Fabio Crestani

Fabio Crestani is a Full Professor of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) since 2007, serving as Pro-rector for Internationalisation since March 2024. He previously held roles at the University of Strathclyde (UK) and conducted sabbaticals at institutions like UC Berkeley and Xerox PARC. His expertise spans Information Retrieval, Text Mining, and Digital Libraries, with over 250 publications and editorial leadership roles, including Editor-in-Chief of Information Processing and Management (2008–2015).

Education:

• PhD and MSc in Computing Science, University of Glasgow (UK)
• Degree in Statistics, University of Padova (Italy)

Research Interests:

• Advanced information access systems
• Conversational search and user interaction models
• Machine learning for text analysis
• Early risk prediction (e.g., mental health via social media)

Grants & Collaborations: Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, Hasler Stiftung, and EU projects. Collaborations with institutions in UK, Italy, Spain, USA, and Malaysia.

Labs & Teams: Lead the Information Retrieval Group at USI, which focuses on distributed IR, personalization, and mobile information access. The group includes 10+ researchers and has produced influential work in top-tier venues like SIGIR and ACL.