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 90+ scientific papers in national and international venues, including VLDB, SIGMOD, SIGIR, EMNLP, CIKM, EDBT, ECIR, EACL. 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 is guest editor of the special issue on Structuring the Unstructured: Advances in Knowledge Formalization, Annotation, and Linked Data, published in International Journal on Digital Libraries.
He is guest editor of the special issue on Human-Centric and Generative AI for Information Access, published in Information Systems Frontiers.
He is associate editor of International Journal on Digital Libraries.
He is member of the editorial review board of ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality.
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).
He was guest editor of the special issue on LLMs and Data Quality for KGs, published in Information Processing & Management.
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 Engineering (SSD ING-INF/05) obtained in November 2025.
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-SOInstitute of Informatics of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Sierre, Switzerland.
MedGIFT research group under the scientific supervision of Prof. Henning Müller. -
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-SOInstitute of Informatics of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Sierre, Switzerland.
MedGIFT research group under the scientific supervision of Prof. Henning Müller. -
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: Prof. Vincent Wade and Prof. Séamus Lawless. -
2016Internship @ TCDSchool of Informatics of the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology under the scientific supervision of Prof. Vincent Wade and Prof. Séamus Lawless. -
2015Erasmus+ Student @ UPCSchool 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.