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GianlucaDEMARTINI
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E-mail:[email protected]
UniversityofSheffield http://www.gianlucademartini.net
RegentCourt,211PortobelloRoad,S14DPSheffield,UK AcademicEmployment InformationSchool,UniversityofSheffield,UK.
SeniorLecturer(AssociateProfessor)inDataScience.
Nov2015–now
InformationSchool,UniversityofSheffield,UK.
Lecturer(AssistantProfessor)inDataScience.
Aug2014–Oct2015.
eXascaleInfolab,UniversityofFribourg,Switzerland.
Post-doctoralresearcher.
May2011–July2014.
L3SResearchCenter,UniversityofHannover,Germany.
JuniorResearcher.
Mar2006–Apr2011.
InternshipsandVisits
AMPLab,UCBerkeley,CA,USA. Summer2012.
WithMichaelJ.Franklin,TimKraska,BethTrushkowskyoncrowdsourcedqueryunderstanding.
Yahoo!Research,Barcelona,Spain.
Summer2009.
WithHugoZaragozaandRoiBlancoonTime-awareEntityRankinginnewsarticles.
AcademicEducation
LeibnizUniversityofHannover,Germany.
Ph.D.inComputerScience(Dr.rer.nat.)
Supervisors:WolfgangNejdl,ArjenP.deVries.
Title:“FromPeopletoEntities:TypedSearchintheEnterpriseandtheWeb”.
Apr2006-Apr2011.
SummerSchools:“MultimediaSemantics”(2006),“AdvancedRetrievalandWebMining”(2007)
UniversityofSheffield,UK.
PGCertificateinLearningandTeaching,SchoolofEducation,Mar2016.
FellowoftheHigherEducationAcademy(FHEA),UK.
UniversityofUdine,Italy.
M.Sc.(cumlaude)inComputerScience
Supervisor:StefanoMizzaro.
Dec2003-Dec2005.
SummerSchoolparticipation:“InformationRetrieval”(2005).
UniversityofUdine,Italy.
B.Sc.inComputerScience
Supervisor:AlbertoPolicriti.
Oct2000-Dec2003.
ResearchInterests
CrowdsourcingforHumanComputation,InformationRetrieval,SemanticWeb.
HonorsandAwards
• BestPaperAwardattheECIR2016conference.Top0.5%.
• OutstandingEarlyCareerResearchAchievementAward,U.SheffieldFacultyofSocialSciences,2015.
• Selectedforthe“FutureAcademicLeadersProgramme”attheUniversityofSheffield,2015.
• NominatedforaUniversityofSheffieldFacultyLearningandTeachingAward,2015.
• NominatedforBestResearchPaperawardattheISWC2013conference.Top2%.
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Thirdplaceatthe“SemanticWebChallenge2013”with“B-hist:Entity-CentricSearchoverPersonal
WebBrowsingHistory”.Top18%.
Selectedforthe1stHeidelbergLaureateForum,2013.10%acceptancerate.
“CrowdsourcingforMultimediaIdeasCompetition"awardatCrowdMM2013.
BestDemoAwardattheISWC2011conference.Top1%.
2ndmostOutrageousIdeaAwardattheISWC2011conference.Top8%.
PhDdissertationaward–“DiplomaThesisAward2011”,SemiramisResearch and Service Unit.
3rdBestPaperAwardattheLA-WEB2009conference.
SelectedfortheIBMEMEABestStudentRecognitionEvent2006.
WorldFinalist(representingItaly)atMicrosoftImagineCup2005SoftwareEngcompetition.
FinalistattheItalianMicrosoftImagineCup2004,2005,2006,2007.
ResearchThemes
• Entity-CentricInformationAccess:ImprovingsearchenginesandWebbrowsingusingentities.
• HybridHuman-MachineDataAnalysis:Improvingmachine-baseddataanalysissystems
leveraginghumancomputationatscale.
• NextGenerationCrowdsourcingPlatforms:Moreefficientandeffectivecrowdsourcingplatforms.
• SocialComputing:Usinguser-generatedcontentandactivitiestoimproveWebuserexperience.
SelectedPublications
Crowdsourcing:HybridHuman-MachineSystemsforDataAnalysis
DjellelEddineDifallah,MicheleCatasta,GianlucaDemartini,PanagiotisG.Ipeirotis,andPhilippe
Cudré-Mauroux.TheDynamicsofMicro-TaskCrowdsourcing--TheCaseofAmazonMTurk.In:24th
InternationalConferenceonWorldWideWeb(WWW2015),ResearchTrack.Firenze,Italy,May2015.
(Acceptancerate:14.1%)
UjwalGadiraju,RicardoKawase,StefanDietze,andGianlucaDemartini.UnderstandingMalicious
BehaviourinCrowdsourcingPlatforms:TheCaseofOnlineSurveys.In:ProceedingsoftheACMSpecial
InterestGrouponComputerHumanInteraction(CHI2015).Seoul,SouthKorea,April2015.
(Acceptancerate:23%).
DjellelEddineDifallah,GianlucaDemartini,andPhilippeCudré-Mauroux.Pick-A-Crowd:TellMeWhat
YouLike,andI'llTellYouWhattoDo.In:22ndInternationalConferenceonWorldWideWeb(WWW
2013),RiodeJaneiro,Brazil,May2013.(Acceptancerate:15%).
GianlucaDemartini,DjellelEddineDifallah,andPhilippeCudré-Mauroux.Large-ScaleLinkedData
IntegrationUsingProbabilisticReasoningandCrowdsourcing.In:VLDBJournal,Specialissueon
Structured,SocialandCrowd-sourcedDataontheWeb.August2013.(Journalimpactfactorat
publicationtime:1.395)
GianlucaDemartini,DjellelEddineDifallah,andPhilippeCudré-Mauroux.ZenCrowd:Leveraging
ProbabilisticReasoningandCrowdsourcingTechniquesforLarge-ScaleEntityLinking.In:the21st
InternationalConferenceonWorldWideWeb(WWW2012),Lyon,France,April2012.(Acceptance
rate:12%).
Entity-CentricInformationAccess
AlbertoTonon,MicheleCatasta,RomanProkofyev,GianlucaDemartini,KarlAberer,andPhilippe
Cudré-Mauroux.ContextualizedRankingofEntityTypesbasedonKnowledgeGraphs.In:Journalof
WebSemantics,Elsevier.2016.(Journalimpactfactoratpublicationtime:2.550).
RomanProkofyev,GianlucaDemartini,andPhilippeCudré-Mauroux.EffectiveNamedEntity
RecognitionforIdiosyncraticWebCollections.In:23rdInternationalConferenceonWorldWideWeb
(WWW2014).Seoul,SouthKorea,April2014.(Acceptancerate:12.9%).
AlbertoTonon,MicheleCatasta,GianlucaDemartini,PhilippeCudré-Mauroux,andKarlAberer.
TRank:RankingEntityTypesUsingtheWebofData.In:The12thInternationalSemanticWeb
Conference(ISWC2013),Sydney,Australia,October2013.(Acceptancerate:21.5%).Nominatedfor
theBestResearchPaperAward.(Top2%).
AlbertoTonon,GianlucaDemartini,andPhilippeCudré-Mauroux.CombiningInvertedIndicesand
StructuredSearchforAd-hocObjectRetrieval.In:35thAnnualACMSIGIRConference(SIGIR2012),
Portland,Oregon,USA,August2012.(Acceptancerate:20%).
GianlucaDemartini,ClaudiuS.Firan,TerezaIofciu,RalfKrestel,andWolfgangNejdl.WhyFinding
EntitiesinWikipediaisDifficult,Sometimes.In:InformationRetrieval,13(5):534-567,Springer,
October2010.(Journalimpactfactoratpublicationtime:1.841).
Grants
ExternalResearchGrants
• EUH2020-ICT-14-2016(PI,2.9MEURtotalcost,1.7MEURECContribution,0.42MEURUSheffield
share)call“BigDataPPP:cross-sectorialandcross-lingualdataintegrationandexperimentation”,
project“FashionBrain:UnderstandingEurope’sFashionDataUniverse”,6partners,2017-2019.
• UKEPSRCFirstGrant(PI,120’000GBPtotalcost,100’000GBPEPSRCContribution),project
“BetterCrowd:HumanComputationforBigData”,individualgrant,2016-2017.
• UKAHRCCollaborativeDoctoralPartnership(Co-I,70’000GBP)“Investigatingentity-centric
methodsforinformationexplorationanddiscoveryinbigdigitalarchives”,2015-2018.
• AmazonAWSinEducationGrants(PI,2’500USD),2015.
• FirstplaceforthescholarshippromotedbyINSIELS.p.a.inJuly2005(http://www.insiel.it/).
InternalResearchGrants
• USheffieldiSchoolInternalSeedGrant(PI,700GBP)“OpenTurk:ATaskRecommenderSystemfor
CrowdWorkers”,2016.
• USheffieldiSchoolInternalSeedGrant(Co-I,1971GBP)“CulturesofDataSciencePractice”,2016.
• SheffieldMethodsInstituteFund(PI,720GBP)“CrowdsourcingSocialScienceDataAnalysis”,2015.
• USheffieldiSchoolInternalSeedGrant(PI,2’300GBP)“CrowdsourcingforBigData”,2015.
ExternalTravelGrants
• ESFELIASScientificmeeting(PI,7’500EUR)Dagstuhlmeetingtitled“CrowdsourcingResearch-
TranscendingDisciplinaryBoundaries”,2016.
• ESFELIASSTSMTravelgrantforaresearchvisitatUUdine,Italy,2015.
• MUMIASTSMTravelgrantforaresearchvisitatCWI,Amsterdam,TheNetherlands,2013.
• InternationalShortVisitsgrantfromtheSwissNationalScienceFoundation(SNSF),2012.
• ACMStudentTravelgranttoattendSIGIR2010.
InvitedTalks&Tutorials
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InvitedTalks
“CrowdsourcingforEntity-centricInformationAccess”–KeynoteatAINL-ISMW2015,StPetersburg,
Russia,2015.
“Leveragingn-gramstatisticsforgrammaticalcorrectionandentityrecognition”–Invitedtalkat
Facebook,London,UK,2015.
“CrowdsourcingforEntity-centricInformationAccess”-KeynoteatKDWeb,Cagliari,Italy,2015.
“TherandomForestpackage”-SheffieldRUsersGroup,2015.
“MScDataScienceattheUniversityofSheffield”-OpenDataScienceMeetup,USheffield,2014.
“Entity-CentricInformationAccess”–NLPGroupseminar,USheffield,2014.
“HumanComputation:Machinesarenotenough”–IgniteAcademy,USheffield,2014.
“Crowdsourcingisforthetail”–DagstuhlSeminar14282-CrowdsourcingandtheSemanticWeb,2014.
“HumanComputationforBigData”–CUSOSeminaronBigData,Fribourg,2014.
“Entities,Graphs,andCrowdsourcingforbetterWebSearch”–UvA,Amsterdam,TheNetherlands,2013.
“WorkshoponCrowd-Sourcing”-HeidelbergLaureateForum,Heidelberg,Germany,2013.
“Next-GenerationMicro-taskCrowdsourcingPlatforms”-DagstuhlSeminar13361onCrowdsourcing:
FromTheorytoPracticeandLong-TermPerspectives,2013.
“Entities,Graphs,andCrowdsourcingforbetterWebSearch”–USI,Lugano,Switzerland,2013.
“GettingSemanticsfromtheCrowd”-DagstuhlSeminar12171onSemanticDataManagement,2012.
“CurrentApproachestoSearchResultDiversification”-SearchComputingWorkshop,Milano,Italy,2010.
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Tutorials
“UsingCrowdsourcingEffectivelyforSocialMediaResearch”-TutorialatICWSM2016,Cologne,Germany
withUjwalGadiraju,DjellelE.Difallah,andMicheleCatasta.
“It'sGettingCrowded!HowtoUseCrowdsourcingEffectivelyforWebScienceResearch”-TutorialatWeb
Science2016,Hannover,GermanywithUjwalGadiraju,DjellelE.Difallah,andMicheleCatasta.
“CrowdsourcingforDataProcessingandSearch”-Half-daytutorialatSearchSolutions2015,London,UK.
“Improvingthequalityofcrowdsourcedannotations”tutorialatIEEEAINL-ISMW2015,St.Petersburg,
Russia,2015.
“LeveragingKnowledgeGraphsforWebSearch”-RuSSIR2015course(8hours),StPetersburg,2015.
“Micro-taskCrowdsourcing”-PhDcourse(14hours)atUUdine,2015.
Full-daytutorial“MicrotaskcrowdsourcingtosolveSemanticWebproblems”atISWC2013withElena
SimperlandMaribelAcosta.(https://sites.google.com/site/microtasktutorial/).
Full-daytutorial“CrowdsourcingfortheSemanticWeb”atESWC2013withElenaSimperlandMaribel
Acosta.(https://sites.google.com/site/crowdsourcingtutorial/).
Full-daytutorial“FromExpertFindingtoEntitySearchontheWeb”atECIR2012withPeterMika,
ThanhTran,andArjenP.deVries.(http://diuf.unifr.ch/main/xi/EntitySearchTutorial/).
PublicEngagementActivities
“ThepowerofBigData”,CaféScientifique,Sheffield,2015.
“WhatisBigDataandwhyshouldwecare?”talkforMobileUniversity,Sheffield,2015.
InvitedtalkattheUniversityofSheffieldIgniteAcademytitled“HumanComputation:Machinesarenot
enough”fortheFestivaloftheMind2014(http://festivalofthemind.group.shef.ac.uk/).
Communityactivities
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Organizer
StudentCoordinatorfortheInternationalSemanticWebConference(ISWC),2017.
HumanComputationandCrowdsourcingTrackattheExtendedSemanticWebConference(ESWC2015)
MemberoftheLocalOrganizationteamforCLEF2014,Sheffield.
EntityRankingTrackatthe9thInitiativefortheEvaluationofXMLRetrieval(INEX2009).
EntityRankingTrackatthe8thInitiativefortheEvaluationofXMLRetrieval(INEX2008).
JournalEditorialBoardMember
JournalofWebSemantics,Elsevier,2015-2016.
SpecialIssueoneDemocracy&eGovernment(SIEDEG)oftheInternationalJournaloneDemocracy&
eGovernment(IJEDEG),2016.
SeniorProgramCommitteeMember
AAAIConferenceonHumanComputationandCrowdsourcing(HCOMP),2016.
InternationalConferenceonWebEngineering(ICWE),2016.
ACMInternationalConferenceonInformationandKnowledgeManagement(CIKM),2015-2016.
ProgramCommitteeMember
CrowdsourcingresearchtrackattheWorldWideWebConference(WWW),2017.
PostertrackattheWorldWideWebConference(WWW),2017.
iConference,2017.
InternationalJointConferenceonArtificialIntelligence(IJCAI),2013,2016.
ContentAnalysistrackattheWorldWideWebConference(WWW),2016.
DoctoralConsortiumattheInternationalSemanticWebConference(ISWC),2016.
ResourcesTrackattheInternationalSemanticWebConference(ISWC),2016.
SpecialSessiononCollectiveIntelligence,CrowdSourcing,andCollaboration(CICS)attheInternational
ConferenceonCollaborationTechnologiesandSystems(CTS),2016.
RussianSummerSchoolinInformationRetrieval(RussIR),2016.
ConferenceonArtificialIntelligenceandNaturalLanguage(AINL),2016.
IEEEConferenceonBusinessInformatics(CBI),2016.
ItalianConferenceonComputationalLinguistics(CLIC-IT),2016.
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InternationalWorkshoponBenchmarksforUbiquitousCrowdsourcing:Metrics,Methodologies,and
Datasets(Crowdbench)atIEEEPERCCOM2016.
WorkshoponDataScienceforIntelligentDecisionSupport(DS4IDS)attheInternationalConferenceon
ComputationalScienceandApplications(ICCSA),2016.
WorkshoponLINKedEDucationatISWC,2015.
EmpiricalStudiesandExperimentstrackoftheInternationalSemanticWebConference(ISWC),2015.
WorkshoponExploitingSemanticAnnotationsinInformationRetrieval(ESAIR)atCIKM,2015-2016.
ACMSIGIRInternationalConferenceontheTheoryofInformationRetrieval(ICTIR),2015-2016.
InternationalSymposiumonStringProcessingandInformationRetrieval(SPIRE),2015.
SymposiumonData-DrivenProcessDiscoveryandAnalysis(SIMPDA),2015.
InternationalConferenceonKnowledgeDiscoveryandInformationRetrieval(KDIR),2015.
InternationalWorkshopontheTheoryandPracticeofSocialMachines(SOCM)atWWW,2015-2016.
SocialWebApplicationstrackattheInternationalConferenceonWebEngineering(ICWE)2015.
ACMInternationalConf.onResearchandDevelopmentinInformationRetrieval(SIGIR),2012-2016.
SocialnetworksandgraphanalysistrackattheWorldWideWebConference(WWW),2013-2014.
TheInternationalAAAIConferenceonWeblogsandSocialMedia(ICWSM)2014.
ResearchtrackoftheInternationalSemanticWebConference(ISWC),2012.
Replication,BenchmarkandDataTrackoftheInternationalSemanticWebConference(ISWC),2014.
ExtendedSemanticWebConference(ESWC),2013-2016.
ACMInternationalConferenceonInformationandKnowledgeManagement(CIKM),2011,2014.
InternationalWorkshoponSocialMediainCrowdsourcingandHumanComputationatSocInfo,2014.
InternationalConferenceonAdvancesinSemanticProcessing(SEMAPRO),2014-2016.
“Crowdsourcing”SessionattheInt.Conf.onCommunicationsandElectronics(ICCE),2014-2015.
“ComputationalScienceandComputationalIntelligence”SessionattheInt.Conf.onAdvanced
TechnologiesforCommunications(ATC),2014.
CIKM2012CityDataManagement2012Workshop.
SIGIR20121stJointInternationalWorkshoponEntity-orientedandSemanticSearch,2012.
SIGIRWorkshoponTime-awareInformationAccess(TAIA),2012-2015.
ArtificialIntelligencemeetstheWebofDataWorkshopatECAI2012andESWC2013.
InternationalWorkshoponLearningandEducationwiththeWebofDataatWWW(LILE),2012-2016.
EuropeanConferenceonInformationRetrieval(ECIR),2012-2014.
FirstInternationalWorkshoponEntity-OrientedSearch(EOS)atSIGIR,2011.
PostersandDemonstrationsTrackofthe9thIntern.SemanticWebConference(ISWC),2010.
PersonalInformationManagement(PIM)Workshop2009,2012.
ReviewerforJournals
CommunicationsoftheACM,2016.
IEEETransactionsonServicesComputing(TSC),2015-2016.
InformationProcessing&Management(IPM),2015.
InformationResearch,2015.
InformationSystems,Elsevier,2015.
Knowledge-BasedSystems,Elsevier,2015.
EngineeringApplicationsofArtificialIntelligence,Elsevier,2015.
ACMTISTSpecialIssueonCrowdinIntelligentSystems,2015.
SemanticWebjournal(SWJ)SpecialIssueonHumanComputationandCrowdsourcing(HC&C),2015
SemanticWebjournal(SWJ)SpecialIssueonOntologyandLinkedDataMatching,2014.
JournalofMachineLearningResearch(JMLR),2014.
InternationalJournalofHuman-ComputerStudies(IJHCS),2014,2016.
ACMTransactionsonInformationSystems(TOIS),2014.
SpecialIssueoftheJournalofDistributedandParallelDatabases(DAPD)on“Databasesand
Crowdsourcing”,2014.
JournalofComputerScienceandTechnology,Springer,2014.
IEEETransactionsonNeuralNetworksandLearningSystems(TNNLS),2014-2016.
ACMTransactionsontheWeb(TWEB),2013-2016.
SpecialIssueoftheJournalofWebSemanticson“SemanticSearch”,Elsevier,2013.
SpecialIssueoftheJournalofWebSemanticson“SemanticWebChallenge2013”,Elsevier,2014.
JournalofDataandInformationQuality(JDIQ),2013,2015.
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MajlesiJournalofElectricalEngineering(MJEE),2013.
IEEETransactionsonKnowledgeandDataEngineering(TKDE),2012.
Springerbookseries:"TheoryandApplicationsofNaturalLanguageProcessing",2012.
InformationRetrieval,Springer,2012,2015-2016.
InteractiveLearningEnvironments,Routledge,2012.
JournalofWebEngineering(JWE),RintonPress,2012.
IEEEComputationalIntelligenceMagazine,2011.
KnowledgeandInformationSystemsJournal(KAIS),Springer,2011.
ArtificialIntelligenceJournal(AIJ),Elsevier,2010-2011.
JournaloftheAmericanSocietyforInformationScienceandTechnology(JASIST),2010.
JournalofNetworkandComputerApplications,Elsevier,2010.
InternationalJournalofWebInformationSystems,Emerald,2009.
ExternalReviewerforConferences
ACMCHI2015alt.chitrack,2015.
InternationalConferenceonInformationSystems(ICIS)2014,ICDesignScienceTrack.
Researchtrackofthe12thInternationalSemanticWebConferenceISWC2013.
AAAIConferenceonArtificialIntelligence(AAAI-13).
1stInternationalWorkshopon“CrowdsourcingtheSemanticWeb”atISWC2013.
DemoTrackofthe38thInternationalConferenceonVeryLargeDatabasesVLDB2012.
SemanticWebTrackofthe21stInternationalWorldWideWebConferenceWWW2012.
ResearchTrackofInternationalConferenceonExtendingDatabaseTechnologyEDBT2012,2013.
In-UseTrackofthe10thInternationalSemanticWebConferenceISWC2011.
PosterTrackoftheInternationalWorldWideWebConferenceWWW2008,2013.
PosterTrackofthe31stInternationalACMSIGIR2008Conference.
SessionChairingatConferences
“Crowdsourcing&WebScience”SessionatESWC2015.
“Crowdsourcing1”SessionatWWW2014.
“SocialandCollaborativeSemantics”SessionatISWC2012.
ReviewerforFundingBodies
UKEngineeringandPhysicalSciencesResearchCouncil(EPSRC),2014-2015.
UKArts&HumanitiesResearchCouncil(AHRC),2014.
TheGermanAcademicExchangeService(DAAD),2015.
Teaching
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Moduleleaderof“BigDataAnalytics”2016/2017forMScDataScience,U.Sheffield.
Moduleleaderof“DataMiningandVisualisation”2016/2017forMScDataScience,U.Sheffield.
TeacherforModule“IntroductiontoDataScience”2016/2017forMScDataScience,U.Sheffield.
Moduleleaderof“DataMiningandVisualisation”2015/2016forMScDataScience,U.Sheffield.
TeacherforModule“IntroductiontoDataScience”2015/2016forMScDataScience,U.Sheffield.
Moduleleaderof“DataMiningandVisualisation”2014/2015forMScDataScience,U.Sheffield.
TeacherforModule“IntroductiontoDataScience”2014/2015forMScDataScience,U.Sheffield.
LeaderforModule“SocialComputing”2013/2014fortheMScinComputerScience,U.ofFribourg.
LeaderforModule“SocialComputing”2012/2013fortheMScinComputerScience,U.ofFribourg.
TeacherforModule“SocialComputing”2011/2012fortheMScinComputerScience,U.ofFribourg.
GuestteacherforModule“WebScience”2010/2011attheLeibnizUniversityofHannover.
TAfor“ArtificialIntelligenceII”2008/2009attheLeibnizUniversityofHannover.
UniversityAdministrationRoles
• ProgramCoordinatorfor“MScDataScience”2016-now,U.Sheffield.
• Deputyprogramcoordinatorfor“MScDataScience”2014-2016,U.Sheffield.
• Strategygroupmember2015-2017,InformationSchool,U.Sheffield.
Mentorship
AsaSeniorLecturerattheUniversityofSheffieldIamsupervisingPh.D.studentsaswellasM.Sc.
dissertationprojects.DuringmyPhDandpost-doc,Ihaveadvisedandmentoredundergraduate,
master,andPhDstudents.Additionally,IhavesupervisedM.Sc.thesisand30+SocialComputing
studentprojectsattheUniversityofFribourg.
CurrentPh.D.Students
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WasimAhmed,“UsingTwitterdatatoprovideinsightsintogeneralandspecifichealthconditionsand
healthrelatedevents”,startedinOctober2014.
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PhilipWebster,“Investigatingentity-centricmethodsforinformationexplorationanddiscoveryinbig
digitalarchives”,startedinOctober2015.
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MengdieZhuang,“ModelingUserActionsbasedonProcess”,startedinOctober2015.
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RehabKQarout,startedinMay2016.
ExternalExaminerforPh.D.viva
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S.M.Khelghati,“DeepWebContentMonitoring”,UTwente,Netherlands,2016.
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MicheleCatasta,“Memory-basedInformationSystems”,EPFL,Switzerland,2015.
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DjellelE.Difallah,“QualityofServiceinCrowd-PoweredSystems”,UFribourg,Switzerland,2015.
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M.Sc.ThesisSupervision
Supervisorof10MScdissertations(6inDataScience,2inInformationManagement,1inInformation
Systems,1inInformationSystemsManagement)attheUniversityofSheffield,UKduring2014/2015.
Supervisorof7MScComputerSciencedissertationsattheUniversityofFribourg,Switzerlandduring
2011-2014.
EUProjectParticipation
• EUFP7Arcomemproject(http://www.arcomem.eu).
• EUFP7LivingKnowledgeproject(http://livingknowledge.europarchive.org/).
• EUFP7Okkamproject(http://fp7.okkam.org):“EnablingtheWebofEntities”.
• EUFP7Nepomukproject(http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org):“TheSocialSemanticDesktop”.WP
Leader.
ProgrammingSkills
• Languages:Java,C#,Python,R,SQL,PHP,C,Scheme,Prolog
• Scripting/Formatting:LATEX,HTML,JS,CSS,Bash