Beppe Liotta

Beppe Liotta is a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering, University of Perugia. He serves as Rector Delegate for ICT and Digital Agenda. His research spans network discovery, graph drawing, algorithm engineering, and computational geometry.

• Laurea in Electrical Engineering (1990), Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (1995), both from University of Rome 'La Sapienza'
• Post-doc at Brown University (1995-1996)
• Current teaching: Information Visualization and Database Management Systems

Liotta has authored over 170 papers and led projects like VisFAN (financial crime detection), VHyXY (large graph visualization), COWA (web traffic analysis), and WhatsOnWeb (web clustering). His work focuses on hybrid visualizations and network robustness.

Recent articles highlight his expertise in biological networks, financial activity networks, and one-to-many matched graph visualizations. He has contributed to journals like IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and conferences including PacificVis and Graph Drawing.

Liotta actively participates in scientific service, including editorial roles for the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications and program committees for IEEE PVIS 2019.