Gabriele Cosmo - Curriculum Vitae

<body background="icons/backg.JPG"> <pre> </pre> <center><font color="#05555"> <h1> Curriculum vitae </h1> <h3> Cosmo Gabriele </h3> </font></center> Place & date of birth: <dd> <i>Venice, Italy, 21 June 1965</i></dd><br> Citizenship: <dd><i>Italian</i><br> CERN address: <dd><i>CERN-PH, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland</i><br> E-mail: <dd><i><a href="mailto:Gabriele.Cosmo@cern.ch">Gabriele.Cosmo@cern.ch</a></i><br> Known Languages: <dd><i>English (very good), French (working knowledge)</i><br> Title: <dd><i>Computer Science master degree - March 1992,<br> <dd>at the "<a target="bk" href="http://www.uniud.it/">Universit&agrave degli Studi di Udine</a>", <a target="bk" href="http://www.uniud.it/www/tourist/udine.html">Udine</a> (Italy)</i><br> <center><font color="#05555"> <h2> Activities </h2> </font></center> <img src="icons/dot-red.GIF" alt="*"> <b>Since August 2004 and currently ...</b> <p> <i>Staff Software Engineer at <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch">CERN</a> (European Organization for Nuclear Research)<br> <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/ph-dep">PH</a> (PHysics) Department<br> <a target="bk" href="http://sftweb.cern.ch/">SFT</a> (SoFTware Development for Experiments) group.</i> <ul> <li>Coordinator for the GEANT4 geometry, global and persistency modules; <li>Contact person for the GEANT4 Collaboration; CMS 'liaison' person for GEANT4 detector simulation; <li>Release coordinator for the GEANT4 Collaboration and oversight of integration testing and development; <li>Leader of the <a target="bk" href="http://lcgapp.cern.ch/project/simu"> LCG Simulation Project</a> and since January 2010 coordinator of the Simulation team within the SFT group; <li>Since January 2009, member of the <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/committees/all/welcomeLHCRRB.html">LHC-RRB</a> (LHC Resources Review Board) Scrutiny Group; <li>C++ and OOP consultant. </ul> <img src="icons/dot-red.GIF" alt="*"> <b>September 1999 - July 2004</b> <p> <i>Staff Software Engineer at <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch">CERN</a> (European Organization for Nuclear Research)<br> <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/it">IT</a> (Information Technology) Division<br> <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/api">API</a> (Applications for Physics and Infrastructure) group,<br> and since March 2003, in the <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/ph-dep">PH</a> (PHysics) Department<br> <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/ph-sft">SFT</a> (SoFTware Development for Experiments) group.</i> <ul> <li>Coordinator for the GEANT4 geometry, global and persistency modules; <li>Contact person for the GEANT4 Collaboration; <li>Release coordinator for the GEANT4 Collaboration; <li>C++ and OOP consultant. </ul> <img src="icons/dot-red.GIF" alt="*"> <b>June 1997 - August 1999</b> <p> <i>Staff Software Engineer at <a target="bk" href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu">SLAC</a> (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)<br> Computing Division, <a target="bk" href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT">BaBar</a> experiment.</i> <ul> <li>Coordinator for the GEANT4-based simulation in BaBar; <li>Responsible for controlling, developing and maintaining the infrastructure of the GEANT4-based BaBar simulation software; <li>Contact person for the GEANT4 Collaboration; <li>Release coordinator for the GEANT4 Collaboration; <li>Software Management coordinator for the GEANT4 Collaboration; <li>C++ and OOP consultant in BaBar. </ul> <img src="icons/dot-red.GIF" alt="*"> <b>January 1995 - May 1997</b> <p> <i>CERN Fellowship at the <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/it">IT</a> (Information Technology) Division<br> <a target="bk" href="http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd">ASD</a> (Application Software & Databases) group.</i> <ul> <li>Overall Analysis, Design and software development in the <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/geant4">GEANT4</a> project: an Object-Oriented toolkit for simulation in High Energy Physics; <li>Contact person for the <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/geant4">GEANT4</a> group; <li>General software tools development in the <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/anaphe">ANAPHE</a> (former LHC++) framework (new software libraries for computing in High Energy Physics); <li>Responsible for Code Management via Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) and porting on different hardware platforms and Operative Systems; <li>Responsible for Documentation and WWW mainteinance; <li>Project coordinator for Object-Persistency on ODBMS (Objectivity/DB); <li>Project coordinator for GUI (Graphical User Interface) development; <li>Software management coordination for the group; <li>Technical HD & SW management and support for the group: OS & Network software maintenance on different UNIX platforms and PC, client integrations into AFS and NFS network-distributed file systems. Hardware installations and upgrades. </ul> <img src="icons/dot-red.GIF" alt="*"> <b>April 1992 - December 1994</b> <p> <i>CERN-<a target="bk" href="http://www.ts.infn.it/">INFN Trieste</a> Scientific Associate at the <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/Delphi/Welcome.html">LEP/DELPHI experiment</a><br> at <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch">CERN</a> (European Organization for Nuclear Research).</i> <ul> <li>Research development in b tagging analysis for the measurement of the branching fractions of the Z0 into <i>b</i> and <i>c</i> quark pairs using neural networks; <li>Support for UNIX migration in the offline analysis and simulation sections in the <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/Delphi/Welcome.html">DELPHI experiment</a>; <li>Support and maintenance of the <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/Delphi/~offline/analysis/delsim.html">DELSIM</a> and <a target="bk" href="http://cern.ch/Delphi/~offline/analysis/delana.html">DELANA</a> software packages; <li>Active collaboration in data production and analysis; <li>Software development in the field of Data Processing on Personal Workstations in the framework of CUCI (CERN Users Computer Infrastructure); <li>Technical HD & SW support for the group: OS & Network software maintenance on different UNIX platforms, VMS and Mac. Hardware installations. X-Terminals installations. </ul> <center><font color="#005555"> <h2> Working experience </h2> </font></center> <img src="icons/dot-green.GIF" alt="*"> <b>Object-Oriented methodologies and Tools</b> <ul> <li>Booch methodology for project analysis and design. <li>UML (Unified Modeling Language) and Unified Methodology. <li>RUP (Rational Unified Process) methodology. <li>Rational-Rose/C++ CASE tool: <ul> <li>category, class, object and interaction diagrams design; code and class specifications generation, ddl schema files generation for DB oriented applications; reverse engineering. </ul> <li>OMT-Rumbaugh methodology for project analysis. <li>OMT/C++ CASE tool: <ul> <li>Object, Dynamic and Functional Model building and development. </ul> <li>ESA/PSS-05 standard for software development and URD definition. <li>ISO/15504-5 (SPICE) exemplar model for Software Process improvement and assessments. <li>SPICE Software Process assessor since 2001. </ul> <img src="icons/dot-green.GIF" alt="*"> <b>Software development tools & applications</b> <ul> <li>Software development on "foundation" libraries: <ul> <li>STL (Standard Template Library), Boost<br> Computing Libraries for High Energy Physics: CLHEP, CERNlib; </ul> <li>Software development products: <ul> <li>Tools.h++ foundation class library, Math.h++ mathematical computation package, Heap.h++ class library for memory management; </ul> <li>ODBMS: <ul> <li>Project analysis and design for applications running on top of Objectivity/DB ODBMS. </ul> <li>Tools for Quality/Assurance, Software metrics, debugging and Testing: <ul> <li>Insure++, Coverity, Code Wizard C++, Purify, Logiscope, McCabe, SUN Workshop, Great Circle, Valgrind. </ul> </ul> <img src="icons/dot-green.GIF" alt="*"> <b>Graphics & User Interfaces</b> <ul> <li>Graphic systems: <ul> <li>X11, Motif, Windows, MacOS, GEM; </ul> <li>Graphic systems development: <ul> <li>GL, OpenGL, Open Inventor, VRML; </ul> <li>GUI development: <ul> <li>XVT Development Solutions for C++, ILOG Views GUI class library, X-Designer GUI builder; </ul> <li>Visualization systems: <ul> <li>Iris Explorer, AVS Express, JAS (Java Analysis Studio). </ul> </ul> <img src="icons/dot-green.GIF" alt="*"> <b>Code Management & Development environments</b> <ul> <li>SVN (SubVersionN), CVS (Concurrent Versioning System), SRT (Software Release Tools); <li>Eclipse, SNiFF++ software development tools; <li>MS Visual Studio/.NET; <li>XCode, MPW programming environment. </ul> <img src="icons/dot-green.GIF" alt="*"> <b>Programming languages</b> <ul> <li>Working knowledge: <ul> <li>C++, C, Pascal, Modula, Fortran, Python, Java, Perl, HTML, VRML, XML, Tcl/Tk, Assembler M680x0; </ul> <li>Didactic knowledge: <ul> <li>Basic, Lisp, SmallTalk. </ul> </ul> <img src="icons/dot-green.GIF" alt="*"> <b>Hardware/Operative Systems</b> <ul> <li>UNIX Platforms: <ul> <li> SunOS (Solaris), HP-UX, SGI-IRIX, DEC-OSF/1, IBM-AIX, Linux, MacOS-X, iOS, NeXTStep, CRAY-XMP; </ul> <li>VMS Platforms: <ul> <li> VAX-VMS, OPEN-VMS; </ul> <li>Others: <ul> <li> MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7, MacOS-9, IBM-VM, Atari-TOS. </ul> </ul> <img src="icons/dot-green.GIF" alt="*"> <b>Word Processing, Desktop Publishing</b> <ul> <li>Terminal based: TeX, LaTeX; <li>Desktop based: MS-Office, FrameMaker, Adobe Illustrator, WordPerfect, ... </ul> <center><font color="#005555"> <h2> Selected published papers </h2> </font></center> <img src="icons/dot-blue.GIF" alt="*"> <b>Thesis work</b> <ul> <li><i>"Automatic Classification of the Hadronic Decays of the Z<sup>0</sup> Boson"</i><br> The thesis considers the problem of classifying the hadronic decays of the Z<sup>0</sup> boson by means of a map based on a Neural Network.<br> Published as <i>Udine-P/92-05/GC</i>. </ul> <img src="icons/dot-blue.GIF" alt="*"> <b>Papers</b> <ul> <li>C.Bortolotto et al., <i>"A Measurement of the Partial Hadronic Widths of the Z<sup>0</sup> using Neural Networks"</i>, in O.Benhar et al. "Neural Networks: From Biology to High Energy Physics", p. 445, ETS Editrice, Pisa (1991). Proceedings of the Workshop on Neural Networks: From Biology to High Energy Physics, Isola d'Elba (Italy), June 1991. <li>G.Cosmo et al., <i>"DELPHI results on the Measurement of the Partial Hadronic Widths of the Z<sup>0</sup> using Neural Networks"</i>, in D.Perret-Gallix (Eds.), "New Computing Techniques in Physics Research II", p. 443, World Scientific, Singapore (1992). Proceedings of the II International Workshop on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for High Energy and Nuclear Physics, La Londe les Maures (France), January 1992. <li>P.Eerola et al., <i>"Classification of the Decays of the Z<sup>0</sup> into b and c Quark Pairs using a Neural Network"</i>, <i>Udine-P/92-07/PE-Rev.</i>. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks: From Biology to High Energy Physics, Isola d'Elba (Italy), June 1992. <li>G.Cosmo et al., <i>"Using Neural Networks for the Classification of the Decays of the Z<sup>0</sup> Boson"</i>, in C.Verkerk and W.Wojcik (Eds.), "Computing in High Energy Physics", p. 665, CERN, Geneva (1992). Proceedings of the Conference on Computing in High Energy Physics, Annecy (France), September 1992. <li>P.Abreu et al., DELPHI Collaboration, <i>"Classification of the Hadronic Decays of the Z<sup>0</sup> into b and b Quark Pairs using a Neural Network"</i>, in Physics Letters <b>B 295</b> (1992) 383-395. <li>G.Cosmo and A.De Angelis, <i>"A Hybrid Neural Network Architecture for the Classification of the Hadronic Decays of the Z0"</i>, in Int.J.Mod.Phys. <b>C</b> (1993) v.4 n.5, 977-981. <li>P.Branchini et al., <i>"b-Tagging Using Shape Variables in the Hadronic Decays of the Z<sup>0</sup>"</i>. Proceedings of the III International Workshop on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Oberemmergau (Germany), October 1993. <li>G.Cosmo et al., <i>"GEANT 4 : an Object-Oriented toolkit for simulation in HEP"</i>, <i>CERN/LHCC/95-70</i>. <li>G.Cosmo, <i>"Graphical User Interface Tools"</i>, <i>CERN 97-01</i>. Proceedings of the HEPVIS 96 Workshop on Visualization in High Energy Physics, CERN Geneva, September 1996. <li>G.Cosmo, <i>"The BaBar Software Architecture and Infrastructure"</i>, in Nuclear Physics <b>B 78</b> (1999), 732-737. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Technology and Particle Physics, Como (Italy), October 1998. <li>J.Allison et al., <i>"Geant4 Status and Results"</i>. Proceedings of the CHEP 2000 Conference, Padova (Italy), February 2000. <li>E.Arderiu Ribera et al., <i>"An evaluation of tools for static checking of C++ code"</i>. Proceedings of the CHEP 2000 Conference, Padova(Italy), February 2000. <li>G.Cosmo, <i>"Software Process in Geant4"</i>. Proceedings of the CHEP 2001 Conference, Bejing (China), September 2001. <li>S.Agostinelli et al., <i>"Geant4 - A Simulation Toolkit"</i>, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research <b>A 506</b> (2003), 250-303. <li>G.Cosmo, <i>"Modeling Detector Geometries in Geant4"</i>. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD Conference, Portland (Oregon, USA), October 2003. <li>G.Cosmo, <i>"The Geant4 Geometry Modeler"</i>. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD Conference, Rome (Italy), October 2004. <li>J.Apostolakis et al., <i>"Recent Developments and Upgrades to the Geant4 Geometry Modeler"</i>. Proceedings of the CHEP 2006 Conference, Mumbai (India), February 2006. <li>J. Allison et al., <i>"Geant4 Developments and Applications"</i>, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science <b>53 No. 1</b> (2006) 270-278. <li>J.Apostolakis et al., <i>"Parallel Geometries in Geant4: Foundation and Recent Enhancements"</i>. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD Conference, Dresden (Germany), October 2008. <li>P.Arce et al., <i>"A Technique for Optimised Navigation in Regular Geometries"</i>. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD Conference, Dresden (Germany), October 2008. <li>J.Apostolakis et al., <i>"Geometry and Physics of the Geant4 Toolkit for High and Medium Energy Applications"</i>. Radiation Physics and Chemistry, <b>78</b> (2009) 859-873. </ul> </body>