STAFF PROFILE
Dr Damiano Spina
Position:
Senior Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Computing Technologies
Phone:
+61399250941
Email:
damiano.spina@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
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Research supervision
Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, Dr. Spina does research in the field of Information Retrieval and Text Analytics (Data Science), focusing on interactive information retrieval and evaluation of information access systems.
Dr. Spina is a Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow at the School of Computing Technologies (Data Science discipline) at RMIT University. His research areas are Information Retrieval and Text Analytics. In particular, his research focuses on Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) --including user-system interactions in voice-enabled intelligent assistants-- and evaluation of information access systems -- including effectiveness measures of search engines and fairness-aware evaluation.
Dr. Spina is the recipient of the 2021 RMIT Award for Research Impact (Technology).
Dr. Spina also participates in Capoeira and Samba.
Dr. Spina is the recipient of the 2021 RMIT Award for Research Impact (Technology).
Dr. Spina also participates in Capoeira and Samba.
- Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow at RMIT University, School of Computing Technologies.
- Member of the RMIT Research Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics (CIDDA).
- Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
- Editorial board member for the journals Elsevier Information Processing & Management (IP&M) and MDPI Information.
- Program Committee member for several conferences including The Web Conference, SIGIR, NAACL, CIKM, ECIR, EMNLP, and CHIIR, among others.
- Reviewer for renowned journals including Elsevier IP&M, ACM TOIS, EPJ Data Science, ACM TIST, and JASIST, among others.
Dr. Spina completed his PhD in Computer Science in (2014, UNED, Spain). Previously, he received a M.S. in Language Technologies on the Web (2011, UNED, Spain) and a Bs.D. in Computer Science (2008, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain).
- Data scientist at Signal AI in London, UK (2014-2015).
- Dr. Spina has collaborated in research with colleagues in different industry organisations such as Microsoft, Google, ABC, SEEK, Real Thing, Inference Solutions, Abbrevi8, and Llorente&Cuenca.
- Dr. Spina is the co-author of a patent on a system and method for automating the training of enterprise customer response systems using a range of dynamic or generic data sets.
- Roitero, K.,Soprano, M.,Portelli, B.,De Luise, M.,Spina, D.,Della Mea, V.,Serra, G.,Mizzaro, S.,Demartini, G. (2023). Can the crowd judge truthfulness? A longitudinal study on recent misinformation about COVID-19 In: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 27, 59 - 89
- Al Bahem, A.,Spina, D.,Scholer, F.,Cavedon, L. (2022). Component-based Analysis of Dynamic Search Performance In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40, 1 - 47
- Le, B.,Spina, D.,Scholer, F.,Chia, H. (2022). A Crowdsourcing Methodology to Measure Algorithmic Bias in Black-Box Systems: A Case Study with COVID-Related Searches In: Revised Selected Papers of the 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Bias and Fairness in Information Retrieval (BIAS 2022), Stavanger, Norway, 10 April 2022
- Qu, Y.,Roitero, K.,Barbera, D.,Mizzaro, S.,Spina, D.,Demartini, G. (2022). Combining Human and Machine Confidence in Truthfulness Assessment In: Journal of Data and Information Quality, 15, 1 - 17
- Amigó, E.,Mizzaro, S.,Spina, D. (2022). Ranking Interruptus: When Truncated Rankings Are Better and How to Measure That In: SIGIR '22: Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11/07/2022 - 15/07/2022
- Khaokaew, Y.,Holcombe-James, I.,Saiedur Rahaman, M.,Trippas, J.,Spina, D.,Ren, Y.,Sanderson, M.,Scholer, F.,Salim, F. D., et al, . (2022). Imagining future digital assistants at work: A study of task management needs In: International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 168, 1 - 17
- Saling, L.,Mallal, D.,Scholer, F.,Skelton, R.,Spina, D. (2021). No one is immune to misinformation: An investigation of misinformation sharing by subscribers to a fact-checking newsletter In: PLOS ONE, 16, 1 - 13
- Soprano, M.,Roitero, K.,Barbera, D.,Ceolin, D.,Spina, D.,Mizzaro, S.,Demartini, G. (2021). The many dimensions of truthfulness: Crowdsourcing misinformation assessments on a multidimensional scale In: Information Processing & Management, 58, 1 - 22
- Pathiyan Cherumanal, S.,Spina, D.,Scholer, F.,Croft, B. (2021). Evaluating Fairness in Argument Retrieval In: Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021), Queensland, Australia, 1-5 November 2021
- Steiner, M.,Spina, D.,Scholer, F.,Cavedon, L. (2021). Crowdsourcing Backstories for Complex Task-Based Search In: Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2021), Virtual Event, Australia, 9 December 2021
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
2 PhD Completions3 PhD Current Supervisions
Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Voice & Conversational Search, Social Media
- Fair and Transparent Information Access in Spoken Conversational Assistants. Funded by: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2020 from (2020 to 2023)
- Training intelligent virtual agents using human interaction data (phase 2). Funded by: DIIS - Innovations Connections - Competitive from (2020 to 2020)
- Training intelligent virtual agents using human interaction data. Funded by: DIIS - Innovations Connections - Competitive from (2019 to 2020)
- A Learning to Rank Framework for Entity Centrality. Funded by: Abbrevi8 Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2016)