Giacomo Frisoni

Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing @ University of Bologna

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University of Bologna sealUniversity of BolognaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI)Cesena Campus

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. My research interests lie in Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, and Graph Neural Networks, particularly for clinical and biomedical applications.

I have co-authored over 30 papers in prestigious conferences and journals, including ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, and AAAI, receiving best paper and reviewer awards. I serve the research community as area chair at ACL Rolling Review, co-chair of the KEIR workshop series on knowledge-enhanced information retrieval, guest editor, and program committee member for many international venues. I have collaborated with the University of Glasgow, IBM Research Europe, EURECOM, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, and the University of Edinburgh.

I currently work on the DARE project, advancing representational and generative AI for health. I teach as adjunct professor at Bologna Business School and as tutor in the Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, and I have co-supervised 62 Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on NLP and deep learning.

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upcoming

  • EMNLP 2026, Budapest. Presenting Paint It, Black, a benchmark for LLM de-identification of multimodal clinical documents built with Sant'Orsola clinicians (Main Track).
  • KEIR @ CIKM 2026, Sapienza University of Rome. Third edition of the workshop I co-chair: a record 32 submissions, 16 accepted, keynote by Fabio Petroni. Program

service and recognition

Workshop organization

  • KEIR-26 @ CIKM, Rome co-chair
  • KEIR-25 @ ECIR, Lucca co-chair, Springer LNCS 16086
  • KEIR-24 @ ECIR, Glasgow publicity chair

Chairing and editing

  • Area Chair, ACL Rolling Review since 2025
  • Session Chair at AAAI-26, ECAI-25, DATA-22
  • Guest Editor, Sensors special issue on healthcare cognitive computing
  • External thesis committee, UTFSM, Chile

Awards

  • Gold Reviewer, ICML-26 top 25%
  • Outstanding Reviewer, EMNLP-25 51 of 13,048
  • Best Student Paper, DATA-22; Best Paper, DATA-20
  • Con.Scienze national prize for Master's theses, 2020

Community

  • Board member, AMAE patient association for esophageal achalasia
  • Hugging Face Student Ambassador, inaugural cohort 2022
  • Streamlit Student Ambassador, 2022 to 2023

research group

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I am a member of UniboNLP, the NLP research group of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering led by Prof. Gianluca Moro. We design efficient neural models for text and multimodal data that run on limited hardware and compete with commercial systems, with long experience in high-stakes domains such as medicine and law.

Group website Models and datasets Group poster

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news

Sep 25, 2026 Five live UniboNLP demos at the Notte dei Ricercatori in Cesena (Biblioteca Malatestiana): MedGENIE, OpenBioNER-v2, Paint It Black, Mixture of Masters, and the Reachy Mini robot.
May 15, 2026 Received the Gold Reviewer Award at ICML-26 (top 25% of 17,749 reviewers).
Jan 25, 2026 Presented Graph-of-Mark at AAAI-26 in Singapore (in-person, oral) and served as Session Chair for the Natural Language Processing 15 session.
Nov 05, 2025 Presented PORTS at EMNLP-25 in Suzhou, China (in-person, oral), and received the Outstanding Reviewer Award (top ~0.4% of 13,048 reviewers).