Bio
A computer science engineer, Gianmaria Silvello is associate professor at Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. His research spans information retrieval evaluation, data models and structures, digital libraries and data publishing and citation.
He has published 150+ scientific papers in national and international venues.
He has been appointed member of the International Advisory Panel (IAP) of the Danish Data Science Academy (February 2022 - September 2024).
He is member of the editorial board of Information Processing & Management.
He is associate editor of IEEE Access.
He is member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (Scholarly Communication).
He is member of the editorial advisory board of Digital Library Perspectives.
He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Universal Computer Science.
In evidence:
- Check out our research on Algorithmic Fairness recently mentioned by a major Italian magazine for the general public (Il Venerdì di Repubblica) [Download here]... and the same reseach on an Italian periodical (LEFT, Feb. 2022) [Download here] and on Algorithm Watch.
- General Chair of the 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022)
- General Chair of the 18th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2022)
- Italian National Scientific Qualification for the role of Full Professor in Computer Engineering (SSD ING-INF/05) obtained in July 2018.
- Italian National Scientific Qualification for the role of Full Professor in Computer Science (SSD INF/01) obtained in November 2020.
- WP and team leader of the EXtreme-scale Analytics via Multimodal Ontology Discovery & Enhancement (H2020 EU project)
- Participant to the Bringing Artificial Intelligence home for a better care of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple sclerosis H2020 EU project
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Education & Academic Positions
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2020 - OngoingAssociate 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.