Maurizio Lenzerini

Maurizio Lenzerini is a Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, where he has held positions since 1990. He has served as Chairman of the Bachelor Program in Computer Engineering (1993–2000), PhD Program in Computer Science and Engineering (2002–2008), and currently as Chairman of the PhD School in Information and Communication Technologies. His research focuses on database theory, data modeling, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and ontology languages, with applications in service modeling and healthcare.

Lenzerini has supervised numerous PhD students, many of whom hold academic positions in Europe. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of journals including Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Logical Methods in Computer Science. He has also served as Program Chair for conferences such as PODS 2008 and ICDT 2003.

His scientific awards include:

• 2009 ACM Fellow
• 2008 IBM Faculty Award on Service Science
• 2008 ACM Recognition of Service Award
• 2008 ECCAI Fellow
• 2005 IBM Shared University Research Award in P2P Data Management
• 2003 IBM Shared University Research Award in Information Integration
• 2018 ACM PODS Alberto Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award
• AAAI Fellow
• EurAI Fellow
• ER Fellow
• AAIA Fellow
• Member of Academia Europaea

Lenzerini leads a world-renowned research group in ontology-based data management since 1987. His work spans query answering, knowledge graphs, data integration, and semantic technologies, with applications in healthcare (e.g., AMD-STITCH project) and healthcare analytics. He has organized international conferences and delivered keynotes at major events like PODS and IJCAI.