Professional Employment

09/2019-present
Assistant Professor in the School of Computing, Dublin City University.
06/2017-08/2019
Marie Skodowska-Curie fellow (H2020 Marie Skodowska-Curie COFUND Action postdoctoral programme) at ADAPT, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin. Topic: "Temporal Aware Personalised Information Retrieval".
08/2016-05/2017
Research fellow at ADAPT, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin. Topic: "Personalised Information Retrieval"
05/2015-07/2016
Research fellow at Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro. Topic: "Entity Linking for Intelligent Information Access".
04/2011-04/2015
Research fellow at Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro. Topic: "Semantic Models for Intelligent Information Access".

Education

01/06/2011
I received the Ph.D. in Computer Science at Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Semeraro. Thesis title: "Semantics and Information Retrieval: Models, Techniques and Applications".
03/2010-07/2010
I visited the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Prof. Mounia Lalmas and Dr. Benjamin Piwowarski. This collaboration led to a definition of an algebra for information needs within the Quantum Information Retrieval framework.
10/10/2007
I received a Laurea Degree with full marks and honors in Computer Science from University of Bari. I discussed a thesis titled: ″SENSE – design and development of a Semantic Search Engine″.

Training Courses and Internships

2011
InnovAction Lab Puglia - Regional final 2011. I partecipated in the regional final of InnovAction Lab Puglia with “Shearch". Our project aimed at developing a full-content search functionality for cloud-based storage services.
2010
From March to July, internship at the Information Retrieval Group, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, under the supervision of the Professor Mounia Lalmas and Dr. Benjamin Piwowarski. The aim of this collaboration was the de nfinition of an algebra for information needs within the Quantum Information Retrieval framework. This algebra is based on quantum operators and exploits some computational linguistic tools in order to build the structured query representation.
2009
Participation in ESSIR, 7th European Summer School in Information Retrieval, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, 31 August - 4 September 2009.
2009
Participation in TrebleCLEF Summer School on Multilingual Information, Santa Croce in Fossabanda, Pisa, Italy, 15-19 June 2009.
2008
Participation in MLSS, 10th Machine Learning Summer School, Ile de Re, France, 1-15 September 2008.