About me
I’m a PhD Student in the Information Retrieval group within the Informatics Faculty at the University of Lugano (Università della Svizzera italiana, USI), Switzerland.
My research is focused on short documents analysis using IR, text mining and machine learning techniques of user generated contents like twitter, chat logs, sms and police report archives. I’m currently working on the SNF ChatMiner project.
I am also co-organizing the “Sexual Predator Identification” sub-task within the “Author Identification” task in the PAN (Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse) Workshop 2012.
I was visiting AT&T Labs Research in Middletown, NJ, U.S.A. in March-April 2011.
I was reviewer for the following conferences or journals:
- SIGIR ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval 2011, 2012
- WSDM (Web Search and Data Mining) 2012
- CIKM (Conference on Information and Knowledge Management) 2009, 2011
- “Information Processing And Management” Elsevier International Journal
- SPIRE Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval 2010
- ICWE International Conference on Web Engineering 2010
I got grants to attend:
- STSM (Short Term Scientific Mission) at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain visiting prof. Paolo Rosso thanks to the COST Action IC0702 (February 19-25, 2012)
- ECIR 2010, the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (Mar 27 – 31, 2010)
- ESSIR 2009, the 7th European School in Information Retrieval (Aug 31 – Sep 4, 2009)
- Spring School 2009 of COST Action IC0702, Reasoning and Decision Making under Uncertainty and Imprecision (May 18-20, 2009)
I was assisting the following courses:
- Study Week in Informatics 2011 for High School students – Android Programming (September 2011)
- Information and Knowledge Management I: DB (Data Bases) (Spring semester 2011)
- Software Atelier I: Software Tools (Winter semester 2010/2011)
- Informazioni, dati e basi di dati as part of the Diploma of Advanced Studies in informatica per docenti delle scuole medie superiori (Spring semester 2010)
- Introduction to C Programming (Winter semester 2009/2010)
- Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation (Spring semester 2009, Spring semester 2010)
I attended the following Ph.D. or Master courses:
- Venture Challenge – Develop Business Ideas (2011)
- Research Policy and Grant Proposal Writing (2010, Ph.D.)
- HCI Seminar: Beyond the Desktop (2009, Ph.D.)
- Ubiquitous Computing (2009, Master)
- Introduction to Ph.D. (2009, Ph.D.)
Status: 07 May 2012
