Gianluca Demartini

Dr Gianluca Demartini is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of The University of Queensland, Australia.

Previously, he was Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, post-doctoral researcher at the eXascale Infolab at the University of Fribourg, visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, junior researcher at the L3S Research Center, and intern at Yahoo! Research.

His research interests include Web Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, and Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence.

He obtained a PhD in Computer Science at the Leibniz University of Hannover, in Germany, focusing on Entity Retrieval.

He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications in some of the top publications venues for computer science.

He is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Distinguished ACM Speaker since 2015, and a TEDx speaker.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Professor, University of Queensland
  • 2019–2024
    Associate professor , University of Queensland
  • 2017–2019
    Senior Lecturer in Data Science, University of Queensland
  • 2015–2017
    Senior Lecturer in Data Science, University of Sheffield
  • 2014–2015
    Lecturer in Data Science, University of Sheffield

Education

  • 2011 
    U. of Hannover, Germany, PhD in Computer Science
  • 2005 
    U. of Udine, Italy, MSc in Computer Science
  • 2003 
    U. of Udine, Italy, BSc in Computer Science

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  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision