mariello, R.Battiti
  Feature Selection based on the Neighborhood Entropy
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2018.2830700 [in press]
  pre-print
• I.Martin, A.Mariello, R.Battiti, J.A.Hernandez
  Salary Prediction in the IT Job Market with Few High-Dimensional Samples: A Spanish Case Study
  International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems [in press]
  pre-print

Book chapters

• R.Battiti, M.Brunato, A.Mariello
  Reactive Search Optimization: Learning While Optimizing
  M.Gendreau, J.Y.Potvin (eds.), Handbook of Metaheuristics (3rd ed.), International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC [in press]
  pre-print

Conference proceedings

• M.Mirto, A.Mariello, A.Nuzzo, M.Mancini, A.Raolil, O.Marra, S.Fiore, C.Sirca, M.Salis, V.Bacciu, D.Spano, G.Aloisio
  The OFIDIA Fire Danger Rating System
  The 10th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC 2015)
  Krakow, Poland. November 4-6, 2015.
• C.Palazzo, A.Mariello, S.Fiore, A.D'Anca, D.Elia, D.N.Williams, G.Aloisio
  A Workflow-Enabled Big Data Analytics Software Stack for eScience
  The Second International Symposium on Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications (BDAA 2015), HPCS 2015
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands. July 20-24, 2015.
• S.Fiore, M.Mancini, D.Elia, P.Nassisi, F.V.Brasileiro, I.Blanquer, I.A.A.Rufino, A.C.Seijmonsbergen, C.O.Galvao, V.P.Canhos, A.Mariello, C.Palazzo, A.Nuzzo, A.D'Anca, G.Aloisio
  Big data analytics for climate change and biodiversity in the EUBrazilCC federated cloud infrastructure
  Workshop on Analytics Platforms for the Cloud, ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2015
  Ischia, Italy. May 18, 2015.
• S.Fiore, A.D'Anca, D.Elia, C.Palazzo, A.Mariello, P.Nassisi, G.Aloisio
  The Ophidia framework: toward big data analytics for climate change
  Climate data: management and analysis, SISC 2nd Annual Conference Proceedings
  Venice, Italy. September 29-30, 2014.

Conference talks

• S.Fiore, M.Mancini, A.D'Anca, C.Palazzo, A.Mariello, D.Elia, G.Aloisio
  Scientific Data Analytics Workflows at Large Scale with the Ophidia Big Data Stack
  Earth Observation Open Science 2.0 workshop, ESRIN
  Frascati, Italy. October 12-14, 2015 (e-Poster co-author)
• S.Fiore, A.Mariello, D.Elia, C.Palazzo, P.Nassisi, A.D'Anca, G.Aloisio
  A Big Data Analytics Framework for Multidimensional Data Analysis
  HPCS 2015
  Amsterdam, the Netherlands. July 20-24, 2015 (Demo presenter)
• M.Mirto, M.Mancini, A.Mariello, A.Raolil, O.Marra, S.Fiore, G.Aloisio
  OFIDIA Operational Fire Danger Prevention Platform
  HPCS 2015
  Amsterdam, the Netherlands. July 20-24, 2015 (Demo co-author)
• M.Mirto, M.Mancini, A.Mariello, O.Marra, C.Sirca, M.Salis, D.Spano, A.Bartzokas, S.Anastasiadis, S.Fiore, G.Aloisio
  The OFIDIA Project: an operational fire danger prevention platform
  The 2nd International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk (ICFBR 2015)
  Alghero, Italy. May 26-29, 2015 (Presentation co-author)
• S.Fiore, I.Blanquer, F.Brasileiro, G.Aloisio, A.Mariello
  A cloud-based parallel data analytics service for climate change and biodiversity research
  EGI Conference 2015
  Lisbon, Portugal. May 18-22, 2015 (Demo co-presenter)
• S.Fiore, A.D'Anca, C.Palazzo, D.Elia, A.Mariello, P.Nassisi, G.Aloisio
  Big data analytics workflow management for eScience
  EGU General Assembly 2015
  Vienna, Austria. April 12-17, 2015 (Speaker)
• S.Fiore, D.Elia, A.D'Anca, A.Mariello, C.Palazzo, P.Nassisi, G.Aloisio
  Ophidia: Big Data Analytics for eScience
  HPCS 2014
  Bologna, Italy. July 21-25, 2014 (Demo co-author)
• S.Fiore, A.D'Anca, D.Elia, C.Palazzo, A.Mariello, P.Nassisi, G.Aloisio
  Ophidia: toward big data analytics for climate change
  CMCC Annual Meeting
  Marina di Ugento (Lecce), Italy. June 10-13, 2014 (Poster co-author)

Seminars

• A.Mariello
  Feature selection for smarter data analysis
  IMDEA Networks Institute
  Leganés (Madrid), Spain. December 12, 2016 (Speaker)
  Seminar website
• A.Mariello
  LIONlab Seminars
  University of Trento
  Trento, Italy. March 7 - April 27, 2016 (Organizer)
  Seminars website
• A.Mariello
  Approximated Nearest Neighbors
  LIONlab Seminars, University of Trento
  Trento, Italy. March 16, 2016 (Speaker)
  Seminars website
• A.Mariello
  Getting started with Ophidia
  The 1st Ophidia CMCC User Meeting
  Lecce, Italy. February 9-10, 2015 (Speaker and tutorialist)
  Ophidia website

Projects

• INDIGO-DataCloud
  INtegrating Distributed data Infrastructures for Global ExplOitation
  Requirements analysis and workflows design for the climate change community (May-Jun 2015)
  Project website
• CLIPC
  CLimate Information Platform for Copernicus
  Design of a caching system for the analysis of impact indicators (Dec 2014-Mar 2015)
  Project website
• OFIDIA
  Operational FIre Danger preventIon plAtform
  Design and implementation of the online data archive and related data access and transformation services (Feb 2014-Sep 2015)
  Project website
• OrientGate
  a network for the integration of climate knowledge into policy and planning
  Design and implementation of the data management platform (Nov 2013-Jan 2014)
  Project website

Technical reports

• S.Fiore, A.D'Anca, D.Elia, A.Mariello, C.Palazzo, L.Conte, G.Aloisio
  Array-based primitives in Ophidia v2.0
  CMCC Research Paper No. 237
  December 2014
• S.Fiore, A.D'Anca, D.Elia, A.Mariello, C.Palazzo, L.Conte, G.Aloisio
  Data and Metadata Operators in Ophidia v2.0
  CMCC Research Paper No. 236
  December 2014
• S.Fiore, A.D'Anca, D.Elia, A.Mariello, C.Palazzo, P.Nassisi, G.Aloisio
  Oph-Terminal: a client interface to the Ophidia parallel data analysis service
  CMCC Research Paper No. 235
  December 2014
• S.Fiore, A.D'Anca, D.Elia, A.Mariello, C.Palazzo, P.Nassisi, G.Aloisio
  Ophidia v2.0 installation and configuration manual
  CMCC Research Paper No. 234
  December 2014
• S.Fiore, A.D'Anca, A.Mariello, G.Aloisio
  Metadata Management Operators in the Ophidia Framework
  CMCC Research Paper No. 191
  December 2013

Honours and awards

• Premio Citta' Nuova 2014, Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy, August 20, 2014
• In 2008 awarded the honor of Alfiere del Lavoro by the President of Italian Republic for school merits (grade average of 10/10 and first among the best 25 students in Italy for the 2003-2008 period)
• In 2008 winner of the National Biology Olympiad and member of the Italian team at the International Biology Olympiad in Mumbai, India
• In 2007 winner of ENI's national competition Giovani, Energia del Futuro for the design of an Energy Plan for the town of Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy

Memberships

• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Member (2016-present)
• Registered with the Order of Engineers of the Province of Lecce (Italy), Section A, Sector C (Information Engineering) (2014-present)
• IEEE Member (2013-present)

Miscellanea

• Visiting Ph.D. Student at IMDEA Networks Institute and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes (Madrid), Spain, September - December 2016
• Advanced Statistics and Data Mining Summer School, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, July 4-8, 2016