Alumni Member
Danilo Dessi (Alumni) 
Visiting PhD Research Student

Danilo Dessi' got the B.Sc. (2014) and M.Sc. (2016) degrees in Computer Science at University of Cagliari.
His B.Sc. thesis treats mobile payment technologies and recommendation systems to improve business revenues between costumers and sellers. For his Master Thesis, he worked at a regional project of the Sardinia government named "Rete Natura 2000: Valutazione dei piani di gestione e studio dei corridoi ecologici come rete complessa". The Thesis, titled A Complex Network approach to evaluate the Natura 2000 network, shows a complex indices analysis of the network on the regional land to support enviromental regional planners.
During Academic Years 2015/2016, 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 Danilo was tutor of the Computer Architecture course of the B.Sc. degree in Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari.
From June to September 2016, he was in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) for an internship at Data Science Department of Philips Research under the supervision of Dr. Sergio Consoli.
At the moment, Danilo is Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari supervised by the Professor Diego Reforgiato. His research activity focuses on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and Graph Analysis. During his PhD studies, he was visiting student of the Professor Dennis Shasha at the Center for Data Science of the New York University.
He has been visiting student at the KMi of the Professor Enrico Motta.
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Publications
Fernandez, M., Tirado, A., Pavon-Perez, A., Duddin, K., Zhang, M., Bakina, K., Bandara, A., Capdevila, R., Lazard, L. and Jurasz, O. (2025) Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, Nara, Japan
Ghafourian, Y., Hanbury, A. and Knoth, P. (2025) Ranking To Learn: Human Experts, Search Engines, or LLMs for Learning Guidance, TPDL 2025: The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Tampere, Finland
Cancellieri, M., El-Ebshihy, A., Fink, T., Fröbe, M., GaluÅ¡Äáková, P., Goeuriot, L., Iommi, D., Keller, J., Knoth, P., Mulhem, P., Piroi, F., Pride, D. and Schaer, P. (2025) Extended Abstract of LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data, 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2025), Madrid, Spain
Tsaneva, S., Dessì, D., Osborne, F. and Sabou, M. (2025) Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop, Information Processing & Management, 62, Elsevier
Cancellieri, M., Docekal, M., Pride, D., Gruenpeter, M., Douard, D. and Knoth, P. (2025) Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify, The 20th International Conference on Open Repositories, Chicago, Illinois, USA