Letizia Tanca is a full professor at Politecnico di Milano, where she chairs the Computer Science Dept. Area. She teaches courses on Databases and Information System Technologies. She is the author of more than 120 papers on deductive and active databases, graph-based languages, semantic-web, and recently on context-aware knowledge management and Big Data analytics.
On these topics she has offered PhD courses and talks, and a keynote talk at ACM SAC 2012. She has been a referee for several top international journals, and a member of the program committee of a large number of international conferences, among which VLDB 2014.