Francesco Silvestri

Associate Professor in Computer Engineering

AIDA Lab (Algorithms for Intelligent Data Analytics)
Department of Information Engineering
University of Padova

About me

I’m an associate professor in Computer Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova. Previously, I was an assistant professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova (2016-2019), post-doc in the Algorithm group of the IT University of Copenhagen (2015-2016), and post-doc at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova (2009-2014). I’ve also held positions as a part-time lecturer at the IT University of Copenhagen (2013-2014) and as visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (2006-2007). I received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Padova in 2009.

See my cv for more details on my activities and here for more stuff about me.

Research

My research targets algorithms and data structures, with an emphasis on:

  • Big data: how can we efficiently extract information from huge amounts of data?
  • High performance: how can we exploit modern hardware to crunch big data?

In particular, I have been extensively working on:

  • Similarity Search
  • Dimensionality reduction
  • Graph mining
  • Parallel algorithms
  • I/O efficient algorithms
  • Algorithms for modern architectures

For more details give a look at my publications and my cv.

Research collaborators

Program Committees

I have served on the following program committees:

  • ESA Track A 2023, ACM PODS 2023, IPDPS GrAPL (2023), ACM KDD 2023, ISAAC 2022, Euro-Par 2022, SDM 2022, ACM KDD 2022, TheWebConf 2021, SDM 2021, TheWebConf 2020, ESA 2019, Cluster 2019, ICPP 2019, ICALP 2019, TheWebConf 2019, Cluster 2018, BeyondMR 2018, TheWebConf 2018, PODS 2017, SBAC-PAD 2017, BeyondMR 2017, Cluster 2017, IJCAI 2016, SBAC-PAD 2016, IPDPS 2016, ESA 2015, IPDPS 2015, SC Workshops 2015, SC Poster 2014, MASSIVE 2014, BigData 2013, SC Poster 2013, IPDPS 2013.

Teaching

You can find my master/bachelor theses’ proposals here.

I have taught these courses:

Contacts

  • Address: Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/B, I-35131 Padova, Italy
  • Office: 408
  • Phone: +39 049 8277920
  • E-mail: silvestri ♦ dei • unipd • it (♦=at, •=dot)
  • Twitter: SilvestriFr
  • LinkedIn: FraSil