Carlo Zaniolo

Carlo Zaniolo

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS
COMPUTER SCIENCE

N.E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Science

6514 Boelter Hall

Email: zaniolo@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-8137
Fax: (310) 825-7578

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Carlo Zaniolo was born in Vicenza, Italy. He received an E.E. Engineer degree at Padua University in 1968, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at UCLA in 1970 and 1976, respectively. After working at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and MCC in Austin Texas, Dr. Zaniolo joined the UCLA CS Department in 1991, and was awarded the N.E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Science. Dr. Zaniolo's interests include big data and knowledge based systems, non-monotonic and temporal reasoning, internet information systems, answering questions, queries and searches in knowledge bases.
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
  • Data Stream Management Systems
  • Archival Systems & Temporal DBs
  • Mining Databases and Data Streams
  • Web Information Systems & XML
  • Information System Evolution
  • Deductive Databasses and KB queries
  • NonMonotonic reasoning
  • Semantic Web
EDUCATION
PhD (1976) UCLA
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • ACM Fellow
  • ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics Best Student Paper Award, 2020
COURSES
CS143: Introduction to Databases, CS240A: Databases and Knowledge Bases, CS240B: Advanced Databases & Knowledge Bases, CS239: Temporal Databases, Temporal Logic and Dynamic Models