Curriculum Vitae
Summary
Co-founder of Shair.Tech, a socially-vocated innovative startup developing ICT solutions to help recover surplus food. Clients include Banco Alimentare and various other collection networks.
Before that, I wrote two books, Introduction to Software Project Management and Design and Assessment of Safety Critical Systems, worked on the assessment of safety critical systems, built an e-voting machine, and led, for a while, the ICT4G group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler.
I am so -old- ahem, experienced, my PhD was on Artificial Intelligence, before it became fashionable again.
Work Experience
- 2021 – today: Co-founder, Shair.Tech
Co-founder of Shair.Tech a startup developing technologies to help recover surplus food and goods
- 2019 – 2024: Senior Research Associate, Rhodes University
Onorary appointment as Senior Research Associate in the School of Journalism And Media Studies
- 2019: Member, Provincia autonoma di Trento
Member of the exam commission for hiring lab technicians in Schools of the Autonomous Province of Trento
- 2008 – today: Head of Unit, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Head of the ICT4G unit, which focuses on how ICT can foster social and economic development. Clients include CIR-Food, the Italian Food Bank, the World Bank, and Whirlpool; research projects financed by the European Union, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Autonomous Province of Trento.
- 2004 – 2008: R2 Researcher, Istituto Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
Responsible of the e-Democracy exploratory project, whose goal is using IT to foster new forms of participation to public and political life. Responsible of the ProVotE project, during which we built an eVoting machine used by about 20.000 citizens in different experimentations during elections. The system was used by about 2.000 people in two elections with legal value. In the period 2005-2007 I was responsible of the RCC (Regional Competence Centre) of the Autonomous Province of Trento, which had the goal of promoting the transition of the Public Administration to eGovernment services. In the same period I worked for the eSociety Committee of the Autonomous Province of Trento, that outlined the roadmap for the development of electronic services in Trentino. In the period 2004-2006 I worked on the Indo-Trento agreement (ITPAR), to foster collaboration among Indian and Italian research centres.
- 2003: Self Employed,
Consultant on software management methodologies and project manager. Among the clients, the Autonomous Province of Trento, the University of Trento, and IRST.
- 2002: Consultant, University of Trento
Consultant for the University of Trento in a project related to the use of UML and to the customisation of Rational Rose for the documentation of the business processes of the University.
- 2001: Consultant, University of Trento
Consultant in a project related to testing the SAP system installed at the University of Trento.
- 1997 – 2003: R1 Researcher, Istituto Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
Project member and project leader in various technology transfer projects in the safety critical sector.
- 1992 – 1996: Consultant, University of Genoa
Consultant in various software development projects, developed in various languages, among which C, Emacs Lisp, Hypercard.
Teaching
- 2021: Web Internet Technologies
Contract Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Bolzano
- 2020 – 2021: Computational Logic
Contract Assistant Professor, Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento
- 2017 – 2018: Advanced Software Engineering
Contract Professor, Information and Business Organisation Engineering, University of Trento
- 2011 – 2016: Software Project Management
Contract Professor, Information and Business Organisation Engineering, University of Trento
- 2005 – 2009: Software Project Management
Contract Professor, Computer Science, University of Trento
- 2004: Software Development: Advanced Topics
Contract Professor, Computer Science, University of Trento
- 2000 – 2004: Software Engineering
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, University of Trento
- 1997: Compilers and Translators
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, University of Trento
- 1993 – 1997: ISO-OSI communication layers, C, UNIX, Office automation
Instructor, , Hewlett-Packard, ISVOR-FIAT, SOGEA, CONSORZIO GENOVA FORMAZIONE
Other
- 2015 – today: Giuria Premio Nazionale Divulgazione Scientifica, Member
Member of the Jury assigning the National Prize for Scientific Writing.
- 2015: Italian Cooperation in Maputo, Mozambique, Consultant
Consultant for the Italian Cooperation in Maputo, to support the reform of the Ministry of Education in Mozambique.
- 2015: Estonian Research Council, Project Reviewer
Reviewer of a project proposal for the Estonian Research Council.
- 2014: Italian Cooperation in Maputo, Mozambique, Consultant
Consultant for the Italian Cooperation in Maputo, to support the reform of Eduardo Mondlane University.
- 2004 – 2006: , Team Member
Member of the ITPAR (Indo-Trento agreement) delegation, whose goal is fostering collaboration among Indian and Italian research centres.
Volunteer
- 2018: Teacher, Fikisolo Elementary School
Teacher of the Hour of Code
- 2015 – 2017: Teacher, Liceo Antonio Rosmini
Volunteer teacher of Computer Science in courses delivered to the inmates of Trento’s Prison. Topics include Office, the Hour of Code, and introduction to programming with the Logo language.
- 2016: Teacher, Artea and Comunità della Vallagarina
Teacher of the Hour of Code
- 2017: Teacher, Ora del Codice e Cibopoli
Teacher of the Hour of Code and Cibopoli (an educational game to improve eating habits and reduce food waste).
Publications
- Adolfo Villafiorita, “Introduction to Software Project Management” CRC Press, 2014
- (as editors) Paolo Costa, Claudio Ferlan and Adolfo Villafiorita, “Chi Porta da Mangiare, il cibo tra eccessi e scarsità” FBK Press, 2013
- Adolfo Villafiorita and Marco Bozzano, “Design and Safety Assessment of Critical Systems” CRC Press, 2010
Talks
- “DIGITAL URBAN FOOD RECOVERY”: Meno spreco in città, più sostegno alla povertà Social Innovation Campus, Fondazione Triulza (2021-02-09)
- Innovazione sociale, terzo settore e impact financing Live on Zoom, Industrio Panels (2021-12-14)
- BringTheFood, l’applicazione web per il recupero delle eccedenze Ecoforum Veneto - VI Edizione (2021-12-01)
- Economia Circolare: coprogettare un’esperienza di didattica innovativa interdisciplinare Live on Zoom, FORMID Training Event (2021-12-10)
- Bites of Food Live on Zoom, FOODCAS 2021 (2021-05-29)
- From a linear to a circular model for economy Live on Zoom, University of Trento (2020-10-28)
- Rifiuti che diventano utili Museo delle Scienze, Trento (2020-10-21)
- EAT-Circular Recorded Material on https://reducefoodprint.org/eatc (Set-Oct 2020)
- Cibo, Rifiuti (organici ed elettronici) ed Economia Circolare Recorded Material on https://sites.google.com/fbk.eu/covidscuola/i-corsi/cibo-rifiuti-ed-economia-circolare (2020-09-28)
- Il progetto RePlay Festival Sostenibilità ASVIS (2020-09-27)
- Avanzi Popolo Osteria Storica Morelli (2019-11-15)
- Convengo sull’economia circolare FBK, via Santa Croce 77 (2019-11-08)
- Che gusto c’è? Il cibo tra scarsità ed eccessi Festival della Scienza di Genova, 2019 (2019-10-27)
- Intervento su Rifiuti Elettronici Liceo Da Vinci (2019-10-23)
- Seminario IPRASE su Rifiuti Elettronici a Insegnanti Progetto AWARE, FBK (2019-10-03)
- BringTheFood Skill-Sharing Session in Milan on \“Recovery from Food service is possible!\” (2019-10-15)
- Ciclo di Interventi su Rifiuti Elettronici e Economia Circolare Liceo Leonardo Da Vinci, Trento (2019-03-13)
- Intervento su Rifiuti Elettronici e Economia Circolare Scuola Media A. Eccher Dall’eco (2019-03-08)
- Intervento su Rifiuti Elettronici e Economia Circolare Istituto Tecnico Buonnaroti, Trento (2019-05-17)
- Intervento su Rifiuti Elettronici e Economia Circolare Liceo Copernico, Bologna (2019-02-06)
- Tavolo di Lavoro Il FoodTech Sostenibile CIRFOOD Food Innovation District, Milano (2019-04-17)
- Intervento su Rifiuti Elettronici e Economia Circolare (aspetti etici) Licei Fontana e Depero, preso Progetto Manifattura Rovereto (2018-12-04)
- Intervento su Rifiuti Eletronici e Economia Circolare (aspetti etici) Licei Rosa Bianca e Ladina di Fassa, Fassa (2018-12-05)
- Ciclo di Interventi su Rifiuti Elettronici e Economia Circolare Istituto Artigianelli, Trento (2018-11-15)
- BringTheFood Workshop Le Startup dell’Agrifood - Green Logistics Expo, Padova (2018-03-08)
- Informatica per lo Sviluppo Sociale e Economico Internazionalizzare per lo Sviluppo, TCIC, Trento (2017-03-31)
- Bring The Food RICIBO - una rete per trasformare lo spreco in risorsa, Genova (2017-03-15)
- Essere virtuosi a tavola fa bene all’ambiente? MuSE - Museo della Scienza, Trento (2016-11-30)
- Cibo per tutti fra spreco ed un pianeta che cambia Comune di San Michele all’Adige (2016-05-02)
- Quick Development of Webapps in Ruby On Rails ITPMI Webinar (2018-11-06)
- Developing the System Interoperability Plan for the eGov Systems of Mozambique ITPMI Webinar (2016-04-20)
- Managing IT Projects for Social Development ITPMI Webinar (2015-11-17)
- Managing IT Projects in a Developing Country ITPMI Webinar (2015-10-13)
- ICT4G and Technologies Servicing Social Development Sviluppare il Futuro, Fondazione Caritro, via Garibaldi, Trento (2013-05-22)
- BringTheFood Food for Thought, via Santa Croce 77 (2012-12-13)
- BringTheFood, an Application to Reduce Food Waste Green Social Festival - Emilia Romagna una Regione Sostenibile, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna (2013-05-03)
- The Mozambique-Trentino Interoperability Framework Euro-Africa week on ICT REsearch and Infrastructure Helsinki (2010-12-08)
- Development and Verification of the Control Logic of an eVoting System: the ProVotE experience ETH, Zurich (2006)
- Transitioning to eVoting: The ProVotE project and the Trentino’s Experience IIT, Mumbai (2005)
- Eclipse and Rational Experiences at ITC-irst IBM Technical Briefing, Trento (2003-10-26)
- A tool-bashed methodology for managing the business process documentation of the University of Trento SUM - Scuola di Management, Trento (2003-03-13)
- Capabilities and limits of (digital) critical systems International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts, Trento (2002-08-13)
Visits
- 2018: Visiting Scholar, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Visiting scholar of the Computer Science Department of Rhodes University, thanks to FBK’s Mobility programme.
- 1995 – 1996: Visiting Scholar, Formal Reasoning Group, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
During my visit to the group directed by John Mc Carthy I worked under the supervision of Richard Weyhrauch and Carolyn Talcott on abstraction and inductive theorem proving.
- 1992: Visiting Scholar, Artificial Intelligence Department, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
During my visit to the group directed by Alan Bundy’s I worked under the supervision of Toby Walsh on abstraction and inductive theorem proving. The visit was (partially) covered by one the first Erasmus grants.