Matteo Brucato

Ph.D. Candidate

Database and Information Management Lab
College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Computer Science Building, Office 254
140 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003

“my-first-name”@cs.umass.edu

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and I am a member of the Database and Information Management Lab. I am advised by Prof. Alexandra Meliou and Prof. Azza Abouzied (NYU Abu Dhabi). My research interests include data management, information retrieval and natural language processing.

Prior to joining UMass, I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Bologna, Italy.

During summer 2016, I interned at IBM Watson. During spring 2016, I visited NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE. During summer 2015, I visited the AMPLab at the University of California, Berkeley. During my Master's studies, I visited the Data-Intensive Systems group at Aarhus University, Denmark. During my Bachelor's studies, I interned in the Database Lab at the University of California, Riverside.

Package Builder — a system that extends query engines to support package generation.

A Scalable Execution Engine for Package Queries Matteo Brucato, Azza Abouzied, Alexandra Meliou. SIGMOD Record 2017. Paper
Scalable Package Queries in Relational Database Systems Matteo Brucato, Juan Felipe Beltran, Azza Abouzied, Alexandra Meliou. VLDB 2016. Paper — Paper (Extended Version on arXiv) — Poster — Slides ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award — Award website
Improving Package Recommendations through Query Relaxation Matteo Brucato, Azza Abouzied, Alexandra Meliou. Data4U 2014 at VLDB 2014. Paper — Slides
PackageBuilder: From Tuples to Packages Matteo Brucato, Rahul Ramakrishna, Azza Abouzied, Alexandra Meliou. VLDB 2014. Paper — Poster — Challenge Poster
PackageBuilder: Querying for packages of Tuples Kevin Fernandes, Matteo Brucato, Rahul Ramakrishna, Azza Abouzied, Alexandra Meliou. SIGMOD 2014. Undergraduate Research Poster
Metric Spaces for Temporal Information Retrieval Matteo Brucato, Danilo Montesi. ECIR 2014.
Paper — Slides
Recognising and Interpreting Named Temporal Expressions Matteo Brucato, Leon Derczynski, Hector Llorens, Kalina Bontcheva, Christian S. Jensen. RANLP 2013. Paper Nominated for "Best Young Researcher" award

Guest Editorial Board
- Information Processing and Management, special issue on Time and Information Retrieval, 2014/2015
External Review Committee
- VLDB 2017
- SIGMOD 2015
- VLDB 2015
- RANLP 2013

“Scalable Package Queries in Relational Database Systems”
- VLDB 2016, New Delhi, India, September 2016
“Conceptual Queries for Multiple Data Sources”
- IBM Research, Austin, TX, August 2016
“Package Queries: From Tuples to Packages”
- Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA, July 2015
- AMPLab, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, June 2015
“Improving Package Recommendations through Query Relaxation”
- VLDB 2014, Hangzhou, China, September 2014
“Metric Spaces for Temporal Information Retrieval”
- ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 2014
- University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, December 2013
- Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, January 2013

“The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music”
— Donald E. Knuth
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”
— Albert Einstein