Sauro Menchetti
Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Sauro Menchetti
Born in Arezzo (AR) on XXXXXXXXX X^th, XXXX
Resident in XXXX XX XXXXXXXX, XX, 52100 Arezzo - Italy
Phone +39 XXXX XXXXXX, Mobile +39 XXX XXXXXXX
Driving Licence: B Category with an own car
Email: sauromenchetti at gmail dot com
WWW: http://digilander.libero.it/sauromenchetti/ (further informations)
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~menchett/ (former university job)

Education

• 2006, March 3: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Automation Engineering - XVII Cycle, University of Florence. Dissertation of a thesis entitled "Learning Preference and Structured Data: Theory and Applications"
• 2002, January 1 - 2005, December 31: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Control Engineering - XVII Cycle at Department of Systems and Computer Science DSI at University of Florence. Supervisors: Prof. Paolo Frasconi, Prof. Giovanni Soda. Research in the field of Machine Learning: Kernel Machines (Support Vector Machines, Voted Perceptron), Preference and Ranking Models, Kernels on Data Structures, Text Categorization, Natural Language Processing, Bioinformatics. Details: Thesis, Publications, Conventions, Conferences, Meetings, Courses, Seminars, Activity Reports
• 2003, October 15 - 2004, April 24: Visitor Researcher for a period of 6 months at Department of Computer Science CS at University College London UCL. Research in the field of Machine Learning with Prof. Massimiliano Pontil. Attendance at several seminars
• 2001, June 12: Pass of State Examination for Qualification to Engineer Profession at University of Florence, Engineering Faculty
• 2001, April 20: M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science Engineering (Computer Science Systems and Applications Course) from University of Florence Engineering Faculty. Advisors: Prof. Paolo Frasconi and Prof. Giovanni Soda. Final mark: 110 out of 110 with honours (see certificate). Subject of the thesis: Extension of Naive Bayes Classifier for Text Categorization using Partially Labelled Data. (thesis in pdf, slides in pdf or ppt). Coursework
• 1994, July 5: Scientific High School Diploma at Liceo Scientifico Statale "Francesco Redi" of Arezzo. Final grade 54 out of 60

Awards and Scholarships

• 2008, July - December: Numerous awards from the International Biographical Centre (IBC), Cambridge, England: inclusion in the Dictionary of International Biography - 35^th Edition, member of Leading Professionals of the World 2008, assignment of the IBC Foremost Professionals of the World 2008, awarded the 21^st Century Award for Achievement, member of Leading Engineers of the World 2009, assignment of the Decrete of Excellence
• 2006, October 26: Inclusion of my biography in the First Edition of Who's Who of Emerging Leaders after a selection of 25,000 men and women under the age of 40
• 2005, February 1 - 2006, January 31: Scholarship entitled "Development of Kernels for Structured Data with Application to Biolocal Sequences" to carry out at Department of Systems and Computer Science DSI, Via S. Marta, 3 - 50139 Florence in the scope of research for BIOPATTERN Excellence Network funded by European Union
• 2000 - 2007: Member of Machine Learning and Neural Networks Group
• 1999, Semtember 14 - 17: Participation to the selction of best student projects about Artificial Intelligence at the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference. The paper is about classification of protein sequences by HMM with professors Giovanni Soda (Università degli Studi di Firenze) and Pierre Baldi (University of California). Selected paper
• 1995 - 2000: Awarded, for all 6 years of M.Sc. Studies, a Scholarship offered as a prize by Regional Company for the Right to University Studing of Florence ARDSU

Professional Experiences

• 2007, 1 March - Now: Indefinitely Contract with SECO Srl Industrial Computers & Systems for multiplatform (Linux and Windows) C++ software development concerning GUI architectures and algorithms for game and entertainment machines (NewSlot, AWP or Slot Comma 6a) regulated by ADM (Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli, former AAMS) by the law 110, comma 6, lettera a) of T.U.L.P.S. Design and implementation of slot machine mathematics and algorithms (payment engine) for PSM Gaming. Linux Kernel customization and BSP implementation for SoC NVIDIA Tegra 2 and 3
• 2006, 4 July - 2007, 28 February: Limited Time Contract with SECO Srl Industrial Computers & Systems for C++ software development concerning game and entertainment machines regulated by ADM (Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli, former AAMS) by the law 110, comma 6, lettera a) of T.U.L.P.S. Refactoring of existing code end designing of simulation programs for code testing
• 2006, March 15 - June 30: Project Contract with SECO Srl Industrial Computers & Systems for C++ software development concerning game and entertainment machines regulated by ADM (Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli, former AAMS) by the law 110, comma 6, lettera a) of T.U.L.P.S. Refactoring of existing code end designing of simulation programs for code testing
• 2005, March 1 - 2006, March 31: Contract of Coordinate and Permanent Collaboration with Department of Systems and Computer Science DSI at University of Florence. Research in the field "Application to Bioinformatics of Machine Learning Methods for Structured Data" for the Project APRIL II funded by European Union
• 2005, January 1 - February 28: Contract of Coordinate and Permanent Collaboration with Department of Systems and Computer Science DSI at University of Florence. Research in the field "Development of Kernels for Structured Data" for the Project APRIL II funded by European Union
• 2002, June 27 and July 2: Teaching of Foundations of Computer Science Course taught by Arezzo Province and ArTel (Arezzo Telecomunicazioni srl) about Microsoft Access, Telecommunication Networks and Internet (slides of lectures 1 and 2 in ppt)
• 2001, August 1 - December 31: Contract of Coordinate and Permanent Collaboration with Department of Systems and Computer Science DSI at University of Florence. Research in the field of Machine Learning with application to Automatic Text Categorization

Computer Science Skills

Languages

• English: written intermediate level, oral novice level
• 2003, October 15 - 2004, April 24: Period of 6 months in London as Visitor Researcher at Department of Computer Science CS at University College London UCL
• 2003, May 26 - June 27: English Course at Centro Linguistico di Ateneo CLA of University of Florence, intermediate skill with attendance at several seminars
• Pass of intermediate level university examination at Centro Linguistico di Ateneo CLA of University of Florence during M.Sc. studies

Interests and Hobbies

• Fishing

Arezzo, January 9, 2016

Sincerely,
Sauro Menchetti

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