FERDINANDO CHIACCHIO
Plac e and Date of birth Address
E-Mail Phone Web Site Nationality
E D U C A T I O N
ACADEMIC TEACHING E XP E R I E N C E S
NON ACADEMIC TEACHING E XP E R I E N C E S
Acireale, 28/03/1981
Viale Principe Amedeo 64, Acireale (CT) [email protected]; [email protected] +393287171803. +393887980261
http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/
Italian
November 2009 – May 2010
Visiting PhD at Duke University, Duke High Availability Assurance Lab” (DHAAL), Raleigh (US)
Projects: Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Sensor Networks; Importance Measure for Dynamic Fault Tree;
July 2010 – September 2010
International School of Scientific Computation and MATLAB Topic: “Matlab and Grid computing”.
November 2007 - October 2010
PhD in Applied Mathematical Engineering at University of Catania.
Research Interest: Stochastic Modeling, Markov Chain, Monte Carlo
Simulation, RAMS, PRA, HAZOP, FMEA, Models and Simulation of the immune system.
Thesis Title: “Dynamic models and importance measures for the reliability evaluation in complex systems”
October 1999 - July 2005
MSc (5 years), Computer Engineering at University of Catania.
Thesis Title: “A decentralized control for the locomotion of a six legged robot based on a Integrate & Fire neural network”.
Thesis Topic: “A software implementation of a bio-inspired neural network for automotive control with the C language”. Score: 110/110 cum laude
September 2003 - March 2004 Erasmus project at Leeds University.
September 2007-September 2008
Tutor Assistant – “ Mathematics, Statistics and Informatics” for the course of Pharmacy, Instructor: Prof. Santo Motta, 2008-2011.
October 2011- October 2012
Lecturer of Informatics for the course of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology of University of Messina.
January 2012- October 2012
Lecturer of Informatics for the internal course of the SSC (Scuola Superiore di Catania), University of Catania
2008 – 2012
Several Private School of Refresher Courses:
Lecturer of Informatics, Electronics and Photovoltaic systems
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
L A N G U A G E S
Aug 2012 –
Postdoc for the Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineerings
Main Researches: Performability of Communication Protocols for industrial and home building; Stochastic modeling and Software developments (C, Java, Python, Ruby, Matlab, Octave) and HPC programming; Mathematical models and simulation for Immunomics Teaching activity and tutoring: Informatics and Mathematics
Jan 2008 –
Part-time collaboration with EUSService Srl
Energy Consultant : design, installation and lecturers of photovoltaic plants.
January 2011 – July 2012
Postdoc for the Department of Industrial Engineerings
Main Researches: Reliability and Stochastic modeling for the risk assessment of Industrial Plants; Dependability models for Performance evaluation; Software developments; Mathematicals models and simulation for Immunomics (C, Java, Python, Perl, Matlab).
November 2007 - October 2010
PhD in Applied Mathematical Engineering at University of Catania.
Research Interest: Stochastic Modeling, Markov Chain, Monte Carlo
Simulation, RAMS, PRA, HAZOP, FMEA, Models and Simulation of the immune system.
Thesis Title: “Dynamic models and importance measures for the reliability evaluation in complex systems”
January 2007 – December 2007 Full-time employ at EUSService
Energy Consultant: design, installation and lecture of photovoltaic plants.
Jan 2007 – Jul 2007
Part-time collaboration with Netskin Srl Web Site Analyst and developer.
December 2005 – December 2006 Full-time employ at IWBank SPA
Java Software Analyst: development of the banking service, J2EE Technology
Italian: native.
English: excellent French: scholar
HA R D S K I L L S Advanced Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications:
Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint Designer, etc.
Computer Skills:
OS: Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, Slackware), Android.
Mathematical Framework: Matlab, Octave.
IDE: Eclipse, .Net, VisualRuby
Web and Application Server: Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, ATG Dynamo.
Software Language: C, Perl, C++, JAVA, Python, Ruby, Oracle, PHP, HTML, Javascript, Ajax.
Performability Software (Reliability, Safety, etc.): Mobius, Relex, PEPA, PRISM, Model Checking, IMC, SHARPE, Galileo, RAATSS, MatCarloRE etc.
Other applications: Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Operative
Research, Data Mining, etc.
S O F T S K I L LS Team working; Objective oriented; Lateral Thinking; Problem solving;
Perform well under pressure.
SOFTWARE PROJECTS
2013:
1) jCTMCSolver, a analytic solver for Continuous Time Markov Chains (University of Catania), available online. Main Technology: Java, AWT, Swing(GUI),
Web: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/?m=5&project=jctmcsolver 2012:
1) OPC UA Performance Simulator (University of Catania), available online. Main Technology: C++, Octave (Matlab like framework), Linux.
Web: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/projects/opc_ua_sim/.
2) RAATSS, the Reliability-Availability Adaptive Transition Systems Simulator (University of Catania). Main Technology: Java AWT, Swing, Matlab and Multiprocessor programming,
Web: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/projects/?m=5&project=raatss.
3) jATSS, GUI Designer for Adaptive Transition Systems and Simulator.
Main Technology: Java AWT, Swing (GUI), C code for the simulator engine. (under development)
4) Automatic Examination platform (University of Messina) Main Technology: php, mysql, javascript.
2011:
1) MatCarloRE, a Montecarlo Simulator for the evaluation of Reliability and Importance Measures of Dynamic Fault Tree (University of Catania).
Main Technology: Java AWT, Swing, Matlab and Multiprocessor programming.
Web:
http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/projects/?m=5&project=matcarlore.
2) Immunogrid Simulator: Optimal Vaccination Scheduling (University of Catania). Main Technology: C and HPC programming (GRID).
3) wFCMS, webFantacalcio Management and Statistics. Main Technology: php, mysql, javascript, ajax, google api. Web site: online
2009-2010:
Several commercial website: EuSService, Il Sogno diventa Realtà, WebScuba (in collaboration with NetSkin Srl). Main Technology: CMS (Wordpress, Joomla), php, mysql, ajax, javascript.
2008:
1) Immunogrid Simulator, Triplex Vaccine (University of Catania). Main Technology: C and GRID programming.
2006:
1) Corporate Administration (IWBank SPA). Main Technology: J2EE, Struts.
2) IWSmile 1.0: the paypal-like banking service of IWBank (IWBank SPA). Main Technology: J2EE, ATG Dynamo.
PUBBLICATIONS
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
• Analysis of OPC UA Performances - S. Cavalieri and F. Chiacchio, Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2012 (under review)
• Cancer vaccines: state of the art of computational modeling - F.
Pappalardo, F. Chiacchio and S. Motta, Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, BioMed Research International Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 106407, 6 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/106407
• Optimal vaccination schedule search using genetic algorithm over MPI technology - C. Calonaci, F. Chiacchio and F. Pappalardo, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012, 12:129 doi:10.1186/1472-6947-12-129
• Limiting the Loss of Information in KNXnet/IP on Congestion Conditions - S. Cavalieri, F. Chiacchio, Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2012 (under review)
• The dynamic-to-static conversion of Dynamic Fault Trees using Stochastic Dependency Graphs and Stochastic Activity Networks - F.
Chiacchio, G. Manno, Engineering (www.scirp.org/journal/eng), 2013 (accepted)
• Conception of Repairable Dynamic Fault Trees and Resolution by the use of RAATSS, a Matlab® Toolbox based on the ATS formalism - G.
Manno, F. Chiacchio, D. D'Urso, N. Trapani, L. Compagno, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2012 (under review)
• A Weibull-based modular approach for the reliability of Dynamic Fault Trees, F. Chiacchio et al., Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Volume 109, January 2013, Pages 45–52, 2012
• Mathematical modeling of the immune system recognition to mammary carcinoma antigen - C. Bianca, F. Chiacchio, F. Pappalardo and Marzio Pennisi, BMC Bioinformatics, 2012
• MatCarloRe: an integrated FT and Monte Carlo Simulink tool for the reliability assessment of dynamic fault tree - G. Manno, F. Chiacchio, D. D'Urso, N. Trapani, L. Compagno, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 39, Issue 12, (September 2012), pp. 10334–
10342, doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2011.12.020
• Dynamic fault tree resolution: a conscious trade-off between analytical and simulative approaches – F. Chiacchio, D. D’Urso, G. Manno, N.
Trapani, L. Compagno, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Volume 96, issue 11 (November, 2011), pp. 1515-1526. ISSN:0951- 8320, DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.06.014
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
• A SAN Model for the Analysis of the Flow Control Congestion Mechanism of KNXnet/IP, S. Cavalieri, F. Chiacchio - in Proceedings IECON 2012, October 2012, Montreal.
• A Stochastic Activity Networks Model for the Performance Evaluation of the KNXnet/IP Flow Control Mechanism, Salvatore Cavalieri and Ferdinando Chiacchio, in Proceedings of ETFA 2012, Krakov.
• RAATSS, an extensible Matlab® toolbox for the evaluation of repairable dynamic fault trees, G. Manno, F. Chiacchio*, D. D'Urso, N.
Trapani, L. Compagno - in Proceedings PSAM 11 & ESREL 2012, ISBN:
978 162 276 4365, June 2012, Helsinky.
• A model of cytotoxic T antitumor activation stimulated by pulsed dendritic cells, Pennisi, M., Pappalardo, F., Chiacchio, F., Motta, S. - AIP Conference Proceedings 1389, 2011, pp. 1236-1239
• An open-source application to model and solve dynamic fault tree of
real industrial systems – F. Chiacchio et al., in proceedings of SKIMA, 2011.
• The ImmunoGrid Simulator: How to Use It - Pappalardo, F., Halling- Brown, M., Pennisi, M., Chiacchio, F., Sansom, C.E., Shepherd, A.J., Moss, D.S., Motta, S., Brusic, V. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics,6160, 1-19. 2010
• Cancer Immunoprevention: What Can We Learn From in silico Models? - Pappalardo, F., Pennisi, M., Cincotti, A., Chiacchio, F., Motta, S., Lollini, P.-L. (2010), Proceedings of 2010 International conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2010), in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), 93, 111-118. 2010
• GRIDUISS - A Grid based Universal Immune System Simulator framework, Pappalardo, F., Pennisi, M., Chiacchio, F., Motta, S., Proceeding ICIC'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications: intelligent computing Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg ©2010 table of contents ISBN:3-642-14921-9 978-3-642-14921-4 2010
• A Fuzzy Approach To The Fta Technique To Match Simplicity And Accuracy: Application To An Air Separation Plant - Compagno,L., Chiacchio,F., Cutruri,S., Trapani,N. Proceedings of The International Workshop on Applied Modelling and Simulation, Buzios (BRA), 2010, pp. 427-434, ISBN: 978-85-285-0135-3.
• A biological optimization problem on the Grid -Pennisi,M., Pappalardo,F., Mastriani,E., Chiacchio,F., Motta,S. Final Workshop of Grid Projects, PON Ricerca 2000-2006, no. 1575, ISBN:978-88-95892- 02-3, pp. 403-410. 2009
• Coding Softly a SME-Targeted Information System: towards the lean ERP age - D'Urso,D., Giordano,D., Maiorana,F., Chiacchio,F. MITIP 2009, Proceedings, 123-130 , ISBN: 978-88-89555-09-05, 2009
BOOK CHAPTER
GRID Computing and Computational Immunology – Ferdinando Chiacchio and Francesco Pappalardo (2011), Computational Biology and Applied Bioinformatics, Prof. Heitor Lopes (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-
629-4, InTech, Available from:
http://www.intechopen.com/books/computational-biology-and-applied- bioinformatics/grid-computing-and-computational-immunology.
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