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Hello, world!

My name is Gianmarco De Francisci Morales and I work as Principal Researcher at CENTAI, where I lead the Social Algorithmics Team (SALT). In the past I worked as Senior Research Scientist at ISI Foundation, Scientist at QCRI, as Visiting Scientist at Aalto University, as Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs, and as Research Associate at the HPC Lab of ISTI-CNR.

I hold a Ph.D. in CSE (Computer Science and Engineering) from IMT Lucca, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering from University of Catania.

My main research interests are understanding how controversial topics are discussed online, whether polarization is created or amplified by social media, and in applying computational methods to understand online discussions.
In the past, I also worked on scalable data mining (especially graphs and streams) and data-intensive scalable computing. Hence, I am a heavy user of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. I am a committer for Pig, and a contributor for Hadoop, Giraph, Storm, Kafka, S4, and Grafos. I am also a PPMC member and one of the original creators of SAMOA, a platform for mining big data streams.

My Ph.D. thesis explored the issues around massive-scale Web mining using DISC.
“Big Data and the Web: Algorithms for Data Intensive Scalable Computing”.
Here also my PhD proposal for the (very) interested reader.

My master’s thesis dealt with parallel multi-objective genetic algorithms for optimization of embedded systems. The software I contributed to is open source: Epic-Explorer

In my private life I love reading, cooking, traveling, and learning new languages.

Feel free to drop me an email: gdfm@acm.org

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