Team
Gianluca Moro
Head of the Group
Gianluca Moro, Ph.D., is an associate professor in natural language processing, text mining and big data analytics, directing the NLP research group at Bologna’s Cesena campus. He co-organized workshops at major conferences like VLDB, AAMAS, ECIR etc. and has published over 110 papers in leading AI journals and conferences, including AAAI, EMNLP, IJCAI, ECAI, ACL, ICLR, COLING etc., serving also on conference program committees and journal editorial boards. Prof. Moro has led multiple national and international AI projects in partnership with public and private research institutions.
Giacomo Frisoni
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PostDoc
Semantic Parsing
Giacomo Frisoni received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2024. Graduating with honors in both B.S. (2017) and M.S. (2020) degrees from the University of Bologna, he has presented prolifically at top-tier conferences and received accolades, including two best paper awards. He is an HuggingFace and Streamlit Student Ambassador.
Luca Ragazzi
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PostDoc
Summarization
Luca Ragazzi, Ph.D. (2024), is a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna, specializing in NLP for impactful domains such as law and biomedicine. He has presented numerous papers at international top conferences including AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, and ICLR, chaired a session at AAAI 2023 in Washington, and completed an internship at EURECOM, France.
Paolo Italiani
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PhD Student
Graph-Augmented Language Models
Paolo Italiani received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Statistical Sciences from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2019 and 2022. He is currently a third-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna (scholarship co-funded by Maggioli Group). His research activity mainly centers on generative language models with a focus on legal applications.
Alessio Cocchieri
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PhD Student
Large Language Models
Alessio Cocchieri earned his B.S. degree in Computer Science and M.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Bologna in 2023. He is currently a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna. During his academic journey, Alessio undertaked an internship at IBM Research Europe, which played a pivotal role in shaping his upcoming research endeavors.
Lorenzo Molfetta
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PhD Student
Retrieval Augmented Generation
Lorenzo Molfetta received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and M.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2021 and 2023. He is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna. His research activity mainly focuses on knowledge representation learning and neural reasoning.
Giovanni Pio Delvecchio
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PhD Student
Neuro-Symbolic AI
Giovanni Pio Delvecchio received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Bari in 2021 and M.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Bologna in 2024. He developed his M.S. thesis at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo. He is currently a first-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna.
Yiran Zeng
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PhD Student
Knowledge Graph Representation Learning
Yiran Zeng earned his M.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2024. He is currently a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna. His research primarily centers on knowledge graph representation learning and knowledge grounding using large language models.
Faculty Members
International Research Members
Previous Collaborators
Nicola Poggialini
- 2023, Dec.
Research Fellow
Topic Modeling
Nicola Poggialini received the B.S. degree (with honors) in Statistics at the University of Florence in 2019 and the M.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bologna. Since 2022, he was a research fellow in NLP for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna with a special focus on topic modeling and semantic parsing.
Stefano Salvatori
- 2023, Mar.
Post-graduate Researcher
Cross-Modal Retrieval
Stefano Salvatori received the B.S. degree and M.S. degree with honors in computer science and engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2018 and 2021. His research interests include natural language processing, information retrieval, vision-language models and their applications. He is the author of several papers published and presented at international conferences such as AAAI and SISAP.
Lorenzo Valgimigli
- 2024, Jan.
PhD Student
Information Retrieval
Lorenzo Valgimigli received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2024 (scholarship funded by Maggioli Group). His contributions to AI and NLP are evidenced by publications in esteemed conferences like AAAI, ACL, ECAI, and EMNLP, advancing machine language processing to enhance AI’s human-like interaction capabilities.