Fabio Mercorio
Scholar

Fabio Mercorio

Google Scholar ID: BpjjTu0AAAAJ
Full Professor in Computer Science, University of Milano-Bicocca
Data ScienceArtificial IntelligenceExplainable AIInterpretable Machine LearningPlanning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,921
 
H-index
23
 
i10-index
40
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
32
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Paper 'Towards the Terminator Economy: Assessing Job Exposure to AI through LLMs' accepted at IJCAI-25; featured in La Repubblica, Radio24, Canadian HRReporter, Wired, RaiNews24
  • Paper 'ITALIC: An Italian Culture-Aware Natural Language Benchmark' presented at NAACL-25; covered by La Repubblica
  • Paper on LLM proficiency evaluation using Italian INVALSI benchmark accepted at ECML-PKDD-25
  • Paper 'RE-FIN: Retrieval-based Enrichment for Financial data' accepted at COLING-25
  • Developed MERLIN: a model-agnostic, global, contrastive explainer for classifiers, published in Decision Support Systems and available on GitHub
  • Serving as (Senior) Program Committee member for top-tier conferences including AAAI, IJCAI, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, ECML-PKDD, CIKM
Research Experience
  • Mar 2024–present: Full Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca
  • Oct 2024–present: Deputy Director, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca
  • 2022–present: Director of Master in AI and Data Analytics for Business, University of Milano-Bicocca
  • 2010–present: Member of Scientific Committee, CRISP Research Centre, Milan
  • Dec 2021–Feb 2024: Associate Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca
  • 2020–Aug 2023: Deputy Director of CRISP Research Centre
  • 2016–Nov 2021: Assistant Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca
  • 2011–2016: PostDoc at University of Milano-Bicocca
  • 2017–2018: Partner at TabulaeX Ltd (now LightCast), working on BI and Big Data Analytics
  • 2015–2016: Visiting Researcher at King’s College London, AI Planning Group, UK
Background
  • Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
  • Expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
  • Research interests include: eXplainable AI (XAI), interpretable models, local and global interpretation, symbolic explanation methods, fairness
  • Data Science research areas: Big Data Analytics, Ontology Learning, Word Embedding Evaluation, Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Formerly focused on AI Planning, including domain-independent planning, temporal continuous planning, and hybrid discrete-continuous domain planning