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General Information
Full Name | Giacomo Frisoni |
Date of Birth | 18th November 1995 |
Languages | Italian, English |
Education
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10/2020 — 10/2023
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy
- Ministerial scholarship
- Supervisor: Gianluca Moro
- Tutor: Antonella Carbonaro
- Area of study: Knowledge Extraction and Injection for Natural Language Understanding
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09/2017 — 03/2020
M.S., Computer Science and Engineering
University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy
- Graduation score: 110/110 cum laude
- Graduation class: Computer Engineering
- Thesis topic: A new unsupervised methodology of descriptive text mining for knowledge graph learning
- Supervisor: Gianluca Moro
- Co-Supervisor: Antonella Carbonaro
- Area of study: Text Mining
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09/2014 — 10/2017
B.S., Computer Science and Engineering
University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy
- Graduation score: 110/110 cum laude
- Graduation class: Computer Engineering
- Thesis topic: Design and development of a software system for studying and researching rare diseases
- Supervisor: Dario Maio
- Area of study: Databases
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09/2009 — 07/2014
Scientific High School
ITIS Leonardo Da Vinci, Rimini, Italy
- Final score: 100/100 cum laude
- Member of the National Register of Excellence
- Focus on Cryptography (Bletchley Park Visitor)
Experience
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09/2022 — 12/2022
Postgraduate Visiting Researcher
Terrier Team, Information, Data & Analysis Section, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
- Supervisor: Zaiqiao Meng
- Area of study: Dense Subgraph Retrieval for Open-Domain Biomedical Question Answering
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03/2020 — 10/2020
Pre-doctoral Researcher
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy
- Supervisors: Gianluca Moro, Antonella Carbonaro
- Area of study: Unsupervised Corpus-Level Phenomena Explanation and Knowledge Graph Learning
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08/2020 — 08/2020
Program Attendee at The Cornell, Maryland, Max-Planck Pre-doctoral Research School
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Honors and Awards
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07/2022
- Best Student Paper Award @ DATA 2022 (20% acceptance rate)
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02/2021
- Con.Scienze 2020 Award; national award—with only one nomination per university department—for having written one of the ten best scientific research works during the master's thesis
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07/2020
- PhD Call First Position out of 132 participants
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03/2020
- Best Paper Award @ DATA 2020 (14% acceptance rate)
Volunteering
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2019 — Today
- AMAE — National Association for Esophageal Achalasia. Member of the board of directors. Representative of the IT sector. Data Scientist.
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12/2022 — Today
- Streamlit. I was selected as a member of the first Streamlit Student Ambassador cohort, Education Program (<50 students worldwide).
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06/2022 — 12/2022
- HuggingFace. I was selected as a member of the first HuggingFace Student Ambassador program (<100 students worldwide, from all kinds of backgrounds).
Academic Interests
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Natural Language Processing -
Natural Language Understanding -
Natural Language Generation -
Semantic Parsing -
Knowledge Graphs -
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning -
Graph Neural Networks -
Knowledge Injection -
Deep Representation Learning -
Neuro-Symbolic AI -
Explainable AI -
AI for Health Informatics
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Board Games, Movies, Graphic Design