Bio
Stefano Marchesin is Assistant Professor (RTD/a) at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. His educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in Information Engineering, a Master's degree in Computer Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Information Engineering.
His research interests lie in information extraction, information retrieval, and data quality. He published 50+ scientific papers in national and international venues, including VLDB, SIGIR, ECIR, CIKM, AAAI HCOMP, TOIS, and IP&M. He also actively participates in organizing academic events and workshops in his field.
He is involved in the HEREDITARY Horizon Europe project. Previously, he was part of the EXAMODE and BRAINTEASER H2020 EU projects. His work across these projects focuses on knowledge extraction and discovery.
He was visiting researcher at the MedGIFT research group of the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), where he worked on medical information extraction and multimodal learning.
He is member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Big Data & Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence).
He is member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (Emerging Technologies and Transformative Paradigms in Research).
Education & Academic Positions
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2023 - OngoingAssistant Professor (RTD/a) @ UNIPDDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Italian National Scientific Qualification for the role of Associate Professor in Computer Science (SSD INF/01) obtained in July 2024. -
2023Senior B Post-Doc ResearcherDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Research project: Efficient Methods to Estimate Knowledge Graph Accuracy. -
2021 - 2023Junior B Post-Doc ResearcherDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Research project: Unsupervised Neural Models for First-Stage Medical Information Retrieval.
Scientific Advisor: Prof. Gianmaria Silvello. -
2021Junior A Post-Doc ResearcherDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Research project: Unsupervised Neural Ranking Models for Medical Information Retrieval.
Scientific Advisor: Prof. Gianmaria Silvello. -
2021Visiting Researcher @ HES-SOeHealth division of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre (HES-SO), Switzerland.
MedGIFT research group under the scientific supervision of Prof. Henning Müller and Dr. Manfredo Atzori -
2017 - 2020Ph.D. StudentDoctorate School in Information Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Ph.D. thesis: Developing Unsupervised Knowledge-Enhanced Models to Reduce the Semantic Gap in Information Retrieval.
Supervisor: Prof. Maristella Agosti. -
2017Junior ResearcherDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Research project: Design and Implementation of a Cross-Site Personalization Service.
Scientific Advisor: Prof. Maristella Agosti. -
2017Visiting Researcher @ HES-SOeHealth division of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre (HES-SO), Switzerland.
MedGIFT research group under the scientific supervision of Prof. Henning Müller and Dr. Manfredo Atzori. -
2014 - 2016Master Degree in Computer EngineeringDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Thesis: An Adaptive Cross-Site User Modelling Platform for Information Exchange Techniques.
Supervisor: Prof. Maristella Agosti.
Co-supervisors: Profs. Vincent Wade and Séamus Lawless. -
2016Visiting Research Student @ TCDSchool of Informatics of the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Intelligent systems research group under the scientific supervision of Profs. Vincent Wade and Séamus Lawless. -
2015Erasmus StudentSchool of Informatics of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain.
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2011 - 2014Bachelor Degree in Information EngineeringDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.