Stefano Mazzocchi's Curriculum Vitæ

Personal Data

• Date of birth ~ January 1975
• Place of birth ~ Pavia, Italy
• Citizenship ~ italian
• Current Residency ~ Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A (permanent resident)

Education

• 2001 ~ Degree of doctor in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy, discussing the thesis Reducing The Effects Of Growth Saturation With The Adoption Of A Publishing Framework Based On XML Technologies
• 1993 ~ Diploma from Liceo Scientifico N. Copernico, Pavia, Italy
• 1992 ~ Diploma from Siuslaw High School, Florence, Oregon, U.S.A.

Professional Activities

• 2010- ~ Software Engineer at Google, Inc..
• 2008-2010 ~ Application Catalyst at Metaweb Technologies, Inc..
• 2004-2008 ~ Research Scientist at the MIT Libraries.
• 2004-2006 ~ Director and member of the board for the Apache Software Foundation.
• 2002-2005 ~ Part of the international expert group for the creation of the Java Content Repository API [JCR] (JSR-170 in the Java Community Process).
• 2000-2001 ~ Part of the international expert group for the creation of the Java API for XML [JAXP] (JSR-063 in the Java Community Process).
• 1999- ~ Member of the Apache Software Foundation
• 1998-2000 ~ Part of the international expert group for the creation of the Java Servlet API (JSR-053 in the Java Community Process).
• 1995-2003 ~ Freelance consultant on web-based information systems and software architectures.

Research Interests

• Data mining and data emergence.
• Human computation.
• Community/social engineering.
• Information visualization.
• User interface design.
• Software usability.
• Software engineering.

Activities at Metaweb Technologies, Inc.

• 2008-2010 ~ Worked on Acre, Freebase's application hosting platform (now open sourced on google code)
• 2009-2001 ~ Worked on applications and interface design for harvesting human judgments
• 2010 ~ Worked on Freebase Gridworks

Activities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

• 2004-2008 ~ Worked on the SIMILE Project, researching solutions to data interoperability problems for digital libraries using semantic web technologies.
• 2004-2008 ~ Mentored graduate students and help them transition their research from the lab into real-world use.
• 2004-2008 ~ Developer on SIMILE Longwell (faceted browser for RDF data oriented toward non-technical users).
• 2007-2008 ~ Author of SIMILE Butterfly (javascript-based modular web application framework).
• 2007-2008 ~ Author of SIMILE Timeplot (javascript widget for time series plotting).
• 2007 ~ Author of SIMILE Banach (pipeline-like framework for RDF manipulation).
• 2004-2007 ~ Installed, configured, tuned and maintained the SIMILE web site and its development infrastructure.
• 2005-2007 ~ Developer on SIMILE Piggy Bank (firefox extension that enables the extraction of data from web pages and repurpose of data, such as mashups) and SIMILE Solvent (firefox extension that helps users write javascript screen scrapers to help Piggy Bank extract data).
• 2006 ~ Author of SIMILE Referee (mines the referrer logs and extracts comments from pages that link to your web site).
• 2006 ~ Author of SIMILE Crowbar (xulrunner application capable of automating screen scraping simulating a real browser environment).
• 2004-2006 ~ Author of SIMILE Gadget (tool to analyze vast quantities of XML data).
• 2004 ~ Co-Author of SIMILE Welkin (tool to graphically visualize and debug RDF graphs).
• 2004 ~ Designed the SIMILE web site and its logo.

Activities at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

• 2006 ~ Proponent and first PMC chair of Apache Labs (committer-only innovation space for the ASF).
• 2006 ~ Mentor for Apache Harmony (clean-room java virtual machine implementation).
• 2005 ~ Re-elected member of the Board of Directors of the foundation.
• 2004 ~ Elected member of the Board of Directors of the foundation.
• 2003 ~ Author of Apache Agora (community visualizer based on mining public email conversations)
• 2003 ~ Re-elected member of the Project Management Commitee (PMC) for the Apache Jakarta Project
• 2003 ~ Elected committer on Apache Slide.
• 2003 ~ Elected officer of the foundation as chair of the Apache Cocoon Project Management Committee (PMC).
• 2003 ~ Sponsoring Member for Apache Lenya (content management system).
• 2002 ~ Sponsoring Member for Apache Xindice (native XML database).
• 2002 ~ Sponsoring Member for Apache POI (java library for the reading and writing of Microsoft Office file formats).
• 2002 ~ Proponent of Apache Forrest for the creation of a coherent publishing infrastructure for the Apache XML web site.
• 2000 ~ Sponsoring Member for Apache Batik (java library for visualizing, creating and transcoding SVG).
• 1999 ~ Elected committer on Apache Ant.
• 1999 ~ Sponsoring Member for Apache FOP (java library for XSL-FO rendering in several binary formats (PDF, MIF, PostScript).
• 1999-2000 ~ Member of the Project Management Commitee (PMC) for the Apache XML Project.
• 1999 ~ Part of the group that bootstrapped the Apache XML Project.
• 1999 ~ Member of the Project Management Commitee (PMC) for the Apache Jakarta Project.
• 1999 ~ Author of Apache Cocoon (java servlet-based publishing framework based on XML technologies)
• 1999 ~ Co-author and proponent of Apache James and co-author of the Mailet API
• 1999 ~ Co-author and proponent of Apache Avalon (java server framework)
• 1998 ~ Author and proponent of Apache JMeter (java load-stresser and web profiling tool)
• 1998-1999 ~ Part of the group that bootstrapped the Apache Jakarta Project
• 1998-1999 ~ Release coordinator for the 1.0 final version of Apache JServ
• 1997 ~ Committer for Apache JServ (java servlet engine)

Consulting and Collaborations

• 2003 ~ Agile Partners, New York, USA
• 2003 ~ Inver S.p.A., Bologna, Italy
• 2003 ~ Luminas Ltd., Norwich, UK
• 2002 ~ Pro-Netics S.r.l., Roma, Italy
• 2002 ~ Odyssey AG, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2001 ~ Consorzio di Bioingegneria e Informatica Medica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
• 2001 ~ Corbellini S.r.l., Milano, Italy
• 2000-2001 ~ Bibop Research Int., Milano, Italy
• 2000-2001 ~ Caliari Research S.p.A., Mantova, Italy
• 2000-2002 ~ SwissRisk AG, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2000 ~ Kidata AG, Germany
• 1999 ~ Oracle Sweden, Göteborg, Sweden
• 1997 ~ ComputerClinic S.r.l., Erba (CO), Italy
• 1995-1996 ~ Systemy Network S.r.l., Pavia, Italy

Conferences and Workshops

• 2009 ~ code4lib 2009, Providence, RI, USA - [keynote] A bookless future for the libraries?.
• 2007 ~ ApacheCon EU 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - A no-nonsense introduction to "semantic web" technologies.
• 2007 ~ ApacheCon EU 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - All you wanted to know about Open Development community building but didn't know who to ask.
• 2006 ~ ApacheCon 2006, Austin, TX, U.S.A. - All you wanted to know about Open Development community building but didn't know who to ask.
• 2006 ~ ApacheCon 2006, Austin, TX, U.S.A. - A no-nonsense introduction to "semantic web" technologies.
• 2006 ~ Keane Excellence and Architecture Program, Boston, MA, USA - Toward a Web of Data.
• 2006 ~ ExpertZone Development Summit 2006, Stockholm, Sweden - Toward a Web of Data.
• 2005 ~ International Semantic Web Conference, Galway, Irland - (with David Huynh and David Karger) Piggy Bank: Experience the Semantic Web Inside Your Web Browser.
• 2005 ~ LOTS, Bern, Switzerland - [keynote] Please stand by while we reboot the web....
• 2005 ~ Comparative Media Studies Symposiums, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA - The Free and Open Source Software Movement.
• 2004 ~ FoafCamp/EuroFoo 2004, Eschede, The Netherlands.
• 2004 ~ OSCON 2004, Portland, OR, U.S.A - (with Ryan Lee) - Darwinian Software Development.
• 2004 ~ WWW14, New York City, NY, U.S.A. - SIMILE: objectives, status and demo
• 2004 ~ CIDOC CRM Workshop, Heraklion, Greece - The SIMILE Project.
• 2004 ~ DSpace Federation Usergroup Meeting, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. - (with Ben Hyde) - The why and the how of Open Source Software: perspectives from the Apache Software Foundation.
• 2003 ~ ComDEX 2003, Las Vegas, NE, U.S.A. - How the Apache Software Foundation works.
• 2003 ~ ApacheCon 2003, Las Vegas, NE, U.S.A. - How the Apache Software Foundation works.
• 2003 ~ ApacheCon 2003, Las Vegas, NE, U.S.A. - Virtual Community Dynamics.
• 2003 ~ ApacheCon 2003, Las Vegas, NE, U.S.A. - Past, Present and Future of the Apache Cocoon Project.
• 2003 ~ II Cocoon GetTogether - Ghent, Belgium: What is Cocoon: a visual journey.
• 2003 ~ I Ecuadorian Conference on Open Source and Free Software - Quito, Ecuador: The Philosophical Differences Between Open Source and Free Software.
• 2002 ~ MARS Exploratory Media Lab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Sankt Augustin, Bonn, Germany - Expert Workshop: Perspectives on Networked Knowledge Spaces - The Economy of Distributed Metadata Authoring
• 2002 ~ Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy - Workshop - Modelli di sviluppo del software nelle comunità open source di Apache (Models of software development inside the Apache open source community)
• 2002 ~ Open Content Management Conference, Zurich, Switzerland - Enabling Semantic Searching.
• 2001 ~ Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy - Workshop - Il web di seconda generazione (The second generation web)
• 2000 ~ ApacheCon 2000 Europe, Londra, U.K. - Toward the semantic web: a review of XML from outer space.
• 2000 ~ ApacheCon 2000, Orlando, FL, U.S.A. - Adding XML Capabilities with Cocoon.
• 1999 ~ JavaOne '99, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. - partecipating at Q&A session at the end of the presentation of the Servlet API as part of the expert group.
• 1998 ~ ApacheCon '98, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. - (with Pierpaolo Fumagalli) - Advanced Apache JServ Tecniques.
• 1998 ~ ApacheCon '98, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. - (with Pierpaolo Fumagalli) - Servlet Performance and Apache JServ.