Organizing Committee
28 October 2025Marcos Fernandez-Pichel
Marcos Fernandez-Pichel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is also a research collaborator at Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS). He obtained his PhD in Computer Science (with honors) in 2023.
His research focuses on assessing the credibility of online health information, IR, and applying NLP to mental health. In 2022, the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences awarded him the Best Young Researcher Paper Award for his work published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI). His work has been published in top-tier conferences (e.g., SIGIR, ECIR, EMNLP, EACL) and cross-interdisciplinary journals (NPJ Digital Medicine, NLE, EAAI).
Website: https://citius.gal/team/marcos-fernandez-pichel/
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 the CNR Lead of the 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/
Kevin Roitero
Kevin Roitero is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTDb) at the University of Udine, Italy. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Crowdsourcing. He has collaborated with leading academic institutions such as the University of Sheffield, RMIT University, the University of Queensland, the Pioneer Center for Artificial Intelligence, and the University of Copenhagen, as well as with industry partners including Spotify.
His work has been published in top-tier conferences (e.g., SIGIR, WSDM, WWW, CIKM, HCOMP) and journals (TDKE, JDIQ, IRJ, IP&M), and has earned him several awards, including the “con.Scienze2020” prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science in Italy, multiple Best Paper Awards, and selection for the prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum, recognizing the top 200 young researchers in mathematics and computer science globally.
Website: https://kevinroitero.com/
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.