FERDINANDO CHIACCHIO Plac e and Date of birth Address E-Mail Phone Web Site Nationality Acireale, 28/03/1981 Viale Principe Amedeo 64, Acireale (CT) chiacchio@dmi.unict.it; chifer81@gmail.com +393287171803. +393887980261 http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/ Italian E D U C A T I O N November 2009 May 2010 Visiting PhD at Duke University, Duke High Availability Assurance Lab (DHAAL), Raleigh (US) Projects: Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Sensor Networks; Importance Measure for Dynamic Fault Tree; July 2010 September 2010 International School of Scientific Computation and MATLAB Topic: Matlab and Grid computing. November 2007 - October 2010 PhD in Applied Mathematical Engineering at University of Catania. Research Interest: Stochastic Modeling, Markov Chain, Monte Carlo Simulation, RAMS, PRA, HAZOP, FMEA, Models and Simulation of the immune system. Thesis Title: Dynamic models and importance measures for the reliability evaluation in complex systems October 1999 - July 2005 MSc (5 years), Computer Engineering at University of Catania. Thesis Title: A decentralized control for the locomotion of a six legged robot based on a Integrate & Fire neural network. Thesis Topic: A software implementation of a bio-inspired neural network for automotive control with the C language. Score: 110/110 cum laude September 2003 - March 2004 Erasmus project at Leeds University. ACADEMIC TEACHING E XP E R I E N C E S September 2007-September 2008 Tutor Assistant Mathematics, Statistics and Informatics for the course of Pharmacy, Instructor: Prof. Santo Motta, 2008-2011. October 2011- October 2012 Lecturer of Informatics for the course of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology of University of Messina. January 2012- October 2012 Lecturer of Informatics for the internal course of the SSC (Scuola Superiore di Catania), University of Catania NON ACADEMIC TEACHING E XP E R I E N C E S 2008 2012 Several Private School of Refresher Courses: Lecturer of Informatics, Electronics and Photovoltaic systems
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Aug 2012 Postdoc for the Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineerings Main Researches: Performability of Communication Protocols for industrial and home building; Stochastic modeling and Software developments (C, Java, Python, Ruby, Matlab, Octave) and HPC programming; Mathematical models and simulation for Immunomics Teaching activity and tutoring: Informatics and Mathematics Jan 2008 Part-time collaboration with EUSService Srl Energy Consultant : design, installation and lecturers of photovoltaic plants. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE January 2011 July 2012 Postdoc for the Department of Industrial Engineerings Main Researches: Reliability and Stochastic modeling for the risk assessment of Industrial Plants; Dependability models for Performance evaluation; Software developments; Mathematicals models and simulation for Immunomics (C, Java, Python, Perl, Matlab). November 2007 - October 2010 PhD in Applied Mathematical Engineering at University of Catania. Research Interest: Stochastic Modeling, Markov Chain, Monte Carlo Simulation, RAMS, PRA, HAZOP, FMEA, Models and Simulation of the immune system. Thesis Title: Dynamic models and importance measures for the reliability evaluation in complex systems PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE January 2007 December 2007 Full-time employ at EUSService Energy Consultant: design, installation and lecture of photovoltaic plants. Jan 2007 Jul 2007 Part-time collaboration with Netskin Srl Web Site Analyst and developer. December 2005 December 2006 Full-time employ at IWBank SPA Java Software Analyst: development of the banking service, J2EE Technology L A N G U A G E S HA R D S K I L L S Italian: native. English: excellent French: scholar Advanced Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications: Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint Designer, etc. Computer Skills: OS: Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, Slackware), Android. Mathematical Framework: Matlab, Octave. IDE: Eclipse,.Net, VisualRuby Web and Application Server: Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, ATG Dynamo. Software Language: C, Perl, C++, JAVA, Python, Ruby, Oracle, PHP, HTML, Javascript, Ajax. Performability Software (Reliability, Safety, etc.): Mobius, Relex, PEPA, PRISM, Model Checking, IMC, SHARPE, Galileo, RAATSS, MatCarloRE etc. Other applications: Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Operative
Research, Data Mining, S O F T S K I L LS etc. Team working; Objective oriented; Lateral Thinking; Problem solving; Perform well under pressure. SOFTWARE PROJECTS 2013: 1) jctmcsolver, a analytic solver for Continuous Time Markov Chains (University of Catania), available online. Main Technology: Java, AWT, Swing(GUI), Web: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/?m=5&project=jctmcsolver 2012: 1) OPC UA Performance Simulator (University of Catania), available online. Main Technology: C++, Octave (Matlab like framework), Linux. Web: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/projects/opc_ua_sim/. 2) RAATSS, the Reliability-Availability Adaptive Transition Systems Simulator (University of Catania). Main Technology: Java AWT, Swing, Matlab and Multiprocessor programming, Web: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/projects/?m=5&project=raatss. 3) jatss, GUI Designer for Adaptive Transition Systems and Simulator. Main Technology: Java AWT, Swing (GUI), C code for the simulator engine. (under development) 4) Automatic Examination platform (University of Messina) Main Technology: php, mysql, javascript. 2011: 1) MatCarloRE, a Montecarlo Simulator for the evaluation of Reliability and Importance Measures of Dynamic Fault Tree (University of Catania). Main Technology: Java AWT, Swing, Matlab and Multiprocessor programming. Web: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/projects/?m=5&project=matcarlore. 2) Immunogrid Simulator: Optimal Vaccination Scheduling (University of Catania). Main Technology: C and HPC programming (GRID). 3) wfcms, webfantacalcio Management and Statistics. Main Technology: php, mysql, javascript, ajax, google api. Web site: online 2009-2010: Several commercial website: EuSService, Il Sogno diventa Realtà, WebScuba (in collaboration with NetSkin Srl). Main Technology: CMS (Wordpress, Joomla), php, mysql, ajax, javascript. 2008: 1) Immunogrid Simulator, Triplex Vaccine (University of Catania). Main Technology: C and GRID programming. 2006: 1) Corporate Administration (IWBank SPA). Main Technology: J2EE, Struts. 2) IWSmile 1.0: the paypal-like banking service of IWBank (IWBank SPA). Main Technology: J2EE, ATG Dynamo.
PUBBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL Analysis of OPC UA Performances - S. Cavalieri and F. Chiacchio, Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2012 (under review) Cancer vaccines: state of the art of computational modeling - F. Pappalardo, F. Chiacchio and S. Motta, Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, BioMed Research International Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 106407, 6 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/106407 Optimal vaccination schedule search using genetic algorithm over MPI technology - C. Calonaci, F. Chiacchio and F. Pappalardo, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012, 12:129 doi:10.1186/1472-6947-12-129 Limiting the Loss of Information in KNXnet/IP on Congestion Conditions - S. Cavalieri, F. Chiacchio, Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2012 (under review) The dynamic-to-static conversion of Dynamic Fault Trees using Stochastic Dependency Graphs and Stochastic Activity Networks - F. Chiacchio, G. Manno, Engineering (www.scirp.org/journal/eng), 2013 (accepted) Conception of Repairable Dynamic Fault Trees and Resolution by the use of RAATSS, a Matlab Toolbox based on the ATS formalism - G. Manno, F. Chiacchio, D. D'Urso, N. Trapani, L. Compagno, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2012 (under review) A Weibull-based modular approach for the reliability of Dynamic Fault Trees, F. Chiacchio et al., Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Volume 109, January 2013, Pages 45 52, 2012 Mathematical modeling of the immune system recognition to mammary carcinoma antigen - C. Bianca, F. Chiacchio, F. Pappalardo and Marzio Pennisi, BMC Bioinformatics, 2012 MatCarloRe: an integrated FT and Monte Carlo Simulink tool for the reliability assessment of dynamic fault tree - G. Manno, F. Chiacchio, D. D'Urso, N. Trapani, L. Compagno, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 39, Issue 12, (September 2012), pp. 10334 10342, doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2011.12.020 Dynamic fault tree resolution: a conscious trade-off between analytical and simulative approaches F. Chiacchio, D. D Urso, G. Manno, N. Trapani, L. Compagno, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Volume 96, issue 11 (November, 2011), pp. 1515-1526. ISSN:0951-8320, DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.06.014 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS A SAN Model for the Analysis of the Flow Control Congestion Mechanism of KNXnet/IP, S. Cavalieri, F. Chiacchio - in Proceedings IECON 2012, October 2012, Montreal. A Stochastic Activity Networks Model for the Performance Evaluation of the KNXnet/IP Flow Control Mechanism, Salvatore Cavalieri and Ferdinando Chiacchio, in Proceedings of ETFA 2012, Krakov. RAATSS, an extensible Matlab toolbox for the evaluation of repairable dynamic fault trees, G. Manno, F. Chiacchio*, D. D'Urso, N. Trapani, L. Compagno - in Proceedings PSAM 11 & ESREL 2012, ISBN: 978 162 276 4365, June 2012, Helsinky. A model of cytotoxic T antitumor activation stimulated by pulsed dendritic cells, Pennisi, M., Pappalardo, F., Chiacchio, F., Motta, S. - AIP Conference Proceedings 1389, 2011, pp. 1236-1239 An open-source application to model and solve dynamic fault tree of
BOOK CHAPTER real industrial systems F. Chiacchio et al., in proceedings of SKIMA, 2011. The ImmunoGrid Simulator: How to Use It - Pappalardo, F., Halling- Brown, M., Pennisi, M., Chiacchio, F., Sansom, C.E., Shepherd, A.J., Moss, D.S., Motta, S., Brusic, V. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics,6160, 1-19. 2010 Cancer Immunoprevention: What Can We Learn From in silico Models? - Pappalardo, F., Pennisi, M., Cincotti, A., Chiacchio, F., Motta, S., Lollini, P.-L. (2010), Proceedings of 2010 International conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2010), in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), 93, 111-118. 2010 GRIDUISS - A Grid based Universal Immune System Simulator framework, Pappalardo, F., Pennisi, M., Chiacchio, F., Motta, S., Proceeding ICIC'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications: intelligent computing Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg 2010 table of contents ISBN:3-642-14921-9 978-3-642-14921-4 2010 A Fuzzy Approach To The Fta Technique To Match Simplicity And Accuracy: Application To An Air Separation Plant - Compagno,L., Chiacchio,F., Cutruri,S., Trapani,N. Proceedings of The International Workshop on Applied Modelling and Simulation, Buzios (BRA), 2010, pp. 427-434, ISBN: 978-85-285-0135-3. A biological optimization problem on the Grid -Pennisi,M., Pappalardo,F., Mastriani,E., Chiacchio,F., Motta,S. Final Workshop of Grid Projects, PON Ricerca 2000-2006, no. 1575, ISBN:978-88-95892-02-3, pp. 403-410. 2009 Coding Softly a SME-Targeted Information System: towards the lean ERP age - D'Urso,D., Giordano,D., Maiorana,F., Chiacchio,F. MITIP 2009, Proceedings, 123-130, ISBN: 978-88-89555-09-05, 2009 GRID Computing and Computational Immunology Ferdinando Chiacchio and Francesco Pappalardo (2011), Computational Biology and Applied Bioinformatics, Prof. Heitor Lopes (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-629-4, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/computational-biology-and-appliedbioinformatics/grid-computing-and-computational-immunology. - I authorise publication of my personal details.