Alfonso Urso
Head of Palermo Branch
E-mail: alfonso.urso[at]icar.cnr.it
Phone: +39 0918031025
Alfonso Urso received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude), and the Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Palermo, Italy, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. In 1998, he was with the Department of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Palermo, as a Research Associate. In 2000, he joined the High-Performance Computing and Networking Institute of the Italian National Research Council (ICAR-CNR), where he is currently a Researcher in systems and computer engineering. In 2006, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Konstanz, Germany. From 2007 to 2015, he coordinated the research group “Intelligent Data Analysis for Bioinformatics” at the CNR. Since January 2016, he has been Head of the Palermo branch of ICAR-CNR. Since 2001, he has been a Lecturer at the University of Palermo, where he currently teaches Computer Network Security in the Master’s Degree in Computer Science. His research interests focus on machine learning, soft computing, and their applications to bioinformatics. Dr. Urso is a member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) and the Italian Bioinformatics Society (BITS).
Mario Ciampi
Head of Naples Branch
E-mail: mario.ciampi[at]icar.cnr.it
Phone: +39 081.6139517
Mario Ciampi is a Technology Director at the Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), where he conducts research and technological development in the field of information systems and interoperability of complex systems. He leads the research group “PRISMA – Platforms for Research on Interoperability and Security of Middleware Architectures” at ICAR. Since 2009, he has been actively involved in institutional initiatives aimed at promoting interoperability of Electronic Health Record IT systems at the national and European level. He has held leadership roles in numerous research projects funded by the European Commission, national Ministries, and regional authorities. He is the author of over 100 scientific and technical publications. He serves as a reviewer for European and national research projects and is a member of editorial boards and program committees of scientific journals and conferences. He is also involved in the supervision of undergraduate and doctoral theses. From 2012 to 2025, he served as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He is a member of the Board of Directors of HL7 Italy, of the UNI Steering Committee on Digitalization, and of the UNINFO Technical Committee on Medical Informatics. He is a co-founder of SIBIM and a former member of the Board of Directors of @ITIM. He received his Master’s degree in Computer Engineering (2004) from the University of Naples “Federico II”, a first-level postgraduate Master’s degree in Critical Networked Systems (2007), and a PhD in Information Engineering (2011) from the University of Naples “Parthenope”.