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.
In prior scientific work I investigated the field of images classification and I also worked in the field of database systems (RIA, web engineering).
I was assisting the following courses:
- 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 was reviewer for the following conferences or journals:
- SIGIR ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval 2011 (PC Committee Poster Session)
- “Information Processing And Management” Elsevier International Journal
- SPIRE Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval 2010
- ICWE International Conference on Web Engineering 2010
- CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2009
I got grants to attend:
- 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 attended the following Ph.D. or Master courses:
- Venture Challenge (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.)
Last update 10.01.2012

