About me

I am a research fellow at San Raffaele Scientific Institute (Milan, Italy).

I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, with a thesis entitled "Achieving quality in crowdsourcing through task design and assignment". Before that, I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, both with a final grade of summa cum laude. In my spare time I enjoy playing the drums, which I have been doing for the last fifteen years or so.

Publications

  • I. Catallo, D. Martinenghi, The dimensions of crowdsourcing task design. Rome, Italy: International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE). 2017.
  • I. Catallo, S. Coniglio, P. Fraternali, D. Martinenghi, A workload-dependent task assignment policy for crowdsourcing. World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ). 2017.
  • C. Bernaschina, I. Catallo, E. Ciceri, R. Fedorov, P. Fraternali, Towards an unbiased approach for the evaluation of social data geolocation. Paris, France: Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR). 2015.
  • C. Bernaschina, I. Catallo, P. Fraternali and D. Martinenghi, On the role of task design in crowdsourcing campaigns. San Diego, USA: Human Computation (HCOMP). 2015.
  • E. Ciceri, I. Catallo, D. Martinenghi and P. Fraternali, When food matters: identifying food-related events on Twitter. Cagliari, Italy: Knowledge Discovery Web Workshop (KDWEB). 2015.
  • C.Bernaschina, I. Catallo, P. Fraternali, D. Martinenghi, and M. Tagliasacchi, Champagne: a web tool for the execution of crowdsourcing campaigns. Florence, Italy: Demo Track, World Wide Web conference (WWW). 2015.
  • I. Catallo, E. Ciceri, P. Fraternali, D. Martinenghi, and M. Tagliasacchi, Top-K diversity queries over bounded regions. Transactions On Database Systems (TODS). 2013.
  • I. Catallo, P. Fraternali, et al., The CUbRIK project: Human-enhanced time-aware multimedia search. Lyon, France: World Wide Web conference (WWW). 2012.
  • A. Bozzon, I. Catallo , E. Ciceri, P. Fraternali, D. Martinenghi, and M. Tagliasacchi, A framework for crowdsourced multimedia processing and querying. Lyon, France: CrowdSearch workshop, World Wide Web conference (WWW). 2012.

Teaching

From 2011 to 2016, I served as a teaching assistant at Politecnico di Milano in the following topics:

  • Mobile applications: introduction to Android development (slides here)
  • Computer science principles: principles of programming in C++11 (slides here)
  • Advanced Web technologies: how to build Web applications using Spring, JSTL and JPA (slides here)
  • Digitial image processing: introduction to digital image processing and shape extraction

Curriculum

My curriculum vitae et studiorum is available here.

Contacts

  • Work address: Office 18A, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy
  • Phone: +39 02 2643 2993
  • Email: info at iliocatallo dot it
I also have a technical blog where I periodically post my latest findings and thoughts about programming, and technology in general. Check it out.