Grants

Current Grants

• [2022–] NextGenerationEU – PNRR project: “SoBigData.it”
• [2022–] NextGenerationEU – PNRR project: “ICSC - Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing”
• [2022–] European project “AInCP”
• [2020–] European project “HumanE AI Net”
• [2020–] European project “SoBigData++”
• [2020–] European Broadcasting Union
• [2020–] SADAS s.r.l. “Advanced Algorithms and data structures for relational and/or graph DBs”
• [2019–] Advanced Robotics and enabling digital TEchnologies & Systems 4.0
• [2018–] Software Heritage

Past Grants

• [2021–2023] Tuscany region “I-POTERI”
• [2019–2023] MIUR PRIN 2017 “Multicriteria Data Structures and Algorithms: from compressed to learned indexes, and beyond” (national PI: Ferragina)
• [2016–2022] Google Research Award on “An algorithmic analysis of Brotli to personalized data compression”
• [2019–2021] MIT-UniPI Grant on “Using Graph Compression for Shortest Path Computation in Urban On-Demand Mobility”
• [2018–2020] Università di Pisa PRA “Emerging Trends in Data Science”
• [2018–2020] Citypost S.p.A.
• [2018–2019] Google Educator Award (EMEA) for a series of workshops to introduce secondary school teachers to Computational Thinking
• [2017–2018] Bloomberg Research Grant on “Entity Salience via Syntactic and Semantic Features”
• [2015–2019] European project “SoBigData”
• [2015–2017] STMicroelectronics Grant on “Machine-Learning techniques and models for Big data to improve quality and yield in STM”
• [2013–2015] Bando Unico di Ricerca e Sviluppo 2013 della Regione Toscana, progetto “Senta Claus”, con Net7, StudioFlu, SpazioDati
• [2013–2014] Grant Bassilichi su “Memorizzazione, analisi e visualizzazione di BigData”
• [2013–2014] Google Research Award on “A novel graph for social-network analysis and search built by entity-annotators, and its applications”
• [2012–2014] Italian MIUR-PRIN Project “ARS-Technomedia: Algoritmica per le Reti Sociali Tecno-mediate”
• [2011–2012] Google Research Award on “On-the-fly annotation of short text fragments with applications”
• [2011–2012] Telecom Italia Working Capital grant on “TagMySearch, a new semantic interface for search”
• [2009–2012] Italian MIUR-PRIN project on “The Mad Web: Models, Algorithms and Data structures for the Web and other behavioural networks”
• [2009–2012] Italian MIUR-FIRB project on a “Web service and search engine to support a semantic and pluri-lingual access to Italian Culture on the Web”
• [2006–2012] Yahoo! Research grant on “Data compression and indexing in hierarchical memories”
• [2006–2009] MIUR project FIRB Internazionalizzazione Italia-Israele on “Pattern matching and discovery algorithms on discrete structures, with applications to bioinformatics”
• [2007–2009] MIUR project “Algorithms for Massive Information Structures and Data Streams” (MAINSTREAM).
• [2005–2007] MIUR project “Next generation algorithms for the Internet and the Web — Methodologies, Design and Experimentation” (ALGO-NEXT)
• [2002–2005] MIUR project “Technologies and services for enhanced contents delivery” (ECD)
• [2001–2004] MIUR project “High-performance distributed platform”
• [2002–2004] MIUR project “Algorithms for the Internet and the Web” (ALINWEB)
• [2003] Subcontract on the EU project “QUESTION-HOW: Algorithms and data structures to implement a subset of the XQuery Language”