Francesco Guerra

Francesco Guerra is a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering 'Enzo Ferrari' at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He teaches Software Engineering and Big Data Analysis. His research focuses on scalable data management, machine learning explainability, entity resolution, data mining, text analytics, semantic web, and keyword-based search on structured data.

Academic Positions:

• Rector’s delegate for ICT (since Feb 2024)
• President of Computer Engineering Degree Councils (since Nov 2022)
• Curriculum Coordinator for Computer Engineering Doctorate (2021-2023)
• Visiting Professor at University of Rijeka (2019)

Education:

• PhD in Information Engineering (2004)
• Master Degree in Information Engineering (2000)
• Classical Diploma (1992) from Liceo Classico 'L.A. Muratori'

Research Interests:
Develops explainable machine learning techniques for entity resolution and anomaly detection. Specializes in interpretable time series clustering (Time2Feat), BERT-based entity matching analysis, and pushing ML predictions into DBMS frameworks. Active in semantic keyword search and big data integration projects like KEYSTONE (COST Action 2013-2017) and Re-search Alps (2017-2019).

Projects:

• KEYSTONE COST Action: Semantic keyword search on structured data
• Re-search Alps: Big data integration for Alpine research labs
• AutoML4Clust: Automated machine learning for clustering
• FAIRnessEval: Framework for algorithmic fairness evaluation

Awards: No awards explicitly listed in the provided texts. However, his work has been funded through EU and national projects.