About Me

Hey visitor, got lost on the Internet? Good, I’ll take this opportunity to introduce myself!

I am Tiziano Piccardi, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University in the HCI group advised by prof. Michael Bernstein. My research interests lie at the intersection of HCI, AI, and CSS. I study the online information ecosystem and design ways to improve it (e.g., on social media platforms and Wikipedia). I am also a proud collaborator of Wikimedia Research.

I got my Ph.D. in CS from EPFL working with prof. Robert West in the Data Science Lab. During my studies, I had the opportunity to work at HP Labs and Xerox Research.

In the past, I founded a startup (Widerun), which combined virtual reality with fitness.

I am on the academic job market! If my research aligns with any relevant opportunities I’d love to chat!

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Publications

Workshop/Tutorials/Challenges Organization

Wikimedia Data How-To: Using Public Data from Wikipedia and Its Sister Projects for Academic Research @ ICWSM 2024 Website

Wiki-M3L: Wikipedia and Multi-Modal & Multi-Lingual Research @ ICLR 2022 Website

Ethical Tensions, Norms, and Directions in the Extraction of Online Volunteer Work @ CSCW 2022 website

The Wikipedia Image/Caption Matching Competition Blog post @ Wikimedia.org

Service

ICWSM (2022, SPC 2023-2024), CHI (2024), CSCW (2023),TheWebConf (2019-2024), WSDM (2023), EPJ Data Science, IC2S2 (2021-2024), CIKM (2020, 2021), ECML-PKDD (2020), WikiWorkshop (2018-2023), WebSci (2020-2024), EMNLP (2020), HT (2023), Interacting with Computers, Quantitative Science Studies

Teaching Experiences

Applied Data Analysis (CS-401), 2016-2020 (head TA & EPFL Teaching Excellence Award)

Business design for IT services (CS-490), 2017-2020

Practice of object-oriented programming (CS-108), 2021

Previous research experiences

Jul 2013 - Dec 2016, Widerun, Founder/CTO Role

Feb 2013 - Jul 2013, Xerox Research Center Europe, Visiting researcher

Aug 2012 - Nov 2012, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Visiting researcher

More info

piccardi (at) stanford.edu

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