Luca de Alfaro
Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
Phone: +1 650-248-2856 Email: luca@dealfaro.org Interests- Reputation systems, crowdsourcing, and on-line collaboration.
- Game theory, system modeling and analysis, formal methods.
- Making things happen, and translating theory into practice.
Significant Experience- WikiTrust, a reputation system for Wikipedia authors and content that can also be used to flag vandalism on the Wikipedia.
- Crowdsensus, a reputation system for user edits to Google Maps. The system compares all information provided by users on map points (businesses, and other locations), and it reconstructs the map information that is most likely to be correct.
- Social scorer for Google+: how to estimate the interest of users in Google+ posts.
- Faculty at the University of California since 2001. For the details, see my academic curriculum vitae.
- I published over 80 academic papers on reputation systems, game theory, the Web, embedded software, system verification, formal methods.
Education- Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1998.
- M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1997.
- Doctorate, System and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 1995.
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 1990.
Employment- 2011-present: Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz.
- 2011: Staff Research Scientist, Google Inc.
- 2010-2011: Software Engineer, Google Inc.
- 2009-2011: Associate Professor (on leave), Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz.
- 2008-2009: Visiting Scientist, Google Inc.
- 2008-2011: On unpaid leave from UC Santa Cruz.
- 2005-2009: Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz.
- 2001-2005: Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz.
- 2000-2001: Assistant Research Engineer, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.
- 1998-2000: Postdoctoral Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.
Languages- Human: English, Italian, French, a bit of Spanish and German.
- Computer: Python, Java, C++, Javascript, Ocaml, Lisp, Scheme, some Php, and a bunch of odd languages.
Skills- Web development, including: Apache, Mysql, Django, Amazon Cloud
- Machine learning
- Data mining
- Reputation systems
- Software design and analysis
Honors- ACM 10-year SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award, 2011.
- NSF Early Faculty Career Award, 2001.
- Best paper award, 12th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR), 2001.
- Samuel Thesis Award, Stanford University, 1998.
- Nominee for ACM Best Dissertation Award, Stanford University, 1998.
- Graduation Cum Laude, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 1990.
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