Gianmaria Silvello
Full Professor, University of Padua
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Full Professor of Computer Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua.
Research areas: databases, knowledge management and representation, information retrieval, algorithmic fairness,
digital libraries, data provenance & citation.
Author of 200+ peer-reviewed publications.
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Coordinator & PI – Horizon Europe RIA
HEREDITARY
Multi-modal health-data federation & AI (2024–27)
Director, Executive Programs: "GenAI Bootcamp: The Basics" & "Generative AI for Business"
Chair, Steering Committee, TPDL 2025–
Member, EOSC Technical & Semantic Interoperability Task-Force (EC 2024–)
Organisation Co-Chair – ACM SIGIR 2025
Review Board – PVLDB 2026
Member of the PC – SIGMOD 2025–2027
Honors & Awards
Best Paper Honorable Mention – IRCDL 2026 (Querying LLMs as if they were Digital Libraries).
Best Paper Runner-Up – TPDL 2025 (Link Prediction on Scholarly Graphs).
Best Paper Award – IRCDL 2025 (Extending Nanopublications with Knowledge Provenance).
Honourable Mention – HCOMP 2024 (Knowledge-Graph Accuracy).
Best Student Paper – TPDL 2023 (Web-ranking FAIR Citations).
IP&M PhD Paper Award – Gender-bias study, 2020.
Best Paper Award – ECIR 2018 "Statistical Stemmers".
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Education & Academic Positions
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2024 - OngoingFull Professor @ UNIPDDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
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2020 - 2024Associate Professor @ UNIPDDepartment 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 - 2020Assistant Professor (RTD/b) @ UNIPDDepartment 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 - 2017Assistant Professor (RTD/a) @ UNIPDDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
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2016 - 2017Visiting Scholar @ PennDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
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2015 - 2016Senior Post-Doc ResearcherDepartment 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 - 2015Senior Post-Doc ResearcherDepartment 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 - 2013Junior Post-Doc ResearcherDepartment 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 - 2011Ph DSchool 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 - 2010Visiting ResearcherSchool of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Database research group under the scientific supervision of Prof. Peter Buneman -
2007Post-Graduate DiplomaDesign, Management and Conservation of Public and Private Digital Archives, University of Padua and University of Macerata, Italy
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2005 - 2006Master Degree in Computer Science EngineeringComputer Science Engineering, University of Padua.
Title of the thesis: "Analysis, Management and Harvest of Archive Metadata". Supervising Prof: Maristella Agosti -
2001 - 2004Bachelor Degree in Computer Science EngineeringComputer Science Engineering, University of Padua.