Gregorio Convertino is senior research scientist at Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE), member of the XRCE Work Practice Technology group and close collaborator of the Machine Learning for Optimization and Services group. He recently joined XRCE, after working for three years (2008-2011) doing research in social computing at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC Inc, a Xerox Company). He is also a visiting researcher at PARC and visiting professor at the University of Trento, where he teaches social computing. His research on collaborative and social computing at XRCE and PARC focuses on analyzing requirements, prototyping, and systematically evaluating collective intelligence tools for knowledge workers in the enterprise (web2.0, enterprise2.0, collective intelligence in organizations, crowdsourcing). Recent projects focused on web-based prototypes for large-scale deliberation or crowdsourcing in the enterprise (Idea Management Systems); tools for knowledge-sharing that seamlessly connect email to corporate wikis (Mail2Tag, Mail2Wiki); advanced aggregators of information streams (FeedWinnower); social annotation tools (Spartagus).
Gregorio has over 10 years of HCI research experience in USA, Italy, and France, by working at XRCE, PARC, Penn State University, IBM Research Almaden, Virginia Tech, and ITC-IRST (Trento, Italy). He co-authored more than 45 peer-reviewed papers, co-organized international conferences (e.g., CHI, Group, CTS), and co-led three workshops and a special issue on studies and tools for collective intelligence in organizations. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for a PhD in HCI, completed at Penn State University, and obtained his M.S. and B.S. in Psychology and Computer Science at La Sapienza in Rome. He was awarded research funding from Fulbright, US Office of Naval Research, and Xerox.
Recent publications at PARC: http://bit.ly/qOb4jf
Personal page: http://www.gregorioconvertino.com
