Alfio Ferrara
Rector Delegate For AI Literacy
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAlfio Ferrara is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Milan and currently serves as the Rector Delegate for AI Literacy, combining deep academic research with institutional leadership in AI education. With nearly three decades of continuous engagement at the University of Milan and a long-standing coordination role at ISLab, he specializes in databases, the semantic web, and information retrieval while shaping curricula and campus-wide AI initiatives. His career traces a classic academic progression from PhD student to full professor, underscoring sustained research productivity and mentorship. Based in Milan, he blends theoretical rigor with practical project coordination, making him a go-to bridge between research, teaching, and applied AI literacy efforts.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Github Skills (6)
information-retrieval9
sentiment-analysis9
text-mining9
natural-language-processing5
python5
data-science5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
afflint/pygen
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:49 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
afflint/textsent
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Examples and code chunks for the course of text mining and sentiment analysis
Contributions:42 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
sentiment-analysistext-mining
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