cv

General Information

Full Name Giacomo Frisoni
Date of Birth 18th November 1995
Languages Italian, English

Education

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 07/2022
    • Best Student Paper Award @ DATA 2022 (20% acceptance rate)
  • 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
  • 07/2020
    • PhD Call First Position out of 132 participants
  • 03/2020
    • Best Paper Award @ DATA 2020 (14% acceptance rate)

Volunteering

  • 2019 — Today
    • AMAE — National Association for Esophageal Achalasia. Member of the board of directors. Representative of the IT sector. Data Scientist.
  • 12/2022 — Today
    • Streamlit. I was selected as a member of the first Streamlit Student Ambassador cohort, Education Program (<50 students worldwide).
  • 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

  • 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