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Gianmaria Silvello

  • Department of Information Engineering
  • University of Padua
  • gianmaria.silvello @ unipd.it

  • Room: 306, 3rd floor
  • Internal: 7932

Profile

Full Professor of Computer Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua.

Research areas: databases, knowledge management, information retrieval, algorithmic fairness, digital libraries, and data provenance & citation.
Author of 200+ peer-reviewed publications.
Complete publication list (open access / pre-print)

Coordinator & PI – Horizon Europe RIA HEREDITARY
Multi-modal health-data federation & AI (2024 – 27)

Director, Executive Programme  “Generative AI for Business”

Deputy-Chair, Steering Committee, TPDL 2023-27

Member, EOSC Technical & Semantic Interoperability Task-Force (EC 2024 – )

Organisation Co-Chair – ACM SIGIR 2025 (Padua 🇮🇹)

Co-Founder & Co-General Chair: DESIRES conference series (2018, 2021, 2022).

Some Honors

Best Paper Award – ECIR 2018 “Statistical Stemmers”.

IP&M PhD Paper Award – Gender-bias study, 2020.

Best Student Paper – TPDL 2023 (Web-ranking FAIR citations).

Honourable Mention – HCOMP 2024 Knowledge-Graph accuracy.

Recent Highlight Publications

CACM 2025
Can We Measure the Impact of a Database?

P. Buneman · D. Dosso · M. Lissandrini · G. Silvello · H. Sun

Full paper
PVLDB 2024
Efficient and Reliable Estimation of Knowledge Graph Accuracy

S. Marchesin · G. Silvello

Full paper
SIGMOD 2025
Credible Intervals for Knowledge Graph Accuracy Estimation

S. Marchesin · G. Silvello

Full paper

Other projects, resources (more here):

Education & Academic Positions

  • 2024 - Ongoing
    Full Professor @ UNIPD
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
  • 2020 - 2024
    Associate Professor @ UNIPD
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
    Italian National Scientific Qualification for the role of Full Professor in Computer Engineering obtained in July 2018.
    Italian National Scientific Qualification for the role of Full Professor in Computer Science (SSD INF/01) obtained in November 2020.
  • 2017 - 2020
    Assistant Professor (RTD/b) @ UNIPD
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
    Tenure-track position of type B
    Italian National Scientific Qualification for the role of Associate Professor in Computer Engineering obtained in April 2017.
  • 2016 - 2017
    Assistant Professor (RTD/a) @ UNIPD
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
  • 2016 - 2017
    Visiting Scholar @ Penn
    Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
  • 2015 - 2016
    Senior Post-Doc Researcher
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
    Title of the research project: Evaluation of Information Retrieval techniques based on keyword search over relational databases
  • 2013 - 2015
    Senior Post-Doc Researcher
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
    Title of the research project: Experimental evaluation of proactive access information systems working on social and streaming data
  • 2011 - 2013
    Junior Post-Doc Researcher
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
    Title of the research project: Harnessing the Scientific Data Produced by the Experimental Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems by means of Advanced, Distributed and Open Infrastructures
  • 2008 - 2011
    Ph D
    School in Information Engineering of the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua.
    Title of the thesis: Title of the thesis: A Set-Based Approach to Deal with Hierarchical Structures (Supervisor Prof. Maristella Agosti)
  • 2009 - 2010
    Visiting Researcher
    School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh, UK.
    Database research group under the scientific supervision of Prof. Peter Buneman
  • 2007
    Post-Graduate Diploma
    Design, Management and Conservation of Public and Private Digital Archives, University of Padua and University of Macerata, Italy
  • 2005 - 2006
    Master Degree in Computer Science Engineering
    Computer Science Engineering, University of Padua.
    Title of the thesis: "Analysis, Management and Harvest of Archive Metadata". Supervising Prof: Maristella Agosti
  • 2001 - 2004
    Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Engineering
    Computer Science Engineering, University of Padua.