Giovanni Simonini
Associate Professor
Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolGiovanni Simonini is an Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and applied big data systems. His work—shaped by a PhD that won the 2016 IEEE Computer Society Italy Best Thesis Award and postdoctoral research at MIT CSAIL—focuses on scalable data integration, entity resolution, and cleaning across huge, heterogeneous datasets. He has blended international research stints (MIT, University of Michigan, Qatar Computing Research Institute) with hands-on development experience, bringing machine learning and big-data frameworks like Hadoop and Spark into practical solutions. Known for tackling real-world data heterogeneity at scale, he combines rigorous theory with engineering pragmatism to make messy data usable for analytics and research.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Engineering, 110 e lode, Master's Degree, Computer Engineering, 110 e lode at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Italian, English
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Github Skills (32)
duplicate-detection10
entity-resolution10
entity10
record-linkage9
spark-ml9
data-matching9
cosine-similarity8
python8
pyspark8
scala8
spark8
apache-spark8
deduplication7
artificial-intelligence7
data-quality7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Stravanni/progressiveER
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
Stravanni/ipython-pyspark-cineca
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 6 months
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