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Francesco Gullo is an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of L’Aquila (UnivAQ), Italy, in the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics (DISIM). He got his PhD, in “Computer and Systems Engineering”, from the University of Calabria (Italy), in 2010. Before joining UnivAQ, he held positions (at various seniority levels) at the University of Calabria and University of Catanzaro (Italy), George Mason University (US), Yahoo Labs and Fundacio Barcelona Media (Spain), UniCredit banking group (Italy).
His research falls into the broad areas of artificial intelligence and data science, with emphasis on algorithmic aspects. His recent interests include graph machine learning, graph data management, natural language processing, and trustworthy AI. Within these areas/topics, he has got 100+ publications, mostly in premier venues, including PVLDB, SIGMOD, KDD, WWW, ICDM, WSDM, CIKM, TODS, TKDE, TKDD, MLJ, DAMI, TNSE, PR. He has also actively served the scientific community: he was/is/will be Associate Editor of EPJ Data Science and IJDSA journals, General co-Chair of WSDM’26, Finance Chair of CIKM’24, ADS Track PC co-Chair of ECML-PKDD’26, Workshop co-Chair of KDD’24 and ICDM’16, Industry Track PC co-Chair of ASONAM’24. He has also been an organizer of several workshops and similar satellite events of conferences, as well as stably part of the (senior) PC of top-tier conferences, including PVLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, KDD, WWW, IJCAI, AAAI, SIGIR, ICDM, WSDM, CIKM.

Please see here (curriculum vitae) for more details.

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