Carlo Torniai is an  Ontologist and a Research Scientist with a wide range of experience across several areas of Computer Science and Information Technology. Carlo is now affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University – Portland, OR. He worked at Media Integration and Communication Center from Jan. 2002 to Aug. 2007 as Researcher and Project manager.

Carlo Torniai

He was responsible for several technology transfer projects and principal investigator for the research related to Semantic Web Technologies and Multimedia. He introduced the novel idea of OWL ontologies enriched with visual concepts, proposed algorithms for multimedia annotation based on enriched ontologies, and developed a set of software tools and visual interfaces for the semantic retrieval of videos. He also lead the development and deployment of Web applications for Public Administration (E-government solutions based on interoperability and ERP deployment project analysis).

His main topics of expertise are Semantic Web Technologies (Ontology development, Data Integration, Enterprise Semantic Web Applications) applied in several fields (biomedical resources, e-learning, multimedia) and Web 2.0 (Social media, Social Networks, folksonomy/ontology interaction).