Federica Mandreoli
Full Professor
My research activity is in the field of data and information management and access. My current interests mainly focus on information sharing and exchange in heterogeneous and distributed contexts, stream data management, scalable data science, and data-centric AI. In the past, I worked on non-conventional data like textual information, tree-structured and graph-structured data, on temporal databases and schema versioning, and on personalized data access. My activities within these areas cover a wide spectrum, including theory and foundations, algorithm design, software and systems, and engagement with industry.
I’m a member of the Editorial Board of the following journals:
- Associate Editor of Data Science and Engineering (Elservier)
- Associate Editor of Frontiers in High-Performance Computing – section High Performance Big Data Systems
- Review Editor of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence – section AI in Business
This is the list of the most relevant recent professional services:
- PC member of AAAI 2025, PC vice-chair of IEEE Big Data 2024, and PC chair of SEBD 2024
- panelist at the panel entitled “Role of AI in Personalized Medicine and Drug Discovery” at the Open Innovations in Life Sciences (OILS) Conference 2024 organized by Life Science Zurich
- speakers at the three-day symposium “Global Health in the Age of AI,” hosted by Fondazione Giorgio Cini, and organized by Prof. Luciano Floridi.
This is a selected list of my recent publications on these topics:
- Davide Ferrari, Veronica Guidetti, Federica Mandreoli: Multi-Objective Symbolic Regression for Data-Driven Scoring System Management IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Orlando (FL), Dec. 2022. Open source code available on GitHub;
- Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Wilma Penzo: Unleashing the power of querying streaming data in a temporal database world: A relational algebra approach. Information Systems 103: 101872 (2022);
- Karl Hribernik, Giacomo Cabri, Federica Mandreoli, Gregoris Mentzas: Autonomous, context-aware, adaptive Digital Twins – State of the art and roadmap. Computers in Industry 133: 103508 (2021)
You can find the full list of my publications here, my DBLP entry here, and my Google Scholar profile here.
Veronica Guidetti
Postdoc Researcher
I’m a postdoctorate research fellow at the FIM Department of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Within the FIM Department I collaborate closely with Professor F. Mandreoli, F. Motta and G. Buzzega. Our group is focused on Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence, and their applications in healthcare. I achieved a master (2016) and PhD degree (2021) in Theoretical Physics (FIS-02) at the University of Bologna. From October 2020 to November 2022, I was employed as a postdoc fellow at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany. My detailed CV can be found at this link . – See more at: https://www.isgroup.unimore.it/members-veronica.html#sthash.uPrbpU2G.dpuf
My research at UniMoRe focuses on interpretable Machine Learning and its applications in high stakes domains, particularly in the medical field. Specifically, together with Professor Mandreoli (UniMoRe) and Davide Ferrari (King’s college, London) we have created a multi-objective symbolic regression method capable of creating and managing non-linear, intelligible…
Federico Motta
PhD Student
I am a PhD student enrolled in the Computer and Data Science for Technological and Social Innovation (CDS-TSI) program of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), where I got my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science.
My PhD scholarship focuses on the application of Data Analytics and Machine Learning (ML) for Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory Medicine (P4M). My principal collaborators are Prof. Federica Mandreoli and Dr. Veronica Guidetti (ISGROUP), Prof. Giovanni Guaraldi and Dr. Jovana Milić from the Modena HIV Metabolic Clinic (MHMC) and Infectious Disease (ID) Unit of Modena University Hospital. While at an international level Prof. Paolo Missier (UoB) and Davide Ferrari (KCL).
My current research activity is on the design and development of an Incremental Data Preparation framework; designed to assist in detecting, debugging, and resolving data-drifts within data-engineering pipelines, particularly in the healthcare domain.
My full list of publications is available on IRIS; other pointers are: UNIMORE page, DBLP entry, ORCiD, Scopus Author ID, WoS Researcher ID.
Luca Mariotti
PhD Student
Biography
I got the Laurea degree in Computer Science from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) in 2022. I have been a Research Grant Holder at the FIM Department of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia for two years. In this time my research context was of Social Network Analysis and HRM, which use graph data structures for storing information. Now I’m a PhD student in the computer data science course at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Research interests
My research focuses on using Large Language Models (LLMs) to enrich Knowledge Graphs (KGs) by extracting relations and semantic concepts from unstructured text. Additionally, I explore alignment and distant supervision techniques to manage new entities and unlabeled relations. The work includes a comparative evaluation with other advanced approaches for Knowledge Graph Enrichment (KGE).
You can find the full list of my publications here
Mattia Billa
PhD Student
I’m a PhD student in Computer and Data Science at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where I also completed my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science in 2021 and 2023.
My research interests lie in Symbolic Regression, Evolutionary Computation, and Interpretable and Probabilistic Machine Learning. Currently, I am focused on advancing Symbolic Regression with an emphasis on uncertainty quantification, particularly in high-stakes domains like medicine. In addition, I am investigating the application of Symbolic Regression in challenging settings, such as federated learning and continual learning.
Simone Lusetti
PhD Student
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Former Members
Riccardo Martoglia
Associate Professor
Paolo Tiberio
Professor Emeritus
Matteo Vanzini
PhD Student
Luca Carafoli
PhD
Razia Haider
PhD
Enrico Ronchetti
PhD
Simona Sassatelli
PhD
Giorgio Villani
PhD
Fabio Bertarelli
PhD Student