In my research, I leverage methodologies in Semantic Web, Network Science and Knowledge Discovery to explore the structure and evolution of science: Science of Science.

Please, use one of the following cards to navigate to my publications, the technologies I developed, the research projects I have been involved with.

 

Other Academic Activities

Chair

• 1st Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Graph (SKG2020) co-located with International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL2020)

Programme Committee membership

• Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences & Engineering Conference (SMC2020)
• 1st International Workshop on Assessing Impact and Merit in Science (AIMinScience2020) co-located with International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL2020)
• 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Reproducibility Initiative
• 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2020) Research Track
• 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2020), Science of Science track
• 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Reproducibility Initiative
• 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2019)
• 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2019) Research Track
• 16th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2019), Research of Research track
• 3rd edition of Re-coding Black Mirror Workshop (Recoding BM) co-located with the CPDP Data Protection and Democracy Conference 2019 (CPDP2019)
• 28th edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2019), Web Mining and Content Analysis track
• 1st International Workshop on Reframing Research (RefResh 2018), at the European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science (EUROCSS 2018)
• 2nd Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science (SEMSCI 2018) co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2018)
• 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2018) Research Track
• 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2018)
• 7th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2018), held in conjunction with LREC 2018
• 4th Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data Workshop co-located with The Web Conference 2018 (SAVE-SD 2018)
• 27th edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2018), Web Content Analysis, Semantics, and Knowledge track
• 9th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2017)
• Re-coding Black Mirror Workshop (Recoding BM) co-located with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2017)
• 6th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2017), held in conjunction with JCDL 2017
• 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2017) Research Track
• 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017)
• 3rd Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data Workshop co-located with the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (SAVE-SD 2017)
• 5th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2016), held in conjunction with JCDL 2016

Journal Reviewer

• Semantic Web Journal (link)
• IET Software (link)
• Journal of Computational Science (link)
• Quantitative Science Studies (link)

Technical support

• Assistant Referee during the Smart CIties RObotics Challenges (SciRoc 2019) Read more

 

Invited Talks

• Early Detection of Research Topics. Invited Talk at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (former Meta group), 2 August 2018
• AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics. Invited Talk at the Computational Data Analytics Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), 30 July 2018
• Early Detection of Research Topics. Department Research Seminar at the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University, 8 February 2017
• Introductory Lecture to Audio Signal Processing. Lecture at Human-Computer Interaction module for Computer Systems Engineering students at Politecnico di Bari, IT, 30 October 2014

 

Awards, Prizes, and Honors

• ISWC 2018 Travel Award of $700
• Runner-up at Springer Nature Hack Day: Analytics and metrics to measure the impact of science (26/27 Apr 2018 in Berlin). Read more
• Runner-up at Springer Nature Hack Day: Advancing discovery with published research data (29 Nov 2017 in London). Read more
• Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2016) at WWW 2016 for the paper Detection of Embryonic Research Topics by Analysing Semantic Topic Networks
• ISWC 2015 Travel Award of $1070

 

Mentoring

• Salvatore Zagaria , (Visiting Master Student from Polytechnic University of Bari, from March to June 2018) Klink-3: Automatic Generation of Semantic Topic Networks. Now at Vector
• Simone Angioni , (Visiting Master Student from University of Cagliari, from April to July 2019) Comparing the Scientific Output of Academia and Industry
• Hakan Ezgi Kiziloz , (Visiting Researcher from University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, from September 2018-September 2019), continuing the work on the Automatic Generation of Ontologies of Research Areas.

 

Academic Profiles