Tiziana Catarci was born in Roma, November 6, 1961.
Master
degree in Engineering, University of Roma "La Sapienza",
1987.
PhD in Computer Science, University of Roma
"La Sapienza", 1992.
Since 1987 she teaches courses in Computer Science at Italian universities.
From 1987 to 1990, from 1990 to 1998, and from 1998 to 2000 she was research
assistant, assistant professor and associate professor respectively at the University of Roma "La Sapienza",
where she is now a full professor. Her main research interests are in
theoretical and application oriented aspects of visual formalisms for
databases, information visualization, database design, cooperative information
systems, user interfaces, usability, digital libraries, data quality and Web
access. On these topics she has published over 150 papers in leading journals
and conferences and 20 books. Her contribution can be regarded as one of the
first and most significant examples of deep analysis and formalization of the
interaction between the user and the database, which takes in consideration
both usability issues and language related aspects.
With
respect to applications, she has led or participated in various projects on
visual query systems, usability studies and developed methodologies for
database design. Particularly relevant are some European projects, including
KIM, VENUS, FADIVA, LAURIN, SEWASIE,DELOS, Interop,
WORKPAD, SM4All, aiming at investigating different aspects of interface design
and human-computer interaction. Outside of academia, she has been a consultant
to large (private and government) organisations.
Dr. Catarci is regularly in the programming committees of the
main database and human-computer interaction conferences and is associate
editor of ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection (DiSC),
VLDB Journal, World Wide Web Journal, and Journal of data Semantics. She has
been the PC Co-chair of WISE 2003 and of ODBASE 2004,
the Workshop co-chair of Interact 2005, and the tutorial co-chair of VLDB 2006. In 2008, she has
been the Note Co-chair of the 2008 edition of the largest and most important
conference on human-computer interaction, ACM CHI. In 2009 she is one of the
Track Chairs of ICDE 2009. She has been the organizing chair of the 27th
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2001), has been the
program co-chair of the Fifth IFIP Working Conference on Visual Database
Systems (VDB5) and has been the program co-chair of the International Workshop
on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) in 1996 and is in the AVI steering
committee. AVI is bringing together researchers in Human Computer Interaction
and Databases since 1992. She has been guest co-editor of two special issues of
the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (on "Visual Query
Languages"), of ACM SIGMOD Record (on "Information
Visualization"), of Information Systems (on “Data quality” and
on “Data and Service Integration”), and of the VLDB Journal (on
“Metadata Management”).
She is member of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Finally, she is the mother
of Domenico ...
More information can be found in:
T. Catarci -
What Happened When Database Researchers Met
Usability - Information Systems, Vol. 25, N. 3,
177-212, 2000.