Riccardo Zese

Assistant Professor (INF/01)
Dipartimento di Scienze chimiche, farmaceutiche ed agrarie, Università di Ferrara,
Ufficio 336

Blocco A, Polo Scientifico Tecnologico
University of Ferrara
Via Saragat 1, 44122, Ferrara, Italy

Tel: Office: +39 0532 97 4802 - Lab: +39 0532 97 4827 Fax: +39 0532 97 4802
E-Mail: riccardo.zese@unife.it
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I belong to the research groups ML@unife

Links to online systems: BUNDLE, TRILL, cplint, Online AUC calculator

Publications

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Latest Publications

[8]	Elisabetta Gentili, Alice Bizzarri, Damiano Azzolini, Riccardo Zese, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Regularization in probabilistic inductive logic programming. In International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, 2023. To appear. [ bib ]
[7]	Riccardo Zese and Elena Bellodi. A web application for reasoning on probabilistic description logics knowledge bases. Software: Practice and Experience, In Press:1--22, 2023. [ bib \| DOI \| http ]
[6]	Maria Ferrara, Eleonora Maria Alfonsina Curtarello, Elisabetta Gentili, Ilaria Domenicano, Ludovica Vecchioni, Riccardo Zese, Marco Alberti, Giorgia Franchini, Cristina Sorio, Lorenzo Benini, et al. Sex differences in schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses: results from a 30-year health record registry. Archives of Women's Mental Health, pages 1--10, 2023. [ bib ]
[5]	Marco Alberti, Riccardo Zese, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma. An Iterative Fixpoint Semantics for MKNF Hybrid Knowledge Bases with Function Symbols. In Yuliya Lierler, Jose F. Morales, Carmine Dodaro, Veronica Dahl, Martin Gebser, and Tuncay Tekle, editors, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Logic Programming (Technical Communications), volume 364 of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, pages 65--78, Waterloo, Australia, 2022. Open Publishing Association. [ bib \| DOI \| http \| .pdf ]
[4]	Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, Stefano Ferilli, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Riccardo Zese. Abduction in probabilistic logic programs. In Yuliya Lierler, Jose F. Morales, Carmine Dodaro, Veronica Dahl, Martin Gebser, and Tuncay Tekle, editors, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Logic Programming (Technical Communications), Recently Published Research track, volume 364 of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, pages 174--176, Waterloo, Australia, 2022. Open Publishing Association. [ bib \| DOI \| http ]
[3]	Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, Stefano Ferilli, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Riccardo Zese. Abduction with probabilistic logic programming under the distribution semantics. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 142:41--63, 2022. [ bib \| DOI \| http ]
[2]	Riccardo Zese, Elena Bellodi, Michele Fraccaroli, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma. Neural networks and deep learning fundamentals. In Rino Micheloni and Cristian Zambelli, editors, Machine Learning and Non-volatile Memories, pages 23--42. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022. [ bib \| DOI \| http ]
[1]	Alessandro Seravalli, Mariaelena Busani, Simone Venturi, Arianna Brutti, Carlo Petrovich, Angelo Frascella, Fabrizio Paolucci, Marco Di Felice, Michele Lombardi, Elena Bellodi, Riccardo Zese, Francesco Bertasi, Elia Balugani, Alket Cecaj, Rita Gamberini, Marco Mamei, and Marco Picone. Towards smart cities for tourism: the polis-eye project. In 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), pages 1--7, 2022. [ bib \| DOI ]

Activities

Member of the Editorial Board of Intelligenza Artificiale, the official journal of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Computer Science
Review Editor for Frontiers in Robotics and AI, specialty section on Computational Intelligence
Review Editor for Frontiers in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Member of the Editorial Board of Advances in Computer Science
Member of the Advisory Board of International Journal of Information Management and Technology
Program co-chair of
- ILP 2018 with Fabrizio Riguzzi and Elena Bellodi
- PLP 2017 with Christian Theil Have
Local organizer of
- ACAI 2018
Program Committees: LOD2023, UAI2023, IJCAI2023, KR2023, CILC2022, LOD2022, ICML2022, AAAI2022, IJCAI2022, ICLR2022, LOD2021, PLP2021, RuleML+RR2021, CILC2021, IJCLR2021 (ILP 2021), IJCAI2021 (Senior PC member), AAAI2021, ICLR2021, PLP2020, RuleML+RR2020, IJCAI-PRICAI2020, AAAI2020, ICLR2020, ILP2020, RuleML+RR2019, IJCAI2019, AAAI2019, ILP2019, ICLR2019, IJCAI-ECAI 2018, AmI 2018, NIPS 2018, PLP 2018
Member of the Organising Committee of
- AI*IA 2015
Reviewer for the PRELUDIUM grant, a funding scheme intended for young researchers who, by the proposal submission deadline, have not obtained a doctoral degree, financed by the National Science Center of Poland.

Awards

Awarded of an honourable mention for the EurAI Distinguished Dissertation Award 2016 for the PhD Thesis titled “Probabilistic Reasoning and Learning for the Semantic Web”.
Best Paper Award for “BUNDLE: A Reasoner for Probabilistic Ontologies”
by Riccardo Zese, Fabrizio Riguzzi, Evelina Lamma and Elena Bellodi at the 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR-2013)

Keynotes & Tutorials

Invited talk PLP: a brick to build your own starship at PLP 2018
Invited tutorial Probabilistic Logic Languages and Their Combination at CILC 2018
Tutorial Probabilistic Knowledge Representation in Machine Learning at AI*IA 2018
Tutorial Learning from knowledge graphs at EKAW 2018
Tutorial Probabilistic Description Logics: Reasoning and Learning at RuleML+RR 2017

Research Activities

Project ePolicy (Engineering the POlicy- making LIfe Cycle), in collaboration with the University of Bologna, Regione Emilia-Romagna, ASTER, University College Cork, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research, The University of Surrey, PPA ENERGY, Instituto De Engenharia De Sistemas E Computadores Do Porto, approved and financed under the call FP7-ICT-2001-7, project code: 288147. http://epolicy-project.eu/node
Project SORT (Sviluppo di sistemi tecnologici innovativi integrati per lo Spacchettamento, l’Organizzazione delle scorte e il Tracciamento dei prodotti alimentari sprecati finalizzati alla loro valorizzazione), in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Parma, TSP-Tecnologie e Servizi Professionali S.r.l., Plastic Sort S.r.l., Alfacod S.r.l., Curti Costruzioni Meccaniche S.p.A., approved and financed by MIUR with the DM of 13th February 2014 n. 428, registered at Corte dei Conti, 11th September 2014
Project GST4Water (Green Smart Technology for Water), industrial research project financed by POR FESR 2014-2020 in collaboration with Terra & Acqua Tech, LEA ENEA, CIRI-EA, CIRI-EC, CADF, SOGESE, XEO4, STARPLAST, VerdeAlto. https://www.gst4water.it/
Project PolisEye (POLIcy Support systEm for smart citY data governancE), industrial research project funded by the POR FESR Emilia Romagna 2014-2020 within the Intelligent Specialization Strategy (S3). https://www.poliseye.it/
Project SUPER (Supercomputing Unified Platform – Emilia-Romagna), approved and financed by POR-FESR 2014-2020 (Azione 1.5.1). https://ict.enea.it/super/
Project AI&BM4Leukemia (Artificial Intelligence and Biophotonic Microscopy for rapid and early tests in Leukemia cells), financed by the IFAB (International Foundation Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Human Development) programme year 2022.
Project THERE (auTomatic HElpeR for cEphalometry), financed in 2023 by the University of Ferrara with the 5×1000 contribution year 2020.
Project MIRC.0 (Macchina Intelligente Recupero Crediti ver. 0 – Intelligent Debt Collection Machine ver. 0), financed by MISE call PON “Enterprise and Competitiveness” 2014 – 2020 – Growth Fund Intelligent Fabrica, Agrifood Desk procedure DD 20 November 2018.

Service

Member of the Interest Group for Data Science in Food Safety Risk Assessment of the EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) for UNIFE. The technical group brings competencies in machine learning, natural language processing and data mining – from September 2021.

Teaching

Module 4 of Applicazioni dell’Intelligenza Artificiale in Medicina in the A.Y. 2019/20.
Deep Learning since A.Y. 2019/20.
Module Computer Science and Mathematics of the course Informatica, Matematica e Fisica since A.Y. 2020/21
Co-Teacher of Fondamenti di Informatica e Laboratorio (Modulo B) in the A.Y. 2018/19 and 2019/20
Seminar “Introduction to Description Logics and the Semantic Web” for the course Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence since A.Y. 2014/15

Biographic Notes

Since the 1st of January 2016, I have been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Engineering Department of the University of Ferrara.
I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Ferrara in April 2016.
I received my Laurea in Computer Engineering from the University of Ferrara in July 2012.
I am a member of AI*IA – Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale, GULP – Gruppo Ricercatori e Utenti Logic Programming
Homebrewer and ANAG taster for passion!
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