Organizing Committee

25 October 2024 marco.viviani@unimib.it

Udo Kruschwitz

Udo Kruschwitz is a Professor of Information Science at the University of Regensburg. His main research interest is the interface between Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing with a focus on identifying and addressing toxic content and misinformation. He is particularly interested in projects that are aimed at transferring knowledge from academia into practical applications.

He considers ECIR to be his scientific home. He served as general co-chair (2023), PC co-chair (2010), organised a number of ECIR Industry Days as well as ECIR workshops such as GamifIR and NewsIR. He is also actively involved in the British Computer Society’s Information Retrieval Specialist Group currently serving as its chair.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/udo-kruschwitz-57106b5/

Marinella Petrocchi

Marinella Petrocchi

Marinella Petrocchi is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council (IIT-CNR) in Pisa, Italy, under the Trust, Security and Privacy research unit. She also collaborates with the Sysma unit at IMT School for Advanced Studies, in Lucca, Italy.

Her field of research lies between Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Specifically, she studies novel techniques for online fake news/fake accounts detection and automated methods to rank the reputability of online news media.

She is the author of several international publications on these topics and she usually gives talks and lectures on the topic. She is CNR Lead of project Humane: Holistic sUpports to inforMAtioN disordEr, under the NRRP MUR program funded by the EU – NGEU.

Website: https://www.iit.cnr.it/marinella.petrocchi/

Marco Viviani

Marco Viviani

Marco Viviani is an Associate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo). He works in the Information and Knowledge Representation, Retrieval and Reasoning (IKR3) Lab. He has been co-chair of several special tracks and workshops at international conferences, and general co-chair of MDAI 2019.

He is an Associate Editor of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Editorial Board Member of Online Social Networks and Media, and Guest Editor of several Special Issues in International Journals related to information disorder detection.

His main research activities include Social Computing, Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Trust and Reputation Management, and User Modeling. On these topics, he has written several international publications.

Website: http://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/

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