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Laura Menotti

  • Department of Information Engineering
  • University of Padua
  • laura.menotti @ phd.unipd.it

  • Room: Database Laboratory
    (Laboratorio basi di dati), 3th floor, DEI/G
  • Internal tel: 7929

Bio

A computer engineer, Laura Menotti is a PhD Student at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. She took the Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Engineering and the Master Degree in Computer Engineering. Her research spans Biomedical Relation Extraction (BioRE), Knowledge Base Construction (KBC), and Dataset Search.

Latest appointments:

  • Participant to HEREDITARY - HetERogeneous sEmantic Data integratIon for guT-bRain interplaY (H2020 EU project).
  • Winner of the "Tina Anselmi" Scholarship established by UST CISL Venezia and funded by Human SPA, received on November 11, 2023.
  • Winner of the 2023 Best Master Thesis Award on Big Data & Data Science received during the 2nd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA 2023), Naples, Italy, September 11-13, 2023.
  • Qualified to be admitted to the Italian Engineering Association (Esame di Stato) obtained in January 2023.
  • Participant to BRAINTEASER - Bringing Artificial Intelligence home for a better care of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple sclerosis (H2020 EU project).

Main projects and resources (more here):

Education & Academic Positions

  • 2023 - present
    Ph.D. Student
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
    Supervisor: Prof. Gianmaria Silvello, Co-supervisor: Prof. Stefano Marchesin
  • 2022 - 2023
    Junior Researcher
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
    Research Topic: Relation extraction techniques, RDF technology, Ontologies, Ontology creation software (Protege), Entity extraction and linking, Web development, basics of gene-cancer associations.
    Scientific Advisor: Prof. Gianmaria Silvello
  • 2020 - 2022
    Master Degree in Computer Engineering
    Computer Engineering (Web Information and Data Engineering), University of Padua.
    Title of the thesis: "Reproducibility and Generalization of a Relation Extraction System for Gene-Disease Associations". Supervisor: Prof. Gianmaria Silvello, Co-supervisor: Dr. Stefano Marchesin ITADATA 2023 Best Master Thesis Award on Big Data & Data Science
  • 2017 - 2020
    Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Engineering
    Ingegneria Informatica (Computer Science Engineering), University of Padua.
    Title of the thesis: "Il ruolo dell'etica nella diffusione di sistemi intelligenti" (Ethics' role in the diffusion of AI systems).
    Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Loreggia