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Valentina Franzoni
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
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Contributions by subject area

Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language and Speech
Network Science and Online Social Networks
Text Mining
Sentiment Analysis
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Spatial and Geographic Information Systems

Valentina Franzoni

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Tenure-track professor at the University of Perugia, Italy, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, and lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Computer Science. She obtained her PhD at Rome Sapienza University, Dept. of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering.
Her research interests span AI, Semantic Similarity Measures, Social Networks, Affective Computing, E-Learning, and Usability.

Recent production: Evolving Meta-Correlation Classes for Binary Similarity, Advanced techniques for automated emotion recognition in dogs from video data through deep learning, From Polarization to Pro-Sociality: Measuring
Beneficence in Controversial Online Conversations

Adaptive & Self-Organizing Systems Agents & Multi-Agent Systems Algorithms & Analysis of Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Autonomous Systems Bioengineering Bioinformatics Brain-Computer Interface Computational Biology Computer Education Computer Networks & Communications Computer Vision Data Mining & Machine Learning Data Science Emerging Technologies Human-Computer Interaction Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing Natural Language & Speech Network Science & Online Social Networks Optimization Theory & Computation Robotics Security & Privacy Social Computing Software Engineering World Wide Web & Web Science

Past or current institution affiliations

Hong Kong Baptist University
University of Perugia

Work details

PhD Candidate

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
December 2014
Department of Computer, Automatic and Management Engineering "Antonio Ruberti"
artificial intelligence and knowledge

MSc student

University of Perugia
October 2009 - May 2012
Mathematics and Computer Science
Course: computer science

research fellow

University of Perugia, Italy
October 2011 - September 2012
Mathematics and Computer Science
funded from local regional government, working on usability of e-learning apps on innovative and mobile devices.

Senior research assistant

Hong Kong Baptist University
October 2012 - December 2012
Computer Science
image classification using soft semantics

research fellow

University of Perugia
April 2013 - March 2014
Mathematics and Computer Science
funded from local regional government, working on usability of QR-codes as tool for augmenting content of e-learning apps and services. Working through the university spin-off Esebel s.r.l.

research scholar

University of Perugia
April 2014 - July 2014
Mathematics and Computer Science
weak semantics, web semantics, evolutionary algorithms using web-based similarity measures as heuristics

Visiting Researcher

Hong Kong Baptist University
January 2016 - March 2016
Computer Science
short visit under supervision of Pro.Alfredo Milani, collaborating with Dr. Yuanxi Li, on the topic "Image set distances"

Websites

  • Researchgate
  • Google Scholar
  • DBLP
  • Sapienza University

PeerJ Contributions

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21 Dec 2016

Open source GIS for geological field mapping: research and teaching experience

The article provides a clear and complete overview on the state-of-the-art and on the history of GIS tools. GIS is without any doubt an important tool for many topics. While machi...