Nicoletta Fornara
Docente-ricercatore (Maître D Enseignement Et De Recherche MER)
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Summary
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SeniorNicoletta Fornara is a lecturer-researcher (Maître d’enseignement et de recherche) at Università della Svizzera italiana, combining two decades of academic and research experience in multiagent systems, norms, and digital rights. She holds a PhD from USI (2003) on interaction among autonomous agents and has led SNSF-funded research on automatic monitoring of norms for digital assets while co-directing USI’s Generative AI in Education initiative. Active in standards and community-building, she co-chairs the W3C ODRL Community Group and has long been involved in the COIN steering committee and workshops at major agent-system conferences. Her career spans roles at IDSIA, SUPSI, and Politecnico di Milano, reflecting a blend of hands-on AI research, teaching across institutions, and leadership in formal semantics for policy languages. Notably, she bridges foundational research and practical governance by coordinating the formal semantics work that underpins ODRL’s adoption in web data ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developerProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/odrl
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
ODRL Community Group Repository
Contributions:136 commits, 1 PR, 323 pushes in 2 years
odrl
fornaran/ODRL-Semantics
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:48 pushes in 3 months
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