His research interest includes event processing technologies for operative business intelligence. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Exeter, U.K. in 1998. Current teaching activities are focused on data warehousing and business intelligence. He has been reviewer and PC member for IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, VLDB 2005, RuleML, and been part of the organization of DEBS 2012, REFSQ 2010, RIDS'97, and ARTDB-95.