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Flora Amato is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies of the University of Naples Federico II, where she has been carrying out her research and teaching activities since 2006 in the fields of Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine and Deep Learning.
She teaches Computer Programming, I.S. and Business Intelligence in the Degree Course in Computer Engineering, Hardware and Software Architectures for Big Data and Text Mining in the Degree Course in Data Science at the University of Naples Federico II. She is a member of the doctoral board of the PhD Course in Computational and Quantitative Biology and the Scientific Committee of the master's degree Course in Artificial Intelligence and Ethics at the same University.
She graduated cum laude in Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences at the University Federico II of Naples in 2005. She received in 2009 the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Computer and Control Engineering at the same University. She was a visiting researcher at the Dipartimento de Ciències de la Computació of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) in 2013 and at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Maryland (Washington DC, USA) in 2015.
Flora Amato serves as the head of the Laboratory IDEA: Intelligent Data-driven Systems Lab, where she guides and directs research and development in intelligent data-driven systems.
She is the author of more than 190 scientific papers published in prestigious international journals and conference proceedings, such as
IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Internet of Things Journal
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
Elsevier Journal of Neurocomputing, Knowledge-Based Systems,
Pattern Recognition Letters, Computers and Security,
Computers and Electrical Engineering,
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory,
Future Generation Computer Systems
Springer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications
Transactions on Data Privacy
She has more than 2200 citations on Scopus and 2800 on Scholar, with an H-index of 32 on Scopus and 35 on Scholar.
She was included in the Top 2% list of authors with the most citations in the world.
In her career, she served as Associate Editor and Editor of Special Issue for many International Scientific Journals.
She was Program or General Chair of many international conferences, participated in more than 40 Program Committees of International Conferences, and was a member of the Review Committee of more than 70 International Journals and Conferences.
She was invited as Keynote Speaker at the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (35th AINA-21) to present the role of Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0; and gave the Keynote speech on Semantic Interoperability for Domain Knowledge Governance at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Dir. E Space, Security and Migration, Cyber and Digital Citizens' Security. In 2019 she won the Best Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2019) and in 2017 she won the Best Paper award at the 11th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2017). In 2010, she won the national "Working Capital" award for the best research projects, promoted by Telecom Italia S.p.A., and obtained funds to design a semantic search platform. In 2009, she won the 'Scrivi il Futuro' award for the best research projects proposed by PhD students from scientific faculties.
She has participated as a Scientific Coordinator in many international and national projects and has also served as a Work Package or Task Leader. She is:
Principal Investigator for the University of Naples Federico II of the European Project CREA3 - Conflict Resolution with Equitative Algorithms. Grant number: 101160564. Grant amount: 799.386.00 euro.
Scientific Coordinator for the University of Naples Federico II of the European Project CREA2 "Conflict Resolution with Equitative Algorithms 2". Grant 101046629. Total Grant Amount: 710.838.45 €. UNINA Grant Amount: 127,597.50 euro.
Scientific Coordinator for the University of Naples Federico II of the European Project I-tools to Design and Enhance Access to justice. Grant number: 101160528. . Total Grant Amount: 747.451,00 euro. UNINA Grant Amount: 152.828,00 euro.
Scientific Coordinator for the University of Naples Federico II of the European Project DEUCE, Digitalising European Uncontested Claims Enforcement. Grant 101138437. Total Grant Amount: 771,766.00 euro. UNINA Grant Amount: 192,215.00 euro.
Principal Investigator for the PNRR Project “Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)” Spoke 3 Resilient AI – CUP E63C22002150007, W.P. 3.3 “Resilient multi-task learning on the edge from incomplete and/or noisy data”, funded under the PNRR Extended Partnerships. UNINA Total Budget (not managed by me): 5.703.895 euro.
Scientific Coordinator for the DIETI - UNINA for the MISE Project AI4Heritage Prot. nr: 61521 del 13/03/2024 - AOOIncentivi FCS - Accordi per l’innovazione di cui al D.M. 31.12. 2021 e D.D. 14.11.2022. Quota Progetto 1,5 M. Quota DIETI: 222.187,50 euro.
Leader of Work Package 4-Informatics of the European CREA project, Conflict Resolution with Equitative Algorithms. Grant Agreement number: 766463.
Principal Investigator of the BOSON Research Project: Behavior analysis of Online conducts on SOcial Networks, funded by the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 2019.
Scientific Coordinator, for the unit of CeRICT scrl 'Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology', of the project PON03PE_00159_5 Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), PON Research and Competitiveness 2007-2013. She was Leader of task 5.2 of the DATTILO PON03PE_00159_1 NEMBO Project: Study and experimentation of innovative "EMBedded" systems characterised by high efficiency for railway applications. PON Research and Competitiveness 2007-2013. She was Leader of tasks 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6 of the BIG4H project - Big Data Analytics for ehealth applications, POR Campania FESR 2007-2013, Axis 2, OO 2.1, D.D. N.1 05/02/2014. Leader of the task 1.4 of the Project MyOpenGov, Bando per la Concessione di Aiuti a Progetti di Ricerca Industriale e Sviluppo Sperimentale POR Campania 2007/2013.
She has participated as a Scientific Coordinator in many Agreement for Research and Didactical Activities. She is:
Scientific Coordinator of the Agreement for Research Activities between the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies of the University of Naples, Federico II and the Consortium Meditech - Mediterranean Competence Centre 4 Innovation, for the performance of Research activities on the NETTUNO Project - CUP I95F21000900005. Euro 29,700.00 plus VAT. 1/06/2022 - 31/10/2023.
Scientific Responsible for the Teaching Agreement of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - University of Naples Federico II with Micron Technology for Courses on Deep Learning on Integrated Systems. Amount of 15,000.00 (plus VAT). 1/01/2024 - 31/12/2024
Scientific Officer of the Agreement for the Execution of Research Tranche of the SOCRATE Project: Intelligent Solutions For Road Safety. CUP B32C18000260007 D.D. n.83 of 09/23/2021 - Grant Deed Prot. n.40 of 10/19/2021 between the following parties: Technology, Environment, Safety, Transport - TEST S.c.ar.l., and CeSMA - Center for Advanced Metrological and Technological Services of the University of Naples Federico II. 19/12/2022 - 31/12/2023. Total Amount: 40 000 euros (plus VAT).
Scientific Coordinator for the Teaching Agreement of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - University of Naples Federico II with the Italian Aerospace Research Center - CIRA for Courses on Python. Amount of 6,240.00 (plus VAT). 22/02/2022 - 31/03/2023
Co-responsible for the Agreement for research activities between the Consortium Meditech - Mediterranean Competence Centre 4 Innovation and Centro Servizi Metrologici e Tecnologici Avanzati of the University of Naples Federico II, for activities on “Identification and technical insight on machine learning and computer vision algorithms applied to the aerospace industry sector and related to the scope of intervention Health Management and maintenance of structures and systems”, in the amount of 54,000.00 euros (plus VAT). 21/12/2022 - 1/10/2022
Scientific Responsible for the Agreement for Training Activities between CeRICT - Regional Center Information Communication Technology, Benevento via Traiano “Palazzo ex Poste”, 82100, P. IVA: 01346480625, www.cerict.it and the company Micron Semiconductor Italia S.r.l. Via Remo de Feo 1 80022 Arzano (NA). Amount 15,000 euros (plus VAT). 16/5/2017 - 19/10/2017
Scientific Responsible for the Convention for Research Activities between CeRICT Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology, Benevento via Traiano “Palazzo ex Poste”, 82100, P. IVA: 01346480625, www.cerict.it and the company KIRANET srl, located at via Giotto 70, 81031 Aversa (CE), www.kiranet.it. The agreement was signed on activities related to the FidMed project, a research project co-financed under the Special Revolving Fund for Technological Innovation (FIT) ex Law No. 46 of 17/02/82 managed by the Ministry of Economic Development.Amount 25.000 euros (plus VAT). 27/10/2014 - 08/06/2015
She co-founded 'Data Jam' s.r.l., a spin-off of the University of Naples Federico II, entered on 23/09/2020 in the Register of Companies of Naples, Ordinary Section. She has participated in numerous regional, national and European projects.
She is a member of 'PICUSlab', a laboratory at the University of Naples Federico II that deals with Big Data analysis in specialistic field . She is a member of the Italian Association for Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning . She is a member of the National Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent System. She is a member of the Machine Intelligence Research MIR Labs, a global academic consortium focused on innovation and research excellenc .
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