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 has been involved in international research projects, such as the HEREDITARY Horizon Europe project and the EXAMODE and BRAINTEASER H2020 EU projects, focusing on knowledge extraction and discovery.
He has been visiting researcher at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, where he worked on medical information extraction and multimodal learning.
He has published 50+ scientific papers in national and international venues, including VLDB, SIGIR, ECIR, TOIS, IP&M. He also actively participates in organizing academic events and workshops in his field.
Education & Academic Positions
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2023 - OngoingAssistant Professor (RTD/a) @ UNIPDDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
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2023Senior B Post-Doc ResearcherDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Title of the research project: Efficient Methods to Estimate Knowledge Graph Accuracy -
2021 - 2023Junior B Post-Doc ResearcherDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Title of the 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.
Title of the 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), CH.
MedGIFT research group under the scientific supervision of Prof. Henning Mueller and Dr. Manfredo Atzori -
2017 - 2020Ph.D. StudentDoctorate School in Information Engineering of the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Title of the 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.
Title of the research project: Design and Implementation of a Cross-Site Personalization Service -
2017Visiting Researcher @ HES-SOeHealth division of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre (HES-SO), CH.
MedGIFT research group under the scientific supervision of Prof. Henning Mueller and Dr. Manfredo Atzori -
2014 - 2016Master Degree in Computer Science EngineeringComputer Science Engineering, University of Padua.
Title of the thesis: "An Adaptive Cross-Site User Modelling Platform for Information Exchange Techniques". Supervising Prof: Maristella Agosti, Cosupervising Prof: Vincent Wade and Ass. Prof: Séamus Lawless -
2016Visiting Research Student @ TCDSchool of Informatics of the Trinity College Dublin, IE.
Intelligent systems research group under the scientific supervision of Prof. Vincent Wade and Ass. Prof. Séamus Lawless -
2015Erasmus StudentSchool of Informatics of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, ES.
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2011 - 2014Bachelor Degree in Information EngineeringInformation Engineering, University of Padua.