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Dr. Michela Bertolotto has been a college
lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Informatics of University
College Dublin since September 2000. Previously she worked at the National
Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and the Department of
Spatial Information Science and Engineering of the University of Maine as a
postdoctoral research associate under the supervision of Prof. Max
Egenhofer (March 1998 - August 2000). Her research activity is related to
the analysis and development of relation-based models for the
representation of spatial configurations and to the progressive
transmission of vector geo-spatial data over the World-Wide Web.
During her studies, Dr. Bertolotto received an
advanced degree in Computer Science from the University of Genova, Italy
(April 1993). From June to October 1993 she received a fellowship from
Elsag Bailey for studying the development of geometric techniques used to
reconstruct three dimensional shapes and surfaces. In the course of her
graduate program, started in November 1993 and supervised by Prof. Leila De
Floriani, she was a visiting research scholar at the National Center for
Geographic Information and Analysis and Department of Spatial Information
Science and Engineering of the University of Maine (January-April 1997).
Her activities during those months included the analysis of both
complex-based and relation-based models for describing and querying spatial
data. She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information
Sciences of the University of Genova (February1998). The subject of her
thesis is the representation of spatial entities at multiple levels of
resolution. She has studied and developed techniques for building and
manipulating multiresolution models for vector maps.
Further research interests include computational
geometry and geometric modeling, with applications to Geographic
Information Systems.
Dr. Bertolotto has participated in several
international research projects in collaboration with Prof. Leila De
Floriani and Prof. Max J. Egenhofer. She is currently the principal
investigator for several projects funded by Enterprise Ireland, the Irish
Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology, and the European
Commission.
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