Current Projects
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HEREDITARY aims to significantly transform the way we approach disease detection, prepare treatment response, and explore medical knowledge by building a robust, interoperable, trustworthy and secure framework that integrates multimodal health data (including genetic data) while ensuring compliance with cross-national privacy-preserving policies. The HEREDITARY framework comprises five interconnected layers, from federated data processing and semantic data integration to visual interaction. By utilizing advanced federated analytics and learning workflows, we aim to identify new risk factors and treatment responses focusing, as exploratory use cases, on neurodegenerative and gut microbiome related disorders. HEREDITARY is harmonizing and linking various sources of clinical, genomic, and environmental data on a large scale. This enables clinicians, researchers, and policymakers to understand these diseases better and develop more effective treatment strategies. HEREDITARY adheres to the citizen science paradigm to ensure that patients and the public have a primary role in guiding scientific and medical research while maintaining full control of their data. Our goal is to change the way we approach healthcare by unlocking insights that were previously impossible to obtain.
Role: Leader of Task 5.6 "Shared evaluation campaigns". -
CAMEO aims at enhancing conversational agents through an innovative use of user contextual information. In CAMEO, the user context becomes the internal knowledge of the system, including a representation of relevant information collected during past interactions of the user with the system. Such contextual information, enriched with external knowledge from the application domain considered, will be exploited to extract actionable insights enabling a rich and satisfying user interaction through advanced dialogue management, query answering, personalized search and recommendation.
Role: Coordinator. -
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are chronic diseases characterized by progressive or alternate impairment of neurological functions (motor, sensory, visual, cognitive). Artificial Intelligence is the key to: i) better describe disease mechanisms; ii) stratify patients according to their phenotype assessed all over the disease evolution; iii) predict disease progression in a probabilistic, time dependent fashion; iv) investigate the role of the environment; v) suggest interventions that can delay the progression of the disease. BRAINTEASER will integrate large clinical datasets with novel personal and environmental data collected using low-cost sensors and apps. Software and mobile apps will be designed embracing an agile and user-centred design approach, accounting for the technical, medical, psychological and societal needs of the specific users.
Role: Leader of WP9 "Open Science and FAIR Data".
Past International Projects
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It aims at addressing the challenge of implementing good quality standardised file formats for preserving data content in the long term. The main objective is to give memory institutions full control of the process of the conformity tests of files to be ingested into archives and to develop modular and flexible software tools to this end.
Role: Leader of the unit of the Department; leader of WP7 "Validation and testing" and WP8 "Competitive Evaluation and Monitoring of the RTD work"; scientific coordinator of the project. -
It aims at launching and establishing a cooperative network of researchers, practitioners, and application domain specialists who work in fields related to semantic data management, the Semantic Web, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing, in order to coordinate collaboration among them and to enable research activity and technology transfer in the area of keyword-based search over structured data sources.
Role: Member of the Management Committe and representative for Italy. -
It aims at achieving an evaluation methodology directed at user-oriented interactive evaluation, a new and tested set of interactive evaluation metrics, infrastructure and test suites based on these and an ongoing collaborative forum with evaluation cycles with a focus on evaluating information access systems, as well as producing a European network of new researchers trained in the improved methodologies.
Role: Member of the Steering Committe and representative for Italy. -
It aims at delivering innovative adaptive services and an interactive user environment which dynamically tailors the investigation, comprehension and enrichment of digital humanities artefacts and collections. Through the provision of such functionality, CULTURA can empower all users to investigate, comprehend and contribute to digital cultural collections.
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department; responsible of the re-design and re-engineering of the FAST annotation back-end used by the CULTURA adaptive environment. -
It aims at providing a virtual laboratory for conducting participative research and experimentation to carry out, advance and bring automation into the evaluation and benchmarking of complex multilingual and multimedia information systems, by facilitating management and offering access, curation, preservation, re-use, analysis, visualization, and mining of the collected experimental data.
Role: Coordinator of the project. -
It develops services and components for the Europeana digital library with a special focus on multilinguality and interoperability.
Role: Leader of the unit of the Department; leader of task 2.1 about user requirements and use cases for multilinguality; leader of task 2.5 about evaluation of the multilingual information access components. -
It aims at delivering the European Digital Library as an operational service and the community behind it.
Role: Leader of the unit of the Department; member of the working group on the Europeana Data Model with a focus on multilinguality and annotations. -
It fosters and promotes the experimental evaluation of multilingual information access systems.
Role: Leader of the unit of the Department; leader of WP2 about the organization of the CLEF evaluation campaigns and the design and development of the evaluation infrastructure; leader of task 2.4 about the systematic experiments which study the impact of languages over system components and are carried out in Grid@CLEF. -
It aims at improving The European Library, which is the access point to 48 national libraries across Europe, and delivers components and additional functionalities to it.
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department; responsible of the design and development of the FAST annotation back-end used by the TELplus system. -
It delivers advanced multimedia (audio, text, images) search capabilities over P2P networks.
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department; responsible of the design of the SPINA framework for P2P text retrieval. -
It is the European network of excellence on digital libraries. It developed the DELOS reference model for digital libraries, which provided the foundations for defining what a digital library is, and delivered the DelosDLMS, the next generation digital library management systems complying with the reference model.
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department; participant to the reference model for the part concerning quality in digital libraries; responsible for the design and developement of the FAST annotation service, adopted within the DelosDLMS prototype.
Past National Projects
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It aims to develop the prototype of a hardware / software platform for the innovative management of various activities of an amusement park, with particular regard to the maintenance of the attractions and to the collection and analysis of data specifically acquired from them.
The project is coordinated by Antonio Zamperla s.p.a.
Role: Leader of the unit of the Department of Information Engineering. -
We aim at improving Learning to Rank (LtR) algorithms by letting them to take into account user interaction to improve their overall effectiveness. In particular, we will develop a model of user behavior where the interaction between the user and the ranked result list is modeled via Markov chains. Then, we will integrate the proposed model into a LtR algorithm in order to take into account the user interactions when the algorithm learns the scoring function. Finally, we will evaluate the performances of the proposed algorithm with respect to state of the art machine learning algorithms.
The project is jointly conducted with the High Performance Computing (HPC) laboratory of the ISTI CNR in Pisa, Italy.
Role: Coordinator of the project and supervisor of the PhD researcher. -
We aim at studying and formalizing the properties of the evaluation measures adopted in IR evaluation from an axiomatic point of view by relying on the representational theory of measurement, adopted in physics and social sciences.
The project is coordinated by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Padua, Italy.
Role: Leader of the unit of the Department of Information Engineering. -
Sistema Informativo Archivistico Regionale, Regional Archival Information System (SIAR) Project.
It is a project aimed to develop a distributed Digital Library System (DLS) for describing, managing, accessing and sharing archival resources. SIAR is a joint project with the Italian Veneto Region and the "Sopraintendenza Archivistica per il Veneto" (Archival Regional Board of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage).
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department. -
The project is aimed at developing a cloud computing infrastructure based on open solutions for supporting research activities and scientific calculus in a multidisciplinary context.
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department. -
It is a project aimed at implementing the surveillance of diseases of pets of the Veneto Region. The project designs and develops a Web-based application for managing and accessing the diagnoses of transmittable and non-transmittable diseases of dogs and cats made by veterinarians in their practices, in hospitals, in kennels and catteries.
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department. -
The project is aimed at the design and development of an infrastructure for videoconferencing and video streaming, also on mobile platforms, as a support to research and teaching activities with a special focus on multidisciplinarity.
Role: Responsible of the unit of the Department. -
It is a project aimed at carrying out a feasibility study for a search engine in the medical domain.
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department; responsible for the coordination of the activities of the study. -
The research program entitle "Harnessing the Scientific Data Produced by the Experimental Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems by means of Advanced, Distributed and Open Infrastructures" funds a post-doc grant for defining an appropriate conceptual model taking into consideration and describing all the entities involved in the evaluation process. From the conceptual model, appropriate data and metadata formats will be derived for representing, managing and exchanging information among the different components of the evaluation infrastructure.
Role: Scientific responsible for the research program and supervisor of the post-doc researcher. -
It is a project of the Veneto Region aimed at designing and developing the portal to the libraries of the Region, offering advanced services such as annotation or geo-spatial location.
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department; responsible for the design and developement of the PV digital library system. -
It is a project of the Direzione Generale Archivi (DGA) of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities for the design and development of a national archival system.
Role: Representative of the Veneto Region in the working group about the metadata for the archival resources managed by the SAN system. -
It is a national CNR project to develop methods and components to deliver enhanced content to the end-users of both digital libraries and the Web.
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department; responsible for the design and developement of the FAST annotation service. -
It is a project of the IBM Italy Foundation concerning the study, comparison, and quality of service evaluation of Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions of different vendors.
Role: Participant of the unit of the Department; responsible for the design of the technical solution and the evaluation of its quality of service.