Dr. Gianluca Demartini,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Queensland
St Lucia
QLD 4072 Australia
Office: +61 7 336 58325
demartini@acm.org
Gianluca Demartini is a Professor in Data Science and an ARC Future Fellow at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is also a Dieter Schwarz Fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. His main research interests in Data Science include Information Retrieval and Responsible Artificial Intelligence. His research is currently funded by the Australian Research Council, the Swiss National Science Foundation, Meta, Google, and the Wikimedia Foundation. He received multiple Best Paper awards at Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval conferences. He has published more than 200 scientific papers at major computer science venues such as the ACM Web Conference, ACM SIGIR, VLDB Journal, ISWC, and ACM CHI. He is an ACM Senior Member, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and TEDx speaker. His recent research has looked at the application of AI for public good. This includes, for example, applications of AI to online misinformation detection, harmful content detection, and gender and political bias in AI. This has led him to work on fundamental research challenges including data bias management, fairness in AI, and human-artificial intelligence collaboration. He serves as associate editor for the Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK) Journal and for the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ). He is a steering committee member for the AAAI HCOMP conference. He was PC Chair for the AAAI HCOMP conference in 2024, the International Semantic Web Conference in 2024, and for the ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) in 2022. He was General co-Chair for the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2021. He was Crowdsourcing and Human Computation Track co-Chair at WWW 2018 and co-chair for the Human Computation and Crowdsourcing Track at ESWC 2015. Before joining the University of Queensland, he was Lecturer at the University of Sheffield in UK, post-doctoral researcher at the eXascale Infolab at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, junior researcher at the L3S Research Center in Germany, and intern at Yahoo! Research in Spain. In 2011, he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Leibniz University of Hannover focusing on Semantic Search.
Blog/Press Coverage
Here you can find some links to blog postings and press releases that covered my research work.
- Interviewed by The Guardian about the use of Artificial Intelligence in law enforcement (Dec 2023).
- An interview about the impact of generative AI on fact-checking for Logically Facts (Dec 2023).
- An article about Free Speech in International Social Media for the Australian Institute of International Affairs (Feb 2023).
- An article about the proposed acquisition of Twitter and freedom of speech for the Australian Institute of International Affairs (May 2022).
- A panel about Managing Truth in a Post Truth World for the Trust, Ethics and Governance Alliance (TEGA) Summit 2022 (May 2022).
- An article about the UQ Ad Data Dashboard we built for the 2022 Australian federal election campaign (April 2022).
- An article for The Conversation about alternatives to Google Search (January 2021).
- An interview about Data Science industry partnerships at UQ (December 2020).
- A panel for UQ Museum about fake news (June 2020).
- An interview for Youth Time Magazine about Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence (May 2020).
- A press release by the University of Udine about identifying fake news online (April 2020, in Italian).
- A blog post by Queensland Museum Network about our collaboration on reconstructing a Book of the Dead (April 2020).
- A press release by the University of Queensland about identifying fake news online (March 2020).
- A live radio interview (starting at 39 min) about open data on ABC Radio Brisbane Drive program (March 2020).
- A live radio interview about fake news on 4ZZZ Brisbane Line (October 2019).
- Article on The Conversation about fake news (September 2019).
- The University of Queensland press release about a Facebook project on fake news (September 2019).
- A live radio interview about fake news on the Radio Adelaide Breakfast program (September 2019).
- A summary of our FashionBrain project for The DataScience Foundation blog (March 2018).
- A summary of our HCOMP 2017 paper on agreement measures in crowdsourcing for The Human Computation blog by Alessandro Checco (March 2018).
- An interview about the FashionBrain project (November 2017).
- An interview about the impact of Brexit on academics for The Conversation (June 2017).
- A summary of ECIR 2016 for The Informer by Aldo Lipani and myself (May 2016).
- Piece I wrote for The Conversation UK about the importance of data in political campaigns (December 2015).
- Post I wrote about Who links to Wikipedia: An analysis of top-level domains linking to different Wikipedia languages in the Wikipedia Blog (Feb 2015).
- Blog post I wrote about Scaling-up the Crowd: Our investigation on pricing schemes for micro-task crowdsourcing in the Follow the Crowd blog (Oct 2014).
- Blog post about the Bowlogna Ontology we developed in the LinkedUP Project Blog (Nov 2013).
- Mention to our award-winning system for entity-centric access to personal browsing history B-hist in the Wall Street Journal (Oct 2013).
- Report in German about the Crowdsourcing workshop I held at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in scilogs.com (Sep 2013).
- Blog post about Pick-A-Crowd: Our pull crowdsourcing platform that assigns tasks to workers based on their Facebook profiles in the Follow the Crowd blog (Jun 2013).
- Winners of the Crowdsourcing for Multimedia Ideas Competition at CrowdMM 2013 (Jun 2013).
- Blog post about CrowdQ: Our system for crowdsourced query understanding proposed in collaboration with UC Berkeley and Brown on the Follow the Crowd blog (Jan 2013).
- News about Ph.D. Dissertation Award from Semiramis Research and Service Unit (Apr 2012).
- Page description about our system for the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2005 (Jul 2005).
