Fabio Petroni
Scholar

Fabio Petroni

Google Scholar ID: vxQc2L4AAAAJ
Group Leader, EMBL Rome
AI-driven Scientific DiscoveryMachine Knowledge
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
26,871
 
H-index
35
 
i10-index
52
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
47
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Awards: Best Poster at NeurIPS 2021 ENLSP Workshop, 1st place in both 6GB constrained and unconstrained tracks at NeurIPS Efficient Open-Domain QA competition 2020, Google Best Paper Award at AKBC 2020, Best Paper Award Runner Up at DIMWA 2019.
Research Experience
  • Researcher at FAIR (Meta AI) from 2018 to 2022, focusing on Knowledge-Intensive NLP; Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters R&D department; Data Engineer at KPMG.
Education
  • PhD from Sapienza University, advisor Prof. Leonardo Querzoni. Visiting Researcher at the Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim, supervised by Prof. Rainer Gemulla during PhD.
Background
  • Research Interests: AI-driven Scientific Discovery, Knowledge-Intensive Natural Language Processing. Background: Group Leader at EMBL Rome since September 2025; Co-Founder of Samaya AI from 2022, developing an AI-powered knowledge-discovery platform.
Miscellany
  • Invited talks include but not limited to: Panelist at ROMA.AI on Generative AI, Invited talk at Sapienza DIAG Seminar Series on Retrieval Augmented Generation, etc.