I’m an Assistant Professor at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the University of Bologna.
I obtained my master’s degree in computer engineering at Sapienza University of Rome in 2014. I developed my master thesis under the supervision of Professor Giuseppe De Giacomo, in the scope of service integration. During this experience I started my research on formal semantics and particularly on their application in the automatic integration of services whose behaviour is formally described.
Few months later, I joined the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology of the CNR in Rome as research fellow. During this period I continued the research on formal semantics but from a different standpoint, i.e. designing ontologies in cultural heritage and agri-food domains (cf. Cultural-ON and FOOD projects) and integrating knowledge extracted from structured sources following the Linked Data paradigm (i.e. Cultural-ON and FOOD national projects and the EU project MARE).
In 2015 I obtained a doctoral scholarship at University of Bologna and I continued my research on ontologies, common sense knowledge extraction and Semantic Web applied at the social robotics domain under the supervision of Professor Paolo Ciancarini and Dr. Valentina Presutti. During my doctoral studies, I have continued the collaboration with STLab on the EU-H2020 MARIO project which provided me the opportunity of experimenting the contributions of my research work in a socially assistive robotics case study and in ontology design projects within the cultural heritage domain (i.e. ArCo, NEPTIS, Portale delle fonti per la storia della Repubblica italiana). I have successfully defended my PhD in 2019.
In 2018 I have been a visiting student at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam under the supervision of Prof. Frank van Harmelen. The result of this collaboration is an article that has been presented at ISWC 2019.
I continued my research on formal and empirical semantics at Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology as post-doctoral research fellow. During the last year I took part into multiple research projects in the cultural heritage (i.e. EcoDigit, ArCo 2, Atlas of paths and IDEHA) aimed at developing ontologies and knowledge graphs to formally describe and enhance the dissemination of the Italian cultural heritage.
Since 2015 I have been serving as teaching tutor for the University of Bologna.
I have also served the scientific community by co-organizing international research events, participating to multiple conference and workshop program committees, reviewing papers for international journal, conferences and workshops. I have co-authored scientific papers for international conferences including IJCAI, AAAI, ISWC, EKAW and ER.
According to Google Scholar, my publications have received 135 citations, and my H-Index is 6. According to Scopus, my publications have received 57 citations, and my H-Index is 3.
I have collaborated to the design and development of multiple ontologies, knowledge graphs and open source software frameworks.
Currently my research work focuses on extracting, engineering and analysing ontology-based knowledge graphs. The main application domains I am investigating are cultural heritage, social robotics and common sense knowledge.
