Fabio Crestani

Fabio Crestani has been a Full Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, since 2007. Previously he was a professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK and a postdoc at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, USA. He holds a degree in Statistics from the University of Padua (I) and a MSc and PhD in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow (UK).

Prof Crestani has been working in Information Retrieval, Text Mining and Digital Libraries for the past 30 years. In these areas he has published over two hundred refereed papers on both theoretical and experimental investigations. He has also served in the organising and program committees of several conferences and in the editorial boards of several journals.