SPAHIU BLERINA

Role
Assistant Professor  
Academic disciplines
Informatics (INFO-01/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
INFORMATICS (01/INFO-01)
Email
[email protected]

Publications

  • Moroncelli, A., Soni, V., Forgione, M., Piga, D., Spahiu, B., Roveda, L. (2026). The duality of generative AI and reinforcement learning in robotics: A review. INFORMATION FUSION, 129(May 2026) [10.1016/j.inffus.2025.104003]. Detail

  • Roveda, L., Maccarini, M., Pura, F., Reiso, F., Spahiu, B. (2025). Optimizing Parcels Sorting Through Reinforcement Learning for Intralogistics. In 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 25-30 October 2025, Bologna, Italy – Including 14th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2025) (pp.5439-5446). IOS Press BV [10.3233/FAIA251484]. Detail

  • Spahiu, B., Cremaschi, M., Maurino, A., Vizzari, G. (2025). Harnessing Large Language Models for Efficient Crowd Management in Large-Scale Events. In 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 25-30 October 2025, Bologna, Italy – Including 14th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2025) (pp.5272-5279). IOS Press BV [10.3233/faia251463]. Detail

  • Agostini, A., Maurino, A., Spahiu, B. (2025). PuckTrick: A Library for Making Synthetic Data More Realistic. In Proceedings of the 33nd Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (pp.382-398). CEUR-WS. Detail

  • Trajanov, D., Apostol, E., Garabík, R., Gkirtzou, K., Gromann, D., Liebeskind, C., et al. (2024). From Linguistic Linked Data to Big Data. In 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings (pp.7489-7502). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). Detail

Full list

Research projects

RUBAI: A Trustworthy, Modular, and High-Performing AI System
Year: 2025
Call: FAQC 2025 - seconda finestra
Grantors: Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA

Awards

Awards

  • Outstanding Paper Award at European Artificial Intelligence Conference (ECAI) in the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS) track 2025, in Bologna, Italy., ECAI 2025, 2025
  • Distinguished Research and Innovation Chair at SEMANTiCS 2025, Vienna, Austria, SEMANTiCS 2026, 2025
  • Best Poster at Language, Data and Knowledge Conference 2023, Vienna, Austria, Language, Data, and Knowledge Conference 2023, 2023
  • MobidataLab Codagon winner of the 3rd place in the challenge of Event Accessibility for Big Cities., MobiDataLab, 2023
  • The WOP 2018 Best Research Paper has been awarded to Towards Improving the Quality of Knowledge Graphs with Data-driven Ontology Patterns and SHACL by Blerina Spahiu, Andrea Maurino, and Matteo Palmonari, WOP @ ISWC 2018, 2018
  • IBM Best Student Recognition, IBM, 2016
  • Best paper award at the SumPre 2016 workshop, co-located ESWC 2016, SumPre2016 Program Committee (Andreas Thalhammer, KIT; Gong Cheng, Nanjing University; Kalpa Gunaratna, Wright State University), 2016

Scientific fellowships

  • Componente del Comitato Scientifico - COST Action CA24121 (Knowledge Graphs in the Era of Large Language Models (KGELL)) Management Committee, 2025
  • Responsabile Scientifico - COST Action CA23147 (Global Network on Large-Scale, Cross-domain and Multilingual Open Knowledge Graphs (GOBLIN) Working Group Leader, 2024
  • Fellow - COST Action CA18209 (European network for Web-centred linguistic data science (NexusLinguarum)), 2023
  • Fellow - Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI), Lugano, Switzerland, 2023

Editorial boards

  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW, 2023
  • - HUMAN-CENTRIC COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES, 2022
  • Editor di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - TRANSACTIONS ON LARGE-SCALE DATA- AND KNOWLEDGE-CENTERED SYSTEMS, 2022
  • Editor di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - International Journal of Data Science and Analysis, 2022
  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - FRONTIERS IN BIG DATA, 2022
  • Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - SEMANTIC WEB, 2020 - 2022

Research and teaching assignments

  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2023 - 2026
  • Attivita' di insegnamento - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2020 - 2021

Congresses/Conferences

  • Partecipazione al comitato organizzativo - SEMANTiCS 2024(Paesi Bassi), 2024
  • Partecipazione al comitato organizzativo - Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School(Italia), 2024
  • Partecipazione al comitato organizzativo - Knowledge Capture (K-CAP)(Stati Uniti), 2023
  • Partecipazione al comitato organizzativo - Language, Data and Knowledge(Austria), 2023
  • Program chair - International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2023
  • Program chair - Semantics Conference, 2023
  • Program chair - Extended Semantic Web Conference, 2022
  • Program chair - International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2022
  • Program chair - International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2021
  • Program chair - International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2020
  • Program chair - International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2019