I am a Research Director at the Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), working with the High-Performance Computing Laboratory.
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Mail: francomaria [.] nardini [AT] isti [.] cnr [.] it
Short Bio
Franco Maria Nardini is a Research Director with ISTI-CNR in Pisa, Italy. His research interests focus on Web Information Retrieval and Machine/Deep Learning. He authored over 100 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, conferences, and other venues. He has been General Co-Chair of ECIR 2025, Program Committee Co-Chair of SPIRE 2023, Tutorial Co-Chair of ACM WSDM 2021. He is a co-recipient of the ECIR 2025 Best Student Short Paper Award, the ACM SIGIR 2024 Best Paper Runner-Up Award, the ECIR 2022 Industry Impact Award, the ACM SIGIR 2015 Best Paper Award, and the ECIR 2014 Best Demo Paper Award. He coordinated activities in several EU and IT research projects. He is a member of the editorial board of ACM TOIS and a PC member of SIGIR, ECIR, SIGKDD, CIKM, WSDM, IJCAI, and ECML-PKDD. He currently teaches “Information Retrieval” in the Computer Science and AI Master Degrees of the University of Pisa.
Work Address
High Performance Computing Laboratory
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “Alessandro Faedo” (ISTI)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Area della Ricerca di Pisa
Building: B, Gate: 19, Floor: 1, Room: C-34
Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1
56124, Pisa, Italy
Phone: +39-050-6212969