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Giacomo Frisoni, a third-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy, is an accomplished researcher in Knowledge-Enhanced Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, and Graph Neural Networks. 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. In September—December 2022, he was a visiting postgraduate researcher at the University of Glasgow, School of Computing Science, Scotland. He is an HuggingFace and Streamlit Student Ambassador.

Luca Ragazzi, a third-year PhD student, joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna in 2020. Having earned bachelor's and master's degrees (with honors) from the same faculty, he specializes in the field of natural language processing, with a focus on text summarization and generation in low-resource regimes of data scarcity and low-budget infrastructures. Luca has presented numerous original papers at esteemed international conferences such as AAAI, ACL, and ECAI. He also contributed as a session chair for AAAI 2023. Currently, his research is centered on computational fact-checking and low-resource summarization, utilizing up-to-date cutting-edge large language models. His aim is to advance artificial intelligence applications, particularly in high social-impact domains such as law and biomedicine.

Lorenzo Valgimigli received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and engineering. He is a third-year Ph.D. student in Natural Language Processing and Understanding at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy. His main research interests are information retrieval, semantic representation, summarization, and knowledge graph.

Paolo Italiani is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Statistical Sciences from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2019 and 2022. His research activity is mainly focused on natural language processing/understanding, graph neural networks and generative language models.

Alessio Cocchieri earned his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Bologna in 2021, with a score of 110/110 with honors. At the same institution, Alessio is currently on track to complete his two-years M.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence within October. He will be a Ph.D. student starting from November 2023. During his academic journey, Alessio had the valuable opportunity to undertake an internship at IBM Research Europe, which played a pivotal role in shaping his upcoming research endeavors. His future research will encompass various aspects of NLP/NLU, with a specific emphasis on LLMs and Multimodal LLMs, exploring their affordability to enable more accessible and cost-effective solutions within this field.

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 first-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna. His research activity mainly focuses on natural language processing, knowledge representation learning and neural reasoning.

Nicola Poggialini received the B.S. degree (with honors) in Statistics at the University of Florence in 2019. He's currently enrolled in the Artificial Intelligence M.S. degree at the University of Bologna and, since 2022, he is a research fellow for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Cesena. His research is focused on Natural Language Processing, with particular interest in Semantic Parsing and Topic Modeling.

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.