Luigi Selmi

Luigi Selmi is a research fellow at the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research of the Italian National Research Council headquartered in Montelibretti, north-east of Rome, where he works on satellite imagery, air quality and climate data analysis. He works also as a freelance scientific software engineer currently collaborating with the Joint Research Center of the European Commission. He worked as a software engineer in many public and private organisations in Italy, Switzerland and Germany. In Germany he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems in EU funded research projects and in industry projects in partnership with German and European companies. His research focus was data integration using Semantic Web technologies, Big Data applications and Machine Learning. The Semantic Web and Big Data were also his focus at the E-Government Institute of the Bern University of Applied Sciences. He worked as a consultant in software development projects in Italy at various multinational companies such as Ericsson, Marconi Communications, Accenture, and Italian government institutions. He graduated in Physics at the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on Atmospheric Physics and Laser Radar Remote Sensing under the supervision of Prof. Giorgio Fiocco. He has co-authored papers on Semantic Web, E-Government and Remote Sensing. His main interests are artificial intelligence, algorithms, computer vision, earth observation and remote sensing, open source software development and open data.