I'm a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). I received a M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the the University of Naples "Federico II". in March 2002. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the the same university in December 2005.

My primary research interests are in the area of information retrieval and information extraction, multimedia databases and knowledge and data engineering. I'm a member of the Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics (LCCD).