Giorgio Ventre

Biografia

Giorgio Ventre is Full Professor of Computer Networks at the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering of the University of Napoli Federico II. He owns a Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering and a PhD in Computer Engineering, both from the University of Napoli Federico II.
From 1991 to 1993 he was Postdoctoral Fellow with the Tenet Group at the International Computer Science Institute e the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1993 he leads the research group on networks and multimedia communications at Federico II ( www.comics.unina.it ).
In 2000 he co-founded ITEM, the National Research Laboratory in Multimedia Communications of the Italian University Consortium on Informatics (CINI – www.consorzio-cini.it ), that he directed from 2000 to 2004 and from 2013 to 2015. From 2003 to 2011 he was President and CEO of the Consorzio Campano di Ricerca per l’Informatica e l’Automazione Industriale (CRIAI), one of the few examples of public-private partnership in Southern Italy in industrial research.
From his research he co-founded several start-ups: Tipic, Meetecho, NM2, RISLab. In partnership with Finmeccanica (now Leonardo) and Esaote he contributed to create two research labs in the areas of Software for Mission Critical Applications (COSMIC) and of Advanced Medical Imaging (ESALAB).
From January 2016 to December 2021 he has been Chair of the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering of the University of Napoli Federico II (DIETI). With more than 170 academics, 8 undergraduate Corsi di Laurea (degree courses), 7 postgraduate Corsi di Laurea Magistrale (master degree courses), three PhD programs and with almost 8.000 students, DIETI is one of the largest dept. in Italy in the area of Information and Electrical Engineering and it is ranked among the best in both teaching and research. Recently, DIETI was selected within the “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza” initiative by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research with a project on ICT for Health who was ranked in the top 10% of the proposals.
Giorgio Ventre is Scientific Director of the Apple Developer Academy ( www.developeracademy.unina.it ), a partnership between Federico II and Apple to form the App developers and professionals of the future. He is also CEO of Campania NewSteel, a start-up incubator born as a partnership between Federico II and Città della Scienza, the largest Science Museum and Innovation Center in Italy. He is also leading two co-innovation hubs located at the University of Napoli Federico II, with CISCO and with TIM.
From 2014 to 2017 he coordinated Programma il Futuro, an initivative between CINI and the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research to bring coding and computational thinking inside Italian schools. During the 2016 International Hour of Code, thank to Programma il Futuro Italy was the first nation in the world for number of events, with more than 1.400.000 students participating. Recently he was appointed by the Minister of Education, University and Research in the National Scientific Committee for Primary and Secondary Schools.
He is author of more than 250 research publications in the area of Computer Networks, Multimedia Systems, Distributed Computing and has served as Conference Chair or member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees for several international conferences in these areas. He also served as Editor for research journals. He has served as and is member of several Scientific Committees and seats in the Board of public and private entities such as Fondazione Ugo Bordoni and the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte.