Riccardo Cantini is a PhD student in Information and Communication Technologies at the Department of Computer Science, Modeling, Electronics and Systems Engineering (DIMES) of the University of Calabria. In 2018 he joined the Scalable Computing and Cloud Laboratory (SCALab), and in 2019 he graduated magna cum laude in Computer Engineering. Since 2019 he has been a contract professor at the DIMES Department, and between 2021 and 2022 he worked as visiting researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS).
His research interests include social media and big data analysis, machine and deep learning, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, natural language processing, edge and fog computing, parallel and distributed data analysis.