Bio
A computer engineer, Laura Menotti is a researcher ("Incarico di Ricerca") 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):
- Ontology-Driven Structural Regularization for Document-Level Relation Extraction (Accepted EMNLP 2026 Main Conference, Oral Presentation)
- DOREMI: DOcument-level Relation Extraction optiMizing the long taIl (Published in Knowledge-Based Systems)
- BRAINTEASER MS and ALS datasets (Published in Scientific Data)
- HEREDITARY H2020 EU project (part of the UNIPD research unit)
Education & Academic Positions
-
2026 - presentResearch AssignmentDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Research Topic: Ontological Modelling and Knowledge Base Construction in the Context of Federated Analytics.
Scientific Advisor: Prof. Gianmaria Silvello -
2023 - 2026Ph.D. StudentDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Thesis Title: Integrating Ontology Design and Information Extraction for Knowledge Discovery.
Supervisor: Prof. Gianmaria Silvello, Co-supervisor: Prof. Stefano Marchesin -
2025Visiting Researcher @ UCDDepartment of Ophthalmology, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora (CO), USA.
Artificial Intelligence Group under the scientific supervision of Prof. Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer
Visiting period: April 2025 - August 2025. -
2022 - 2023Junior ResearcherDepartment 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 - 2022Master Degree in Computer EngineeringComputer 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 - 2020Bachelor Degree in Computer Science EngineeringIngegneria 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