Giuseppe Desolda
Giuseppe Desolda
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Computer Science
email: giuseppe.desolda@uniba.it
room: 517

Giuseppe Desolda


Research Interests

Interaction with Ubiquitous Systems, Usability and User Experience, End-User Development, Internet of Things, Usable Security


Curriculum

Giuseppe Desolda is Assistant Professor (RTD-B, art. 24 c.3-b L. 240/10) at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bari Aldo Moro from 7/2/2022. He is a member of the Interaction, Visualization, Usability & UX (IVU) Lab, directed by Prof. Maria Francesca Costabile, where he coordinates research on Novel Interaction Techniques, Internet of Things and Usable Security.
Regarding research on ‘Usable Security’, Giuseppe Desolda leads the activities of a group that includes PhD students Andrea Esposito and Francesco Greco, as well as colleagues Prof. Paolo Buono and Prof. Antonio Piccinno. On this topic, he is the principal investigator of the PRIN PNRR DAMOCLES project and Work Package leader of the SCAI WP1 - ‘Securing the Software Process’ within the PNRR SERICS (SECURITY and RIghts In the CyberSpace).

He got a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bari. Among the innovative contributions of his Ph.D., Giuseppe Desolda proposed models, visual interaction paradigms and a mashup platform to allow non-technical users to compose Web services, also by manipulating Linked Open Data.

He is co-author of more than 110 papers published in journals, international conferences and collections. Giuseppe Desolda regularly attends national and international Conferences to present his works. He is (has been) member of the program committee of relevant International Conferences on Human-Computer Interaction (e.g., CHI, INTERACT, CSCW, AVI, NordiCHI, VL/HCC). He is Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal, and he is in the reviewer board of top international journals (e.g., TOCHI, TWEB, JSS, FGCS, BIT, Sensors, IJHCS, JVLC, MTAP, PLOS ONE).

He has been Long Paper Co-Chair of AVI 2024, Panel Co-Chair of ECSCW 2024, Short Paper Co-chair of INTERACT 2021, Demo Co-chair of INTERACT 2019, Proceedings Co-chair of PerDis 2019, Posters & Demo Chair of AVI 2018, Publicity Chair of AVI 2016. He was also Co-chair of: first International Workshop on Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems (EMPATHY), co-located with AVI 2016 conference; first Internation Workshop on Human-centered cybersecurity, co-located with CHItaly 2019 conference; first International Workshop on Smart Ecosystems cReation by Visual dEsign (SERVE), co-located with AVI 2016 conference.

He is the Principal Investigator of the whole project and Principal Investigator of the partner University of Bari for the PRIN 2022 project “DAMOCLES: Detection And Mitigation Of Cyber attacks that exploit human vuLnerabilitiES”, which in July 2023 was funded with 257k euros for the whole project and 89k euros for the partner he coordinates.
He is Vice Principal Investigator of the whole project and Principal Investigator of the partner University of Bari for the PRIN 2022 project “DevProDev: Profiling Software Developers for Developer-Centered Recommender Systems”, which in June 2023 was funded with 226k euros for the whole project and 73k euros for the partner he coordinates.
He is the Work Package leader of the WP1 of the spoke SCAI - “Securing the Software Process” - inside the project PNRR SERICS (SEcurity and RIghts In the CyberSpace). For this spoke, he coordinates the activities of 16 researchers from 4 universities (University of Bari, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Sapienza University of Rome) and one company (Deloitte), for a total of 113 months/person over 3 years. Principal Investigator for the University of Bari of the project ‘Making for Everyone: Interactive,voicebased support for the design of 3D objects for digital fabrication’, funded by the European network Humane AI (European network of Human-centred Artificial Intelligence). The objective was the study of interaction mechanisms with conversational agents for modelling in 3D environments. The research was conducted in 2022 with researchers from the Human-Centred Ubiquitous Media research group at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, headed by Prof. Albrecht Shmidth.
Since 2016 he is/has been involved with responsibility roles in various research projects of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bari (TITANUX, SIMPLE, LIFT eGLU-BOX PRO, Empathy, eGLU-BOX, PA++, CHAT, LOGIN) sponsored by EU or Italian organizations or companies.

He was Invited visiting researcher for 12 months (2/9/2019 - 2/9/2020) at Hertfordshire University, UK, where he was also involved in the research project “FLAGSHIP: a Framework for Learning Agent-based Games to Shape Human-like Intelligence on Privacy”, collaborating with the Design Research Group. At the University of Hertfordshire (UK) he has been other two times as invited visiting researcher, from 26/09/2017 to 26/10/2017 and from 23/01/2018 to 22/02/2018. He collaborated in the design and implementation of new techniques of natural interaction for the programming of intelligent objects by users who are not computer experts.
In July 2017 he was invited visiting researcher (1/7/2017 - 31/7/2017) at the Brunel University London (UK), working with the Prof. Alessio Malizia in a project on natural interaction paradigms to support non-technical users in programming the behaviour of smart objects.
During September-December 2014 he was visiting researcher at the University College of London (UCL), collaborating with Prof. Hans-Christian Jetter, inside ICRI (Intel Collaborative Research Institute) directed by Prof. Yvonne Rogers. During this period, he investigated the composition of data sources available on mobile devices by exploiting spatial-aware mechanisms.
In July 2014, he was teacher of the SURGEOM (SUbject-driven Role-Guided Externalization of Organizational Models) summer school held at Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria), organised within the Erasmus-IP EU programme.

From 2016, he is Member of the Italian Working Group on Usability, called GLU-X (Gruppo di Lavoro per l’Usabilità e la user eXperience), of the Italian Dipartimento della Funzione Pubblica. This group is related to the Italian Ministry for Public Administration and it is doing a great job to improve the usability of Public Administration websites and other e-government systems. He is/has been the coordinator of the development of eGLU-Box PA, a Web platform that assists novice evaluators in performing usability tests of websites in a semi-automatic way according to the eGLU LG protocol. This platform is certified ISO 25000 and released to all Italian Public Administrations since the end of 2019. The eGLU LG protocol has been included in the three-year plan of the Italian Public Administration (Piano triennale per l’informatica nella pubblica amministrazione 2019 - 2021).
He was co-founder and CEO of LARE, a spin-off of the University of Bari aiming at providing real-time remote support to surgeons during surgeries, through audio-video connection and telestration. On 11 December 2013, spin-off LARE was awarded a EUR 50,000 grant by ARTI Puglia - Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation, following a public call for proposals.

He has been selected by the Scientific Committee of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) as one of the 200 most qualified young researchers in the field of mathematics and computer science admitted to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum organized from 22 to 27 September 2019. During the event he has met the winners of the most prestigious awards in their fields such as the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the ACM Prize in Computing (Computer Science), the Abel Prize (Mathematics), the Fields Medal (Mathematics) and the Nevanlinna Prize (Mathematical aspects of computer science).

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Publications

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Papers in International Journals

Chapters in International Collections

Proceedings of International Conferences

International Workshops

Proceedings of National Conferences

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Teaching at the University of Bari Aldo Moro

Doctoral Programme in Computer Science and Mathematics

He is a member of the Academic Board of the PhD programme in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro for cycles XXXVIII, XXXIX, and XL (http://dottorato.di.uniba.it/). He is currently supervisor (tutor) of the following PhD students:

He has co-supervised (co-tutored) two students from previous cycles of the same PhD course, who have already obtained their degrees: Marco Saltarella and Joseph Aneke. He is a member of the evaluation committee (the committee is appointed by the board of teachers and periodically evaluates the activities of PhD students during the three-year course) of:

He taught the following lectures/modules for the PhD programme in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro:

Master degree in Computer Science (Laurea Magistrale in Computer Science)

Master Degree in Cybersecurity (Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Sicurezza Informatica, Taranto)

Degree in Computer Science (Laurea Triennale in Informatica e Comunicazione Digitale, Taranto)

Degree in Geosciences (Laurea Triennale in Scienze Geologiche)

Master

Other Teaching Activities

Degree in Computer Engineer and Physics, Università del Salento, Italy

Master Degree in Computer Science (Laurea Magistrale in Informatica) University of Bari, seminars, lessons, projects supervision and member of exams board:

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science (Laurea Triennale in Informatica) University of Bari, seminars, lessons, projects supervision and member of exams board:

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science (Laurea Triennale in Informatica, Brindisi) University of Bari, seminars, lessons, projects supervision and member of exams board:

Other courses

Invited Talks

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Projects

He is the Principal Investigator of the whole project and Principal Investigator of the partner University of Bari for the PRIN 2022 project “DAMOCLES: Detection And Mitigation Of Cyber attacks that exploit human vuLnerabilitiES”, which in July 2023 was funded with 257k euros for the whole project and 89k euros for the partner he coordinates. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/prin-damocles/home-page

He is Vice Principal Investigator of the whole project and Principal Investigator of the partner University of Bari for the PRIN 2022 project “DevProDev: Profiling Software Developers for Developer-Centered Recommender Systems”, which in June 2023 was funded with 226k euros for the whole project and 73k euros for the partner he coordinates. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/prin2022-devprodev/home-page

He is the Work Package leader of the WP1 of the spoke SCAI - “Securing the Software Process” - inside the project PNRR SERICS (SEcurity and RIghts In the CyberSpace). For this spoke, he coordinates the activities of 16 researchers from 4 universities (University of Bari, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Sapienza University of Rome) and one company (Deloitte), for a total of 113 months/person over 3 years. Website: https://serics.eu/

He was the principal Investigator for the University of Bari of the project ‘Making for Everyone: Interactive, voice-based support for the design of 3D objects for digital fabrication’, funded by the European network Humane AI (European network of Human-centred Artificial Intelligence). The objective was the study of interaction mechanisms with conversational agents for modelling in 3D environments. The research was conducted in 2022 with researchers from the Human-Centred Ubiquitous Media research group at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, headed by Prof. Albrecht Shmidth.

He is currently (has been) involved in the following national and regional projects for which Giuseppe Desolda was responsible for scientific activities are listed below.:

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Software

Some software developed

Desktop application

Multi-touch application

Tablet application

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