The SEBD 2025 Doctoral Consortium will take place in a dedicated session during the conference on Monday, June 16, 2025. The goal is to provide a forum for PhD candidates to present their ongoing research and receive feedback from renowned and experienced research community members. The Consortium fosters a collaborative environment, encouraging constructive discussions and sharing of ideas. It will be an excellent opportunity for developing person-to-person networks to the benefit of the PhD students in their future careers – as well as of the community.
#1 Mirco Cazzaro (University of Padova), Mentor: Sonia Bergamaschi - Design and Development of a Polystore System for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data
#2 Francesco De Faveri (University of Padova), Mentor: Valerio Bellandi - Preserving Privacy When Processing User Queries in IR
#3 Simone Merlo (University of Padua), Mentor: Michelangelo Ceci - Towards Joint Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems
#4 Marco Martinelli (University of Padova), Mentor: Massimo Mecella - Advancing Cross-Document Relation Extraction with Hybrid Retrieval and Knowledge-Augmented Reasoning
#5 Cristina Rossetti (Università Politecnica delle Marche), Mentor: Carlo Batini - A symbolic/sub-symbolic-based framework for indicators management
#6 Roberto Maria Delfino (Sapienza University of Rome), Mentor: Diego Calvanese - Towards the Definition of a Unified Metamodeling Semantics for Knowledge Graphs
#7 Laura Papi (Sapienza University of Rome), Mentor: Massimo Mecella - Semantic Explanations and Reasoning for Machine Learning Models: An Ontology-Based Approach
#8 Albulen Pano (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Mentor: Gianluca Cima - Querying openEO datacubes through virtual knowledge graphs