Short Bio

Francesco Bonchi is a senior research scientist at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona, Spain, where he is part of the Web Mining Group. His recent research interests include mining query-logs, social networks, and social media, as well as the privacy issues related to mining these kinds of sensible data. In the past he has been interested in data mining query languages, constrained pattern mining, mining spatiotemporal and mobility data, and privacy preserving data mining.

He is member of the ECML PKDD Steering Committee, Yahoo! Research ambassador for academic relations with Italy, and the organizer of the Yahoo! Research Barcelona Seminars series. He has been program co-chair of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2010). Dr. Bonchi has also served as program co-chair of the first and second ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD 2007 and 2008), the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM 2006), and the 4th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases (KDID 2005).

He is co-editor of the book "Privacy-Aware Knowledge Discovery: Novel Applications and New Techniques" published by Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.

He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pisa in December 2003.