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Roberto Piola
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Roberto Piola
Curriculum vitae et studiorum
Personal Data
Name: RobertoSurname: Piola.
Place of Birth: Novara (Italy)
Date of Birth: 18.01.1970.
Nationality: Italian
e-mail: roberto@ilpiola.it
WWW: http://www.ilpiola.it/roberto
Education
Upper-school leaving certificate obtained from the Scientific Lycee ``M.Curie" in Pinerolo (TO) in 1989 with a rating of 60/60.
Degree in Computing Science cum laude
obtained from the University of Torino,
on the 17th of february 1994. The curriculum was oriented towards
``Artificial Intelligence".
The research thesis, entitled ``Synthesis and on-line refinement of controllers
for industrial robots" (advisor prof. A. Giordana), was about the development of
new fuzzy controller architectures, able to tune themselves by means of both
supervised and unsupervised learning.
Post-graduate courses: ``Machine Learning Summer School", organized by MLnet in Dourdan (France), September 1994.
Since February 1995, Ph.D. courses at the University of Torino and attendance to the first and second Italian schools of the Doctorates of Philosophy in Computer Science, organized in Pontignano (Siena), in october 1995 and may/june 1996.
April 1998: Cisco "SupportPro" certificate.
Ph.D. in Computer Science obtained in february 1999, with a thesis entitled "Refinement of Knowledge Bases in First-Order Logics by means of Neural Networks".
March 1999: Cisco "Network Design Specialist" Certification.
December 2006: Watchguard Certification
February 2008: Cisco CCENT Certification
May 2008: Cisco CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Associate) Certification
September 2008: Cisco CCDA (Cisco Certified Design Associate) Certification
June 2009: Cisco DCNID (Datacenter Network Infrastructure Designer) Certification
June 2009: Cisco SMB Select Technical Certification
October 2009: Cisco DCASD (Datacenter Application Services Design) Certification
Januuary 2010: Cisco DCASI (Datacenter Application Services Implementation) Certification
June 2010: Cisco CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) Certification
February 2011: Cisco DCNI (Cisco Certified Datacenter Field Engineer) Certification
May 2011: Cisco CCDP (Cisco Certified Design Professional) Certification
Research activities
After graduation, the research work continued in the line of translating symbolic knowledge into neural networks and then to refine them. The addressed methods were not only the classical gradient descent, but also Reinforcemente Learning and evolutionary techniques.The Ph.D. thesis addresses the problem of raising the methods for theory refinement by means of neural networks, already developed in the propositional framework, to the use of First Order Logics.
Known computing environments and tools
- MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/2008/Vista/7, Windows CE and Unix (Linux, SunOS, Solaris, Digital Unix, HP-UX).
- Programming graphical applications (Borland ObjectVision and Microsoft VisualC++, Windows CE, X-View, Java).
- Database servers: Microsoft Sql, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle
- 4th generation languages: dbaseIII/IV, Paradox, SQL, MS Access.
- C, C++, LISP, Prolog, SmallTalk, Eiffel, Pascal, Clipper, Forth, Ada, Fortran, BASIC, PAL, ObjectPal, Java, Javascript, ASP, VBS, PHP.
- Tool for distributed computing: PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine).
- WEB publishing tools: HTML, http-servers (httpd, Spinner, Netscape communication server, Roxen, Apache, Java Web Server), Cgi-bin.
- Set-up and administration of internet/intranet sites, with both unix and Windows NT IIS.
- WAN routers: Cisco, CompatibleSystems, Bay Network, ZyXel, 3com, zebra/Quagga.
- Firewalls: Cisco, Firebox, Sonicwall, Clavister, Linux iptables.
- WAP environment (Nokia Wap server and the development of a reduced wap server for embedded systems)
- Development environment for embedded systems (Cobox Micro by Lantronix and Ubicom IP 2022)
- Development of software for TomTom and Android embedded devices
- Voip Platforms: Cisco, Linksys, GnuGK, Asterisk, Swyx
- Virtualization platforms: Xen and VMWare
- Clustering: heartbeat, RedHat Cluster Manager, Microsft Cluster Services, Oracle Real Application Cluster
Known languages
Italian (mother language), English and French.
Work experiences
From 1988 to 1992: free-lance part-time consultant, mainly active for the production of business applications and the teaching in professional schools.A fairly large number of programs has been released as shareware or published on the PC Floppy magazine.
February 1994-october 1994: administrative part-time staff for the European Science Foundation.
October 1994: two-weeks stage at the Leuven Catholic University (Belgium), in the Robotics department.
November 1994-october 1995: military service at the ``Scuola d'Applicazione d'Arma di Torino", with the duty of teaching assistant of theoretical computer science.
Since july 1995: part-time consultant for Pinerolo Internetworking (Internet ServiceProvider).
October 1995-febbruary 1996: teaching assistant of theory and applications of computer science at the ``Scuola d'Applicazione d'Arma di Torino".
Since february 1996: part-time consultant for Internet House and MediaLine (Internet Service Provider).
Since april 1997: part-time consultant for Internet House and Magellano (Internet Service Provider).
Since september 1997: contributor for the magazine ``Login", published by Infomedia.
Novembre 1997-February 1998: stage at the Aberdeen University (UK).
Since march 1998: member of the Gruppo IH firm.
Since november 1998: full-time consultant for Gruppo IH, in the networking, security and system integration fields; acting also as a consultant for Gruppo IH customers and as a programmer engaged in the building of internet and intranet sites
April 2000 to the end of 2002: partially employed also as firmware engineer by Inovatec S.p.A.
Since december 2002: as a consultant from Gruppo IH, involved in the deployment of a large-scale voice/data network extending across Italy and Romania: Connet-ro (www.connet-ro.com)
Since february 2007: full-time employed at Visiant, as a Senior Network Engineer, with the task of deploying and maintaining large-scale IP networks and specialized systems (mainly linux hosts, cisco routers, blade servers).
During this period some notable works were the IH.MIS/MX mail filtering system, some plugins for the freeware SquirrelMail platform, and some activity as Virus Hunter for ClamAV.
Publications
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