Florina Piroi

Florina Piroi is a Senior Researcher at the Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), affiliated with the Faculty of Informatics and the Department of Data Science. She holds the role of Senior Scientist in Data Science and is a Substitute Member of the Curriculum Commission for Business Informatics. Her primary research focuses on information retrieval, medical informatics, natural language processing, and patent text mining. She leads projects such as the CLEF-IP evaluation lab and contributes to initiatives like the DoSSIER and OS Trails research programs.

Key research interests include longitudinal evaluation of machine learning models, reproducibility in NLP tasks, and knowledge graph applications in manufacturing. She has supervised PhD student Anindita M. Ningtyas, whose work addresses medical terminology accessibility for laypeople. Piroi collaborates on interdisciplinary projects, such as designing health datasets from medical forums and improving search systems for evolving corpora.

Her notable contributions include benchmarking frameworks for IR systems, semantic translation tools for industry, and methods for analyzing electrical systems. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in venues like SIGIR, CLEF, and ECIR, emphasizing practical applications in both academic and industrial contexts.