Riccardo Cantini

Riccardo Cantini

PhD student in Information and Communication Technologies

DIMES, University of Calabria

Short Bio

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.

Education

  • M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, 2019

    University of Calabria

  • B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, 2016

    University of Calabria

Recent Publications

Topic Detection and Tracking in Social Media Platforms

The large amount of information available on the Web can be effectively exploited in several domains, ranging from opinion mining to …
Topic Detection and Tracking in Social Media Platforms

Analyzing voter behavior on social media during the 2020 US presidential election campaign

Every day millions of people use social media platforms by generating a very large amount of opinion-rich data, which can be exploited …
Analyzing voter behavior on social media during the 2020 US presidential election campaign

Knowledge Discovery From Large Amounts Of Social Media Data

In recent years, social media analysis is arousing great interest in various scientific fields, such as sociology, political science, …
Knowledge Discovery From Large Amounts Of Social Media Data

Contact

  • riccardo.cantini@unical.it
  • Cubo 41C, 5th floor, via P. Bucci, Rende (CS), Calabria 87036
  • Office hours: send an email or contact me via Microsoft Teams to request a meeting