Salvatore Orlando

Professor of Computer Science
E-mail: o r l a n d o @ u n i v e . i t
URL: http://www.dais.unive.it/~orlando

Contact Information:
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica
Via Torino, 155
30172 Venezia Mestre - Italy
Phone: +39 041 2348428
Fax: +39 041 2348419

Head of Department (Dept. of Env. Science, Informatics and Statistics)

Adjunct Researcher at ISTI - CNR of Pisa, HPC Lab, Tel. +39 050 3152468.

Biographical Sketch

Laurea degree cum laude in Computer Science, University of Pisa, 1985.
PhD in Computer Science, University of Pisa, 1991.
From 1991 to 1992, Research Fellow of the Hewlett Packard - Pisa Science Center.
In 1993, Post-doc Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science of University of Pisa.
In 1994 he has joined Ca' Foscari University of Venice as an Assistant Professor.
Since 2000 till 2017, Associate Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Since 2010 till 2019 he was the Coordinator of the BSc and MSc Programs in Computer Science of Ca' Foscari University.
Since 2017, he has been a Full Professor of Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Since October 2020, he has been appointed as Head of Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics of Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Curriculum vitae et studiorum

Research Interests and Publications



QuickScorer: A Fast Algorithm to Rank Documents with Additive Ensembles of Regression Trees,
by C. Lucchese, F. M. Nardini, S. Orlando, R. Perego, N. Tonellotto, and R. Venturini. ACM SIGIR 2015.
Best Paper Award!
ACM Computing Reviews selected the paper as a notable article in computing in 2015.

ACM Computing Reviews selected the paper:
Lucchese, C.; Orlando, S.; Perego, R.; Silvestri, F.; and Tolomei, G. Discovering tasks from search engine query logs.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 31 Issue 3 (July 2013), Article No. 14, ACM New York, NY, USA.
as a notable article in computing in 2013.

Research Projects

PhD Students

Professional Activities

Member of many Technical Program Committes (KDD, ICDM, SDM, ECML/PKDD, CIKM, IPDPS, Euro-Par, Euro PVM/MPI, SAC - DM Track, PAKDD).

Recent TPC memberships:

General Chair of EDBT/ICDT 2017.

Teaching