Stefano Cavuoti

Work Experience

Jan 2007 – Continuing: VONeural/DaME Team
Software Developer,

• Software Engineering;
• Science Case: Automatic selection of candidate AGN;
• Software Development (C++, Python, Java, MatLab);
• Web Design.

Sep 2008 – Nov 2008: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA, USA
Software Developer:

• Development of a Web Application for the DAME project (CGI, Django, Rails, Python, Ruby).
  DAME (DAta Mining & Exploration) is a project aimed at designing and developing instruments and tools for scientific data mining, based on information and communication technology.
  DAME is an evolution of the Astroneural and VO-Neural projects and is funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as by the European project VOTECH (Virtual Observatory Technological Infrastructures) and by the Italian PON-S.Co.P.E.

Apr 2008 – Sep 2008: Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy. PON SCoPE Grant (http://www.scope.unina.it)

• Porting of software under the PON SCoPE GRID Infrastructure (MatLab, Python, Bash, Fortran, gLite).

2008: Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy.
Supervisor of Degree Thesis of Marianna Annunziatella

2009: Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy.
Supervisor of Degree Thesis of Alessandro Di Guido

2010: Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy.
Supervisor of Master Degree Thesis of Alessandro Montalto

2010: Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy.
Supervisor of Master Degree Thesis of Marianna Annunziatella

Feb 2010: Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy
Tutor at "VO-Day ... in Tour"

May 2011: International Virtual Observatory Alliance Interoperability Workshop

• Member of the LOC

September 2011: Astroinformatics 2011

• Member of the LOC

Education

April 2011: 7th International Workshop Data Analysis in Astronomy <>

• DAME: A Web Oriented Infrastructure For Scientific Data Mining And Exploration

May 2010: Poznan, Poland
INGRID 2010, Instrumentrig the GRID

• Exploitation of remote instrumentation on the Grid

Mar 2010 - Continuing: Univerità degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Research Doctorate (PhD) in fundamental and applied physics

Feb 2010: Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoly, Italy
Vo-Day ... in Tour

• Scientific application of Virtual Observatory (VO) techniques and tools

Jun 2008: Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy
AstroWise School

• Use of AstroWise tools for data reduction

Jun 2008: Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers IV

• Exploratory data analysis;
• Hypothesis testing and parameter estimation;
• Regression & confidence interval estimation;
• Model selection & goodness-of-fit;
• Maximum likelihood methods & Bayes' Theorem;
• Non-parametric methods;
• Monte Carlo methods;
• Poisson processes;
• Time series.

Sep 2000 - Jan 2008: Univerità degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Master Degree in Physics

• - Thesis topic: “search for Active Galactic Nuclei(AGN) in multiband photometric survey”. The study aimed to identifying AGN using photometric (instead of spectroscopic) data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In order to achieve this classificator Neural Networks were used; and, in particular, Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Support Vector Machines (SVM), MLP were used in a Matlab implementation, SVM in the LIBSVM implementation with Linux (Ubuntu and Scientific Linux) and Windows (XP) OS. SVM were used also on the PON SCoPE GRID in a multi instances mode.

Sep 1995 - Jul 2000: High School L. Da Vinci, Salerno, Italy
Diploma in Scientific studies.

Computer and Language Skills

Good programming skills in C/C++, Python, Java, SQL, Ruby, Matlab, LabView, Bash, Fortran77, Basic64, GWBasic, QBasic and Turbo Pascal;
Good knowledge of web technology: Django, CGI, Rails, XML and html;
Good knowledge of GRID environment: gLite 3.0 and gLite 3.1;
Excellent knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems;
Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office suite tools (Word, Excel and Power Point), OpenOffice suite and LaTex;
Excellent knowledge of Virtual Observatory tools proficient in reduction of astronomical data(e.g. Topcat, Astrogrid, etc.);
Basic knowledge of graphic design applications (PhotoShop).

• Italian: Native language
• English: Fluent
• French: Beginner.

Social and Organizational Skills

Good ability to adapt to multicultural environments, gained through my work experience abroad.
Team spirit gained with my experience with team sports such soccer and volleyball and with my experience in the framework.