Francesco Guerra

Office MO-27-01-034

c/o DIEF, via Vivarelli 12

41125 Modena, Italy

Short Bio

I’m Full Professor at the Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari” from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where I teach Software Engineering and Big Data Analysis.

My research interests include scalable data management and integration (I’m working on the development of Machine Learning and Deep Learning explainable and fair techniques to the Entity Resolution problem), data mining and analytics on big data (I’m working on techniques for anomaly and novelty detection, for supporting machine learning techniques in production), text analytics and NLP (I’m working on automatic textual and tabular data analysis), semantic web (I was involved in projects for the creation and alignment of ontologies), and keyword based searches on structured datasets.

I participated in European and national projects. In particular, I coordinated the KEYSTONE COST Action, years 2013-2017, (IC 1302 KEYSTONE COST Action– Semantic Keyword Search on Structured Data Sources), and the Re-search Alps (INEA/CEF/ICT/A2016/1296967) project, years 2017-2019. I was Visiting Professor at the University of Rijeka in 2019, a visiting reviewer for the AI thesis at the University of Malta (2022-2024), and Rector’s delegate to the ICT at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in the years 2024-2025.

Accademic Position

Since November 2022, President of the bachelor and master’s degree course councils in computer engineering at the Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”.
Since September 2022, I’m Full Professor at the Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. I teach Software Engineering and Big Data Analysis.
Since 2021 to 2023, Coordinator of the curriculum of Computer Engineering and Science of the Doctorate Course in ICT at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Education

Ph.D. in Information Engineering (2004). University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Master Degree in Information Engineering (2000). University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Diploma di Maturità Classica (1992). Liceo Classico “L. A. Muratori”, Modena, Italy

Institutional Web Page at UNIMORE

Institutional page

selected publications

ICDE

Explaining Entity Matching with Clusters of Words

Riccardo Benassi, Francesco Guerra, Matteo Paganelli, and Donato Tiano

In ICDE, 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icde/Benassi0PT24,
  author = {Benassi, Riccardo and Guerra, Francesco and Paganelli, Matteo and Tiano, Donato},
  booktitle = {{ICDE}},
  pages = {2325--2337},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  title = {Explaining Entity Matching with Clusters of Words},
  year = {2024}
}

VLDB

Time2Feat: Learning Interpretable Representations for Multivariate Time Series Clustering

Angela Bonifati, Francesco Del Buono, Francesco Guerra, and Donato Tiano

Proc. VLDB Endow., 2022

Bib

@article{DBLP:journals/pvldb/BonifatiB0T22,
  author = {Bonifati, Angela and Buono, Francesco Del and Guerra, Francesco and Tiano, Donato},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/pvldb/BonifatiB0T22.bib},
  journal = {Proc. {VLDB} Endow.},
  number = {2},
  pages = {193--201},
  timestamp = {Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100},
  title = {Time2Feat: Learning Interpretable Representations for Multivariate
  Time Series Clustering},
  url = {https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p193-tiano.pdf},
  volume = {16},
  year = {2022}
}

VLDB

Analyzing How BERT Performs Entity Matching

Matteo Paganelli, Francesco Del Buono, Andrea Baraldi, and Francesco Guerra

Proc. VLDB Endow., 2022

Bib

@article{DBLP:journals/pvldb/PaganelliBBG22,
  author = {Paganelli, Matteo and Buono, Francesco Del and Baraldi, Andrea and Guerra, Francesco},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/pvldb/PaganelliBBG22.bib},
  journal = {Proc. {VLDB} Endow.},
  number = {8},
  pages = {1726--1738},
  timestamp = {Wed, 29 Jun 2022 01:00:00 +0200},
  title = {Analyzing How {BERT} Performs Entity Matching},
  url = {https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p1726-paganelli.pdf},
  volume = {15},
  year = {2022}
}

TKDE

Pushing ML Predictions Into DBMSs

Matteo Paganelli, Paolo Sottovia, Kwanghyun Park, Matteo Interlandi, and Francesco Guerra

IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2023

Bib HTML

@article{DBLP:journals/tkde/PaganelliSPIG23,
  author = {Paganelli, Matteo and Sottovia, Paolo and Park, Kwanghyun and Interlandi, Matteo and Guerra, Francesco},
  journal = {{IEEE} Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.},
  number = {10},
  pages = {10295--10308},
  title = {Pushing {ML} Predictions Into DBMSs},
  volume = {35},
  year = {2023}
}

VLDB-J

A multi-facet analysis of BERT-based entity matching models

Matteo Paganelli, Donato Tiano, and Francesco Guerra

VLDB J., 2024

Bib

@article{DBLP:journals/vldb/PaganelliTG24,
  author = {Paganelli, Matteo and Tiano, Donato and Guerra, Francesco},
  journal = {{VLDB} J.},
  number = {4},
  pages = {1039--1064},
  title = {A multi-facet analysis of BERT-based entity matching models},
  volume = {33},
  year = {2024}
}