• [Jan ‘25] I won an associate professor position at eCampus University.
• [Oct ‘24] Our paper entitled “Evaluation of Dataframe Libraries for Data Preparation on a Single Machine” was accepted at EDBT 2025. A preprint is available here LINK.
• [Sept ‘24] Our paper entitled “RoBERT2VecTM: A Novel Approach for Topic Extraction in Islamic Studies” was accepted at EMNLP 2024 (findings track).
• [Jul ‘24] Our paper entitled “Stream-aware indexing for distributed inequality join processing” was accepted for publication in the scientific journal Information Systems. LINK
• [Dec ‘23] I obtained from MUR (Italian Ministry for Universities and Research) the National Scientific qualification as associate professor in the Italian higher education for the disciplinary field 09/H1 – Information processing systems.
• [Oct ‘23] Our paper entitled “GSM: A Generalized Approach to Supervised Meta-blocking for Scalable Entity Resolution” was accepted for publication in the scientific journal Information Systems.
• [May ‘23] Our short paper entitled “HKS: Efficient Data Partitioning for Stateful Streaming” was accepted at DAWAK 2023.
• [Dec ‘22] Our paper entitled “A Big Data Platform Exploiting Auditable Tokenization to Promote Good Practices inside Local Energy Communities” was accepted for publication in the scientific journal Future Generation Computer Systems.
• [Oct ‘22] I received a research grant of 9200€ from the engineering department of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (FAR) for my research project about data cleaning.
• [Apr ‘22] Our research paper entitled “Generalized Supervised Meta-blocking”, L. Gagliardelli, G. Papadakis, G. Simonini, S. Bergamaschi, T. Palpanas was accepted at VLDB 2022.

Program Committee Member

• VLDB 2026
• Since 2022: iiWAS
• Since 2021: DaWaK

Revisor

• IEEE TKDE
• Knowledge-Based Systems (KNOSIS)
• ACM SIGMOD Availability 2023

Adjunct Professor

• Since 2020
  • Foundation of Databases (Basi di Dati) @ UNIMORE DIEF, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering - Mantova
• 2023 - 2025
  • Business Intelligence @ UNIMORE DEMB, Master’s degree in International Management - Modena
• 2019
  • Foundation of Databases and Information Systems (Sistemi informativi e basi di dati) @ UNIMORE DISMI, Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Management - Reggio Emilia