Floriana Esposito

Floriana Esposito
Born1947 (age 76–77)
NationalityItalian
AwardsEurAI Fellow
2006
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Bari (Laurea)
Academic work
DisciplineComputer scientist
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of Bari

Floriana Esposito (born 1947)[1] is an Italian computer scientist whose research topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning have included decision tree learning, description logic, and document layout analysis. She is a professor of computer science and the former dean of computer science at the University of Bari, where she heads the Laboratory for Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning.

Education and career

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Esposito studied electronic physics at the University of Bari, earning a laurea (the Italian equivalent of a master's degree) in 1970. She became an assistant professor at the university in 1974, an associate professor in 1984, and a full professor in 1994. She served as dean of the university's Faculty of Computer Science from 1997 to 2002,[2] and head of the Department of Computer Science from 2003 to 2008.[3]

She founded the Laboratory for Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning (LACAM) in 1989, and continues[as of?] to serve as its scientific director.[3]

Recognition

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Esposito is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, elected as a fellow in 2006.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2024-01-07
  2. ^ "Floriana Esposito", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 15 March 2004, retrieved 2024-01-07
  3. ^ a b c Curriculum (in Italian), University of Bari, retrieved 2024-01-07
  4. ^ EurAI Fellows, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-01-07
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