Marco Viviani - Information and Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning LAB

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas

e-mail: marco [dot] viviani [at] unimib [dot] it
Work: (+39) 02-6448-7839
Address: Office 2006 @ DISCo
URL: https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/
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Short Bio

Marco Viviani is an Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo).

He graduated in Computer Science (2004) and obtained a Ph.D. in Informatics (2008) from the Università degli Studi di Milano (La Statale), where he was involved in the research activities of the SESAR Lab.

In 2009 he obtained a one-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Université de Bourgogne – Le2i Lab (Dijon, France). In 2010 he obtained a two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées – LIRIS Lab (Lyon, France). From 2011 to 2013 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria – STRICT SociaLab (Varese, Italy). From 2015 to 2018 he was a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca – IKR3 Lab, and from 2019 to 2021 an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the same university and within the same research laboratory.

He is an Associate Editor of Social Network Analysis and Mining and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence – Natural Language Processing, an Area Editor (Web Intelligence and E-Services) of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, and a Guest Editor of several Special Issues in International Journals related to the problem of “information disorder” online, among which the Special Issue on Health Misinformation on Social Media, in the “International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health”, and the “Special Issue on Information Analysis and Retrieval in Social Media“, in the “Informatics” International Journal.

His main research activities include Social Computing, Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Trust and Reputation Management, Data Privacy, and User Modeling.

On these topics, he has published more than 80 research works in International Journals, at International Conferences, as Monographs, and as Book Chapters. Click here for the complete list of publications.

Online Scientific Profiles

Education

2004: Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano
2008: Ph.D. in Informatics, Università degli Studi di Milano. Ph.D. Thesis: “Aggregation-based Trust Management in Multi-agent Systems”
2019: 24 ECTS credits in anthropo-psycho-pedagogical subjects and teaching methodology and technology, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Qualifications

Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale alle funzioni di professore universitario di seconda fascia (National Italian Qualification for the Role of Associate Professor), obtained from the Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (Italy). Valid from January 14, 2020 to January 14, 2029.
Qualification aux fonctions de Maître de Conférences (National French Qualification for the Role of Associate Professor), obtained from the Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (France). Valid from January 27, 2017 to December 31, 2021.
Qualification aux fonctions de Professeur des Universités (2025) (Qualification for the Role of Full Professor), obtained from the Ministère chargé de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (France), 2025.

Organization Activities

Co-chair of ROMCIR 2025: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, Workshop @ ECIR 2025 / The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, April 10, 2025 | Lucca, Italy
Program co-chair of IIR 2024: The 14th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, September 5-6, 2024 | Udine, Italy
Co-chair of Security, Privacy, and Trust, Track @ AICSSA 2024 / The 21th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, October 22-26, 2024 | Sousse, Tunisia
Co-chair of ROMCIR 2024: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, Workshop @ ECIR 2024 / The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, March 24, 2024 | Glasgow, UK
Co-organizer of DLT Workshop 2023 / 5th DLT Working Group Meeting on Multidisciplinary Aspects | December 21-22, 2023 | University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Co-chair of Security, Privacy, and Trust, Track @ AICSSA 2023 / The 20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, December 4-7, 2023 | Smart Village, Giza, Egypt
Co-chair of TrueHealth 2023: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Well-being @ ICWSM 2023 / The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, June 5-8, 2023 | Limassol, Cyprus
Co-chair of ROMCIR 2023: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, Workshop @ ECIR 2023 / The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, April 2, 2023 | Dublin, Ireland
Co-chair of ROMCIR 2022: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, Workshop @ ECIR 2022 / The 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval, April 10, 2022 | Stavanger, Norway
Co-organizer of the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2021 – Task 2: Consumer Health Search (CHS) (Online Event)
Co-chair of ROMCIR 2021: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, Workshop @ ECIR 2021 / The 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, March 28 – April 1, 2021 / Lucca, Italy (Online Event)
Co-organizer of the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2020 – Task 2: Consumer Health Search (CHS), September 22-25, 2020 / Thessaloniki, Greece (Online Event)
Co-chair of Artificial Intelligence for Big Social Data Analysis (AI4BigData’20), Special Track @ FLAIRS-33 / The 33nd International FLAIRS Conference, May 17-20, 2019 / North Miami Beach, Florida, USA
General co-chair of MDAI 2019: The 16th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, September 4-6, 2019 / Milan, Italy (Call for Papers)
Co-chair of Artificial Intelligence for Big Social Data Analysis (AI4BigData’19), Special Track @ FLAIRS-32 / The 32nd International FLAIRS Conference, May 19-22, 2019 / Sarasota, Florida, USA
Co-chair of SeCredISData 2018, Special Session on Sentiment, Emotion, and Credibility of Information in Social data @ DSAA 2018 / The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, October 1-4, 2018 / Turin, Italy
Co-chair of Soft Computing: Methods and Applications, Minitrack in the Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science Track @ HICSS-51 / The 51st Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 3-6, 2018 / Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, HI, USA
Co-chair of The role of big data and collaborative networks in health, Special Session @ PRO-VE 2017: The 18th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, September 18-20, 2017 / Vicenza, Italy
Member of the Organizing Committee of the First European Summer School on Fuzzy Logic and Applications / Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, September 7-11, 2015 / Como, Italy
Co-chair of MultiA-Pro 2010, the First International Workshop on User Profiles in Multi-application Environments @ CENTRIC 2010, August 22-27, 2010 / Nice, France

Other Chairing Activities

Student Affairs Chair of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 13-18, 2025 / Padua, Italy
Local Organizer of the Mediterranean Machine Learning (M2L) Summer School, September 9-13, 2024 / Milan, Italy
Workshop Chair of the 22nd IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2023), October 26-29, 2023 / Venice, Italy
Area Chair for the track “Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics” at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), July 9-14, 2023 / Toronto, Canada
Publicity Chair of the 20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2021), December 1-3, 2021 / Milan, Italy
Web Chair of the 19th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2022), July 11-15, 2022 / Milan, Italy
Publicity Chair of the 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2020), November 24-27, 2020 / Milan, Italy
Local Organization Chair of the 12th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2019), July 15-19, 2019 / Milan, Italy
Web and Publicity Chair of the 12th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2018) October 3-5 / Milan, Italy
Tutorial Chair of the 12th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (WILF 2018) September 6-8, 2018 / Genova, Italy

Main Research Projects

Associate Investigator [2024–25]. KURAMi: Knowledge-based, explainable User empowerment in Releasing private data and Assessing Misinformation in online environments. Funding: Italian Ministry of Research PRIN 2022 (Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale)
Member [2024-25]. AMAR: Adaptive Models for context-Aware Representation and understanding of multimedia content. Funding: PNRR 2022 National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza), Cascade Funding
Member (WP4: Consumer Health Information Analysis and Search, WP6: AI and Big Data for a Responsible and Trustworthy Communication Society) [2024–2025]. HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (Simulazioni, calcolo e analisi dei dati ad alte prestazioni, CN1) – Spoke 9: Digital Society and Smart Cities. Funding: PNRR 2022 National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza), Cascade Funding
Member [2023–2025]. LeMuR: Learning with Multiple Representations. Funding: MSCA-DN (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network) 2021
Principal Investigator [2021–2024]. Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision applied to information extraction, classification, linking, and retrieval in legaltech, fintech, proptech, and insurtech. Funding: Lombardy Region. Project ID 3874245 CUP: H45E22000940002
Member [2022–2023]. PerLIR: Personal Linguistic resources in Information Retrieval. Funding: Italian Ministry of Research PRIN 2019 (Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale)
Member. ESR Supervisor (Project 8: Assessing Credibility, Value, and Relevance) [2021–2023]. DoSSIER: Domain-Specific Systems for Information Extraction and Retrieval. Funding: EU Horizon 2020 ITN/ETN

Peer Reviewer for Research Projects

Hrvatska zaklada za znanost (HRZZ) | Croatian Science Foundation
Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds (WWTF) | Vienna Science and Technology Fund

Editorial Activities

Associate Editor of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM). Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature. Electronic ISSN 1869-5469
Associate Editor of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence – Natural Language Processing. Frontiers Media S.A.
Area Editor (Web Intelligence and E-Services). International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS). Electronic ISSN 1875-6883.
Editorial Board Member [2021-2024] of Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM). Elsevier. Electronic ISSN 2468-6964
Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Information Analysis and Retrieval in Social Media“, Informatics. MDPI. ISSN 2227-9709
Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Health Misinformation on Social Media“, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. MDPI. ISSN 1660-4601
Co-editor of the volume: “Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence. 16th International Conference, MDAI 2019, Milan, Italy, September 4–6, 2019, Proceedings“. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 11676. Springer (2019). eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26773-5. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26773-5. Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26772-8
Editorial Advisory Board Member of the volume: “FinTech as a Disruptive Technology for Financial Institutions“. IGI Global (2019). ISBN: 9781522578055. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7805-5
Co-editor of the volume: “The Third International Conference on Advances in Human-Oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies and Services (CENTRIC 2010), Proceedings“. CPS (Conference Publishing Services)/IEEE Computer Society (2010). ISBN: 978-076954141-9. DOI: 10.1109/CENTRIC.2010.4
Editorial Advisory Board Member of the volume: “Semantic Knowledge Management: An Ontology-Based Framework“, Information Science Reference, Hershey, New York (2009). ISBN10: 1605660345. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-034-9

Member of Associations

Program Committees

ACL 2025, ACL Rolling Review Area Chair / The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics / July 27-August 1, 2025, Vienna, Austria
SIGIR 2025, Senior Program Committee Member / The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval / July 13-18, 2025, Padua, Italy
NLDB2025 / The 30th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems / July 4-6, 2024, Kanazawa, Japan
ECML PKDD 2025 / European Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining / September 15-19, 2025, Porto, Portugal
ECIR 2025 / The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval / April 06-10, 2025, Lucca, Italy
COLING 2025 / The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics / January 19-24, 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE
HT’24 / The 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media / September 10-13, 2024, Poznan, Poland
NLDB2024 / The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems / June 25-27, 2024, Turin, Italy
IEEE BigData 2024 / IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2024) / December 15-18, 2024, Washington DC, USA
ADBIS 2024 / The 28th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems / August 28-31, 2024, Bayonne, France
SIGIR 2024 / The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval / July 14-18, 2024, Washington D.C., USA
LREC-Coling 2024 / The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation / May 20-25, 2024, Turin, Italy
ACM WebSci’24 / The 16th ACM Web Science 2024 / May 21-24, 2024, Stuttgart, Germany
ECIR 2024 / The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval / March 24-28, 2024, Glasgow, Scotland
ACM SAC 2024 / The 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, IAR Track (on Information Access and Retrieval) / April 8-12, 2024, Avila, Spain
AAAI 2024 / The Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and Special Track on AI for Social Impact / February 20-27, 2024, Vancouver, Canada
GENERAL23 / GENerative, Explainable, and Reasonable Artificial Learning Workshop @ CHItaly 2023 / September 20-22, 2023, Turin, Italy
ECAI 2023 / 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence / September 30 – October 5, 2023, Kraków, Poland
HT’23 / The 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media / September 4-7, 2023, Roma, Italy
ECML PKDD 2023 / European Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining / September 18-22, 2023, Torino, Italy
IEEE BigData 2023 / IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023) / December 15-18, 2023, Sorrento, Italy
KDIR 2023 / The 15th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval / November 13-15, 2023, Rome, Italy
SIGIR 2023 / The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval / July 23-27, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan
MEDES 2023 / The 15th International ACM SIGAPP Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Ecosystems 2023 / May 5-7, 2023, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
ACL 2023 / The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics / July 9-14, 2023, Toronto, Canada
ACM WebSci’23 / The 15th ACM Web Science 2023 / April 30th – May 1st. Co-located with The Web Conference, Austin, Texas, USA
ECIR 2023 / The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval / April 2-6, 2023, Dublin, Ireland
AAAI 2023 / The Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and Special Track on AI for Social Impact / Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 20243
MEDES 2022 / The 14th International ACM SIGAPP Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Ecosystems 2022 / October 19-21, 2022, Venice, Italy
GoodIT 2022 / ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good / September 7-9, 2022, Limassol, Cyprus
CLEF 2022 / Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum / Bologna, Italy, September 5-8, 2022
Mediate 2022 / News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop, collocated with ICWSM 2022 / Online and Atlanta, GA, United States, June 6, 2022
BigData 2022 / IEEE International Conference on Big Data / Osaka, Japan, December 10-17, 2022
FLAIRS-35 / The 35th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society / Jensen Beach, FL, USA, May 15-18, 2022
TPDL 2022 / The 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries / September 20-23, 2022, Padua, Italy
eKNOW 2022 / The Fourteenth International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management / June 26-30, 2022, Porto, Portugal
ACM WebSci’22 / The 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022 / June 26-29, 2022, Barcelona, Spain
LREC 2022 / The 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference / June 20-25, 2022, Marseille, France
ECIR 2022 / The 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval / April 10-14, 2022, Stavanger, Norway
MEDES 2021 / The 13th International ACM SIGAPP Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Ecosystems 2021 / November 1-3, 2021, Hammamet, Tunisia
GoodIT 2021 / ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good / September 9-11, 2021, Rome, Italy
OHARS-2021 / Second Workshop on Online Misinformation- and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems / September 25-October 2, 2021 – Amsterdam, Netherlands (virtual event)
eKNOW 2021 / The Thirteenth International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management / July 18-22, 2021 – Nice, France (virtual event)
ACM WebSci’21 / The 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021 / Organized by the University of Southampton (delivered online)
ECIR 2021 / The 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval / Lucca, Italy (delivered online)
AAAI 2021 / The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (delivered online)
FLAIRS-34 / The 34th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society / North Miami Beach, Florida, USA (delivered online)
MEDES 2020 / The 12th International ACM SIGAPP Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Ecosystems 2020 / Abu Dhabi, UAE
OHARS 2020 / Workshop on Online Misinformation- and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems (Co-located with RecSys 2020) / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ACM WebSci’20 / The 12th International ACM Web Science Conference 2020 / Southampton, UK
IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 / The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence / Yokohama, Japan
DATA ANALYTICS 2020 / The Ninth International Conference on Data Analytics / Nice, France
ICWSM-2020 / The 14th International Conference on Web and Social Media / Atlanta, Georgia, USA
AAAI-20 / The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence / New York, USA
eKNOW 2020 / The 12th International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management / Barcelona, Spain
FLAIRS-33 / The 33rd International FLAIRS Conference / North Miami Beach, Florida, USA
ECIR 2020 / The 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval / Lisbon, Portugal
ACM SAC 2020 / The 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, IAR Track (on Information Access and Retrieval) and KomIS Track (Knowledge Discovery meets Information Systems) / Brno, Czech Republic
ALLDATA 2020, The Sixth International Conference on Big Data, Small Data, Linked Data, and Open Data / Lisbon, Portugal
IEA/AIE 2020 / The 33 International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems / Kitakyushu, Japan
IEEE DSAA 2019 / The 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics / Washington DC, USA
CLiC-it 2019 / The 6th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics / Bari, Italy
SIMPDA 2019 / The 9th International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis / Bled, Slovenia
IEEE SERVICES 2019 / The IEEE World Congress on Services, IEEE SERVICES 2019 Workshop on New Advances in FinTech / Milan, Italy
MEDES 2019 / The 11th International ACM SIGAPP Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Ecosystems 2019 / Limassol, Cyprus
IJCAI 2019 / The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence / Macao, China
ECIR 2019 / The 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval / Cologne, Germany
eKNOW 2019 / The 11th International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management / Athens, Greece
ACM SAC 2019 / The 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, IAR Track (on Information Access and Retrieval) / Limassol, Cyprus
DSAA 2018 / The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), BFPData special track (on Opportunities and Risks for Data Science in Organizations: Banking, Finance, and Policy) / Turin, Italy
Web Intelligence (WI) 2018 / IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence / Santiago, Chile
MEDES 2018 / The 10th International ACM SIGAPP Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Ecosystems 2018, main conference and SCADE special track (on Soft Computing & Applications in Digital Ecosystems) / Tokyo, Japan
SUM 2018 / The 12th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management / Milan, Italy
IJCAI 2018 / The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence / Stockholm, Sweden
ECIR 2018 / The 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval / Grenoble, France
ACM SAC 2018 / The 33rd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing / Pau, France
SITIS 2017 / The 13th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet Systems / Jaipur, India
FUZZ-IEEE 2017 / The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Naples, Italy
IEA/AIE 2017 / The 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, Arras, France
ACM SAC 2017 / The 32nd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing / Marrakech, Morocco
SITIS 2016 / The 12th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet Systems / Naples, Italy
ACM SAC 2016 / The 31st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing / Pisa, Italy
IEEE DSAA’ 2015 / 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics / Paris, France
KDDA 2015 / Knowledge Discovery and Data Analysis / Esi, Algeria
ICTIR 2015 / ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval / Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
KITA 2015 / The 1st International Workshop on the design, development, and use of Knowledge IT Artifacts in professional communities and aggregations / Lisbon, Portugal
IEEE DEST-CEE 2012 / The 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies for Complex Systems, Environment, and Service Engineering / Campione d’Italia, Italy
METHOD 2012 / The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Methods for Establishing Trust with Open Data @ COMPSAC 2012 / Izmir, Turkey
MultiA-Pro 2012 / International Workshop on Interoperability of User Profiles in Multi-Application Web Environments / Lyon, France
MultiA-Pro 2010 / International Workshop on User Profiles in Multi-application Environments / Nice, France

Peer Reviewer for International Journals

ACM Computing Surveys
AI Communications
Applied Soft Computing Journal
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making – Open Access Journal
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Computers & Security
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Expert Systems
Expert Systems with Applications
Frontiers In Human Neuroscience
Future Generation Computer Systems
IEEE Access – Open Access Journal
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Information – Open Access Journal
Information Sciences
Information Processing & Management
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
International Journal of Medical Informatics
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
Journal of Data and Information Quality
Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems
Journal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences
Knowledge and Information Systems
Machine Learning
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering – Open Access Journal
Online Social Networks and Media
PeerJ Computer Science
Security and Privacy
Sensors – Open Access Journal
Telematics and Informatics
The Lancet Digital Health – Open Access Journal

Awards

Best Paper Runner-up Award. Rishabh Upadhyay, Gabriella Pasi, and Marco Viviani. 2023. Leveraging Socio-contextual Information in BERT for Fake Health News Detection in Social Media. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Networks (OASIS ’23) @ Hypertext 2023, Rome, Italy. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 38–46.

Keynote Speeches, Seminars, Lectures, Webinars

Seminar. Optimizing Privacy and Retrieval: Document and Query Sanitization Strategies. March 25, 2025 / University of Udine, Udine (Italy)
Invited Talk. Multidimensional Relevance in Cross-Encoder Re-ranking to Combat Health Misinformation. TOFFEe: TOols for Fighting FakEs. October 15, 2024 / IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca (Italy)
Lecture. Towards a Web of Truth: Meeting the Challenges of Reliable Information Access in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence. IANUA Summer School 2024. July 19-20, 2024 / Albergo dei Poveri, Genoa (Italy).
Invited talk. Natural Language Processing Techniques for Psychological Distress Assessment. Milan Workshop on Computational Methods For Mental Health and Well Being. June 13, 2024 / University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy)
Seminar. NLP and Sentiment Analysis. November 22, 2023 / University of Milan (LaStatale), Milan (Italy).
Lecture. Decoding the Online Truth: Addressing Veracity Challenges in Information Access. IANUA Summer School 2023. July 13-15, 2024 / Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione (DiSFor), University of Genoa, Genoa (Italy).
Seminar. Unravelling Consumer Health Search: Characteristics and Challenges in the Online Landscape. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Laboratoire d’InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d’information. May 23rd, 2023, Lyon (France).
Invited talk. Consumer Health Search in the Social Web. Personalised Services for the Elders. Discussing design options in an interdisciplinary and intercultural way. Villa Vigoni, German-Italian Center for the European Dialogue. Loveno di Menaggio (Como), Italy. November 28th, 2022 – December 2nd, 2022
Webinar. Basics of IR and Evaluations. DoSSIER (EU Horizon 2020 ITN/ETN on Domain-Specific Systems for Information Extraction and Retrieval) Induction Workshop (Online). January 21, 2021
Keynote speech. Accessing Credible Information in the Social Web. September 25, 2020 / CLEF eHealth 2020 – Task 2: Consumer Health Search. Virtual Conference
Lecture. The Issue of Information Credibility in the Social Web. September 18, 2019 / International Summer School on Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Lake Como School of Advanced Studies. Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy)
Seminar. Assessing the credibility of User-Generated Content in social media. June 6, 2017 / Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Laboratoire d’InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d’information, Lyon (France).
Seminar. Aggregation Operators for Trust Management in Multi-agent Systems. November 10, 2011 / Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Laboratoire d’InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d’information, Lyon (France).
Seminar. Intégration et Interopérabilité dans le partage confidentiel de données dans le cadre de la Simulation en Imagerie Médicale. 3e journée SIMED-ISLE, Intégration & interopérabilité données/logiciels/calculs, June 10, 2010 / Université de Grenoble, Grenoble (France).

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision

Renzo Arturo Alva Principe (Supervisor). The Problem of Long Document Representation and Processing in the Era of Transformer-Based Large Language Models (2025). XXXVII Ph.D. cycle.
Sondess Missaoui (Co-supervisor). Context-Aware Approaches to Mobile Search (2018). XXX Ph.D. cycle.
Rishabh Upadhyay (Supervisor). Addressing the Challenge of Online Health Misinformation: Detection, Retrieval, and Explainability (2024). XXXVI Ph.D. cycle.

Ph.D. Reviewer and/or Committee Member

Alessandro Balestrucci. Potential Target Audience of Misinformation on Social Media: Credulous Users (2020). Ph.D. Program in Computer Science. GSSI Gran Sasso Science Institute. L’Aquila, Italy
Marcos Fernández-Pichel. Technologies For Extracting and Analysing the Credibility of Health-Related Online Content (2023). Ph.D. Program in Information Technologies. University of Santiago de Compostela. A Coruña, Spain
Roger Ferrod. Enhancing Foundation Models in Specialized Domains: Integrating Knowledge Graphs Embeddings and Multimodal Learning through Contrastive Learning (2025). Ph.D. Program in Computer Science. University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
David La Barbera. Human-AI Collaboration in Fact-Checking (2025). Ph.D. Program in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. University of Udine. Udine, Italy
Aleksandra Nabożny. Credibility Evaluation of Online Health Information using Human in the Loop Machine Learning (2023). Ph.D. Program in Informatics. Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. Warszawa, Poland
Mihai Horia Popescu. Automatic Coding of Clinical Documents: Leveraging Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Approaches for Enhanced Interpretability and Explainability (2025). Ph.D. Program in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. University of Udine. Udine, Italy
Daniele Spoladore. A novel and validated agile Ontology Engineering methodology for the development of ontology-based applications (2022). Ph.D. Program in Computer Science and the Mathematics of Computation. University of Insubria. Varese, Italy

Master’s and Bachelor’s Thesis Supervision

Academic Year 2023-2024

Mariarosa Altieri (Supervisor). An RL- and LLM-Powered Conversational Agent for the Generation of Micro-Learning Resources. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Marta Bernardelli (Supervisor). Analysis of Dynamic Metrics for the Study of Echo Chambers in Social Media. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Alessandro Castagna (Supervisor). Exploring Rewards Systems in Online Social Media through Content Analysis Techniques. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Alessandro Folla (Co-supervisor). Il rischio di privacy nei social media: Analisi del trade-off fra azioni degli utenti e propagazione delle informazioni (The Privacy Risk in Social Media: Analysis of the Trade-Off Between User Actions and Information Propagation). Master's Degree in Cybersecurity (University of Milan, La Statale).
Lorenzo Radaelli (Supervisor). La trasformazione digitale in azienda (Digital Transformation in Business). Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
Tommaso Redaelli (Co-supervisor). Multi-Domain Claim Detection: A Coreset and an External Feature-Based Approach for Automated Fact-Checking. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Giuseppe Sabino (Supervisor). Large Language Models for Mental Health Support. Master's Degree in Data Science.

Academic Year 2022-2023

Michela Carnabuci (Supervisor). Come la SEO influisce sulle performance di un brand online. Analisi e tecniche di un caso studio (How SEO Affects a Brand's Online Performance: Analysis and Techniques of a Case Study). Master's Degree in Theory and Technology of Communication.
Luca Cassani (Supervisor). Studio dell’efficacia di tecniche di riscrittura del testo per il recupero di informazioni a divulgazione controllata nei Data Marketplace (Studying the effectiveness of text rewriting techniques for disclosure-controlled Information Retrieval in Data Marketplaces). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Auora Cerabolini (Co-supervisor). An NLP methodology for automatically rewriting Italian university administrative documents into gender-inclusive wording. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Lara Cugno Parrotta (Co-supervisor). Approcci di reti neurali per l'analisi del rischio di disagio psicologico nei dialoghi tra psichiatra e paziente (Neural Network Approaches for Analyzing the Risk of Psychological Distress in Dialogues Between Psychiatrist and Patient). Master's Degree in Computer Science.
Cosimo Simone Farallo (Supervisor). Integrating Knowledge with Natural Language Processing for Enhanced Fact-Checking. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Silvia Grosso (Supervisor). Exploring Multimodal Federated Learning: State of the Art, Challenges and Effectiveness of Existing Systems. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Paola Impiccicchè (Supervisor). Analisi delle metriche per l’identificazione delle echo chamber nelle reti sociali (Analysis of metrics for identifying echo chambers in social networks). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Lorenzo Longo (Supervisor). Analysis of Transformers-based Models for Long Document Classification. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Matteo Monguzzi (Supervisor). Sviluppo di una applicazione per la registrazione, l'aggiornamento e la sincronizzazione dei dati clienti Shopify su data lake esterno (Development of an application for registering, updating and synchronizing Shopify customer data on external data lake). Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
Laura Nembrini (Supervisor). Un’analisi dell’influenza dei social media nelle variazioni dei prezzi degli NFT (An Analysis of the Influence of Social Media on NFT Price Fluctuations). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Gabriele Antonio Pagani (Supervisor). Tecniche di text mining e di elaborazione del linguaggio naturale applicate all'analisi delle notizie relative alle sentenze giudiziarie penali in materia di sicurezza sul lavoro (Text mining and natural language processing techniques applied to the analysis of news related to criminal court judgments in the field of occupational safety). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Alessio Pasinato (Supervisor). Analysis of the Interaction Dynamics between Users and Superusers in OHCs. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Daniele Carmine Rizzo (Supervisor). Prompt engineering e reperimento delle informazioni: Applicazione di modelli linguistici generativi alla riscrittura ed espansione delle query (Prompt Engineering and Information Retrieval: Application of Generative Language Models to Query Rewriting and Expansion). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Michele Salvaterra (Supervisor). Informazione generata dall'Intelligenza Artificiale e credibilità: un'indagine integrata (AI-generated information and credibility: an integrated investigation). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Sofia Valente (Supervisor). Georeferenced Clustering for the Food Retail Market: Uncovering Spatial Patterns and Insights. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Jan Yang Xiang (Supervisor). La transizione da architettura monolitica a microservizi: un caso studio nel settore del turismo (The transition from monolithic architecture to microservices: a case study in the tourism sector). Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.

Academic Year 2020-2021

Simone Fermini (Supervisor). Compass Group si rinnova: strategie e strumenti per una nuova comunicazione (Compass Group gets a makeover: strategies and tools for new communication). Master's Degree in Theory and Technology of Communication.
Alessandro Fossati (Supervisor). Analisi multi-lingua e multi-piattaforma dei comportamenti dei lettori sui siti di recensioni di libri mediante tecniche di elaborazione del linguaggio naturale (Multi-language and Multi-platform Analysis of Readers' Behaviors on Book Review Sites using Natural Language Processing Techniques). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Laura Gotra (Supervisor). Identificazione automatica di bot nei social media. Evidenza di un caso: applicazione in ambito medico (Automatic identification of bots in social media. Case evidence: Medical application). Master's Degree in Computer Science.
Fabio Pasquale Lombardi (Supervisor). Studio di tecniche di text mining per l'analisi di whitepaper di ICO e STO (Study of text mining techniques for whitepaper analysis of ICOs and STOs). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Davide Mancino (Supervisor). Textual Content Representation and Analysis Applied to the Study of Reward Systems in a Blockchain-based Social Platform. Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Corrado Montoro (Supervisor). L'uso di dati testuali per la valutazione predittiva del rischio di ideazione suicidaria (The use of textual data for predictive risk assessment of suicidal ideation). Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Alessandro Motta (Supervisor). Assessing data disclosure in social media: the Twitter case study. Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Artjoms Olzojevs (Supervisor). Studio del rischio di privacy legato ai comportamenti degli utenti nelle piattaforme sociali (Study of privacy risk related to user behaviors in social platforms). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Antonio Pennacchia (Co-supervisor). ABB Product Recommendation. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Roberto Salerno (Supervisor). Studio di tecniche di Prompt Learning applicate all’Information Retrieval (Study of Prompt Learning techniques applied to Information Retrieval). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Irene Santoro (Co-supervisor). NLP for non-inclusive gender language detection: An NLP methodology for non-inclusive language detection in university administrative documents. Master's Degree in Data Science.
Gabriele Strano (Supervisor). Applicazione di tecniche di elaborazione del linguaggio naturale all’analisi dei contenuti online relativi a Metro Italia SPA (Application of Natural Language Processing techniques to the analysis of online content related to Metro Italia SPA). Master's Degree in Data Science.
Kevin Tranchina (Supervisor). Studio e sviluppo di un sistema conversazionale "intent-" e "domain-dependent" (Study and development of an "intent-" and "domain-dependent" conversational system). Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Simone Tufano (Supervisor). Sviluppo di una soluzione per la generazione di FAQ da contenuti sociali legati alla salute e di un sistema conversazionale di tipo ‘retrieval-based’ (Development of a solution for generating FAQs from health-related social content and a 'retrieval-based' conversational system). Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Emanuela Vaghi (Co-supervisor). Content Analysis for Social Good on Health Virtual Communities. Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Gabriele Zottola (Supervisor). Echo chamber detection: topological and semantic analysis. Master’s Degree in Data Science.

Academic Year 2019-2020

Alessandro Cogliati (Co-supervisor). Analysis of the Credibility of Health-Related Information in Social Media. Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
Lorenzo Filippo Colombo (Co-supervisor). Aggregazione delle preferenze in un sistema per la raccomandazione di informazioni a gruppi di utenti (Aggregation of preferences in a system for recommending information to groups of users). Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Federico Comotto (Supervisor). The Phenomenon of Echo Chambers in Social Media: Quantification and Reduction of Controversy. Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Stefano Di Sotto (Supervisor). Studio e implementazione di tecniche per la valutazione della credibilità dell'informazione medica online (Study and implementation of techniques for assessing the credibility of online medical information). Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
Pranav Kasela (Co-supervisor). User Modellingbased on NLP. Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Daniel Leidi (Co-supervisor). Un motore di ricerca nell’ambito dei media sociali. Studio di aspetti legati alle dimensioni di rilevanza rispetto allo scopo della ricerca (A search engine in the field of social media. Study of aspects related to relevance dimensions to the purpose of search). Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
Matteo Mazzola (Supervisor). Valutazione dell’impatto psicologico del COVID-19 attraverso l’analisi dei tweet (Evaluation of the psychological impact of COVID-19 through the analysis of tweets). Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Andrea Nicolosi (Co-supervisor). Un motore di ricerca basato su ElasticSearch per contenuti sociali relativi al COVID-19 (A search engine for social content related to COVID-19 based on ElasticSearch). Master's Degree in Computer Science.
Bruno Palazzi (Co-supervisor). Definizione di un motore di ricerca personalizzato basato sul modello BERT (Definition of a personalized search engine based on the BERT model). Master's Degree in Computer Science.
Simone Perego (Co-supervisor). Implementazione di un data lake per la Labour Market Intelligence (Implementation of a data lake for Labor Market Intelligence). Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
Francesco Talarico (Supervisor). Study of credibility-based automatic text summarization techniques. Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Giacomo Villa (Supervisor). Analisi della topologia e dei contenuti delle comunità virtuali per lo studio del fenomeno delle camere d’eco (Analysis of the topology and contents of virtual communities for the study of the phenomenon of echo chambers). Master’s Degree in Computer Science.

Academic Year 2018-2019

Alessandro Pontiggia (Co-supervisor). Product Mapper: tecniche di text mining applicate alla gestione del risparmio (Product Mapper: text mining techniques applied to asset management). Master’s Degree in Data Science.

Academic Year 2017-2018

Luca Chiodini (Co-supervisor). Verso l’identificazione automatica di utenti Twitter a rischio binge drinking (Towards the automatic identification of Twitter users at risk of binge drinking). Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
Marco De Grandis (Co-supervisor). Fake News Detection in Microblogging through Multi-Criteria Decision Making. Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
Marco De Zio (Co-supervisor). Un approccio model-driven per la definizione di modelli di ranking in Information Retrieval (A model-driven approach for defining ranking models in Information Retrieval). Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
Daniel Leidi (Co-supervisor). Acquisizione e analisi di dati di utenti in ambito immobiliare (Acquisition and analysis of user data in the real estate sector). Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.

Academic Year 2015-2016

Elias Bassani (Co-supervisor). Un approccio per la valutazione automatica della qualità dell’informazione generata dagli utenti su Wikipedia (An approach for the automatic evaluation of the quality of information generated by users on Wikipedia). Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
Ernesto Cecco D’Ortona (Co-supervisor). BigUp. Uno strumento per la diffusione meritocratica di informazione nelle reti sociali virtuali (BigUp. A tool for the meritocratic dissemination of information in virtual social networks). Master’s Degree in Theory and Technology of Communication.
Alessandro Pietra (Co-supervisor). Sviluppo di un’applicazione Web per l’analisi di news pubblicate su Facebook e Twitter da testate giornalistiche italiane (Development of a Web application for the analysis of news published on Facebook and Twitter by Italian newspapers). Master’s Degree in Computer Science.

Academic Year 2014-2015

Daniele Casiero (Co-supervisor). Tecniche per l’identificazione di falsa informazione e disturbatori (troll) nei Social Media (Techniques for identifying false information and trolls in Social Media). Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
Alessio Serafino (Co-supervisor). Credibilità delle informazioni nel Web sociale: estrazione e analisi di contenuto generato dagli utenti (Credibility of information in the Social Web: extraction and analysis of user-generated content). Master’s Degree in Computer Science.

Academic Year 2011/2012 (University of Insubria, Varese, Italy)

Alberto Annoni (Co-supervisor)
Mauro Bonizzi (Co-supervisor)

Academic Year 2007/2008 (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)

Fabio Ribolla (Co-supervisor)

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