Diego Calvanese is an Italian computer scientist and professor at the faculty of computer science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. In addition, since 2019, he is Wallenberg Visiting Professor at the department of computing science, UmeÃÂ¥ University. He is well known for his scientific contributions in knowledge representation and reasoning in AI, description logics, and database theory.
Calvanese graduated in electronic engineering (110/110 cum laude) at Sapienza University, Rome, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science.
Diego Calvanese is the initiator and co-founder of Ontopic, a spin-off of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.