Massimiliano Garda

Massimiliano Garda

Department of Information Engineering (DII)

Università degli Studi di Brescia

Via Branze, 38 25123 Brescia - Italy

email: massimiliano.garda@unibs.it

publications: IRIS - DBLP - Google Scholar - Scopus

ORCID: 0009-0006-5823-6595

Short Biography

Massimiliano Garda received his PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Brescia in 2021, with a dissertation on data exploration techniques for (semantic) Data Lakes. His research focuses on Big data streams exploration for Smart Cities and Smart Manufacturing contexts (also with the support of Semantic Web technologies), blockchain integration and interoperability techniques (for instance, in supply chains, to pursue cost-effectiveness goals), LLM-based approaches for service discovery and service-oriented architectures for Industry 4.0 and 5.0.

He contributed to regional (Smart4CPPS, FISVAL, MoSoRe, DS4BS) and national (PNRR MICS) projects.

He is currently a researcher (Italian RTD-A) in the Databases, Information Systems, and Web (DBWIS) group at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, and his position is funded by the PNRR MICS Extended Partnership. Within MICS, he is currently working on the project “Digital Thread for Smart Products in Service-Oriented Supply Chains”.

Research Interests

• Big data streams exploration for Smart Cities and Smart Manufacturing contexts

• Semantics-enabled Data Lakes exploration

• LLM-based solutions for service discovery

• Service-oriented architectures for Industry 4.0 and 5.0

• Blockchain integration and interoperability

National and International Scientific Service (selected)

Editorial Activities

• September 2025 - present: Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, topical area: “AI and Service Computing” (ISSN: 1939-1374)

• March 2026 - present: Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Large Language Models in Service-Oriented Ecosystems Design: Advances and Applications” on IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (ISSN: 1939-1374)

• July 2024 - December 2025: Guest Editor of the Special Issue “AI and Blockchain: Synergies, Challenges, and Innovations”, MDPI Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903)

Conference Roles

• Publicity Chair and Local Committee Member of the 12th Italian Conference on ICT for Smart Cities and Communities (I-CiTies 2026)

• Co-organizer and PC Co-chair of the Research Projects Exhibition (RPE) Special Session Track, co-located with the 50th IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications, IEEE COMPSAC 2026

• Co-organizer and PC Co-chair of the 2nd Workshop on Large Language Model for Service-Oriented Architectures and Systems Design (LLM-SOA), co-located with the 38th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2026

• Co-organizer and PC Co-chair of the 1st Workshop on Large Language Model for Service-Oriented Architectures and Systems Design (LLM-SOA), co-located with the 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2025

Program Committees (selected)

• PC Member: IEEE COMPSAC (2026) - ACM CIKM (2026, 2025) - CoopIS (2026, 2025) -WEBIST (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023) - SEBD (2026) - ITADATA (2026, 2025) - EDI40 (2026, 2023) - IEEE CAI (2025)

• Senior PC Member: IEEE ICWS (2026)

External reviewer for international conferences (CIKM, CAiSE, IEEE ICWS, IEEE ICIOT, WISE)  and journals (including World Wide Web Journal, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Industrial Information Integration, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Information Processing & Management).

Teaching

University of Brescia

• Elementi di Informatica LP (Professional BSc, since A.Y. 2022–2023) - 6 ECTS (60 hours) - First Semester

• Perspectives and Practical Implications of Big Data Management in Modern Data Architectures (PhD Programs in Technologies for Health and Information Engineering, since A.Y. 2024–2025) - 14 hours

Supervision: 9 MSc theses