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Blerina Spahiu graduated at the Polytechnic University of Tirana, as Electronic Engineer, with Bachelor of Science degree, on September 2008. After it, she followed Master of Science as Electronic Engineer in the same university, and graduated on July 2012. During her master studies she worked for the National Institute of Statistics as a Information Technology Specialist until February 2014. In 2012 she started to work as an external professor in two Universities in Albania, University of Tirana, where she taught “Theory of Research” and at the University of Durres where she taught “Information System Development” and "Computer Applications". In January 2014 she joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Milan – Bicocca where she completed her PhD titled "Profiling Linked Data". During her Phd studies she has been involved in the European Project "Components Supporting the Open Data Exploitation". During 2016 she supervised the laboratories of Programming in Java. She is interested in Data Profiling, Data quality, Big Data Analytics and Semantic Web Technologies.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Computer Science
• ☆ Software Engineering
• ☆ Database Management
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Big Data Analytics
• ☆ Java

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Work Experience

Borsa di ricerca

Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

June 2017 - Present

Junior Researcher at COMSODE Project

Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

July 2014 - August 2015

External Lecturing Professor

University of Tirana

October 2012 - February 2014

External Lecturing Professor

University of Durres

October 2012 - February 2014

IT Specialist

Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication

October 2009 - February 2014

Research member for the Research Project “The socio-demographic changes and child development”

National Institute of Statistics INSTAT

February 2010 - February 2011

Specialist of Information Technology

National Institute of Statistics INSTAT

September 2008 - September 2009

Education

PhD (Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication)

Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

January 2014 - March 2017

Master of Science (Department of Information Technology)

Polytechnic University of Tirana

October 2008 - July 2012

Bachelor Degree (Department of Information Technology)

Polytechnic University of Tirana

October 2005 - September 2008

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Marco Cremaschi and Flavio De Paoli and Anisa Rula and Blerina Spahiu(2020). A fully automated approach to a complete Semantic Table Interpretation . Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 112. p. 478--500.

Blerina Spahiu and Andrea Maurino and Robert Meusel(2019). Topic profiling benchmarks in the linked open data cloud: Issues and lessons learned . Semantic Web. 10. (2). p. 329--348.

Gianluigi Viscusi and Blerina Spahiu and Andrea Maurino and Carlo Batini(2014). Compliance with open government data policies: An empirical assessment of Italian local public administrations . Information Polity. 19. (3-4). p. 263--275.

CONFERENCE PAPER

Giuseppe De Pasquale and Blerina Spahiu and Pietro Ducange and Andrea Maurino(2020). Towards Automatic Classification of Sheet Music . Proceedings of the 28th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, Villasimius, Sud Sardegna, Italy (virtual due to Covid-19 pandemic), June 21-24, 2020. 2646. p. 266--277. CEUR-WS.org

Loris Roveda and Blerina Spahiu and Walter Terkaj(2019). On the Proposal of a Unified Safety Framework for Industry 4.0 Multi-Robot Scenario . Proceedings of the 27th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto), Italy, June 16-19, 2019. 2400. CEUR-WS.org

Blerina Spahiu and Andrea Maurino and Matteo Palmonari(2018). Towards Improving the Quality of Knowledge Graphs with Data-driven Ontology Patterns and SHACL . Emerging Topics in Semantic Technologies - ISWC 2018 Satellite Events [best papers from 13 of the workshops co-located with the ISWC 2018 conference]. 36. p. 103--117. {IOS} Press

Renzo Arturo Alva Principe and Blerina Spahiu and Matteo Palmonari and Anisa Rula and Flavio De Paoli and Andrea Maurino(2018). ABSTAT 1.0: Compute, Manage and Share Semantic Profiles of RDF Knowledge Graphs . The Semantic Web: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events - ESWC 2018 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 3-7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. 11155. p. 170--175. Springer

Cheng Xie and Melisachew Wudage Chekol and Blerina Spahiu and Hongming Cai(2016). Leveraging Structural Information in Ontology Matching . 30th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2016, Crans-Montana, Switzerland, 23-25 March, 2016. p. 1108--1115.

Blerina Spahiu and Riccardo Porrini and Matteo Palmonari and Anisa Rula and Andrea Maurino(2016). ABSTAT: Ontology-Driven Linked Data Summaries with Pattern Minimalization . The Semantic Web - ESWC 2016 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 - June 2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. p. 381--395.

Blerina Spahiu and Cheng Xie and Anisa Rula and Andrea Maurino and Hongming Cai(2016). Profiling similarity links in Linked Open Data . 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDE Workshops 2016, Helsinki, Finland, May 16-20, 2016. p. 103--108.

Blerina Spahiu and Riccardo Porrini and Matteo Palmonari and Anisa Rula and Andrea Maurino(2016). ABSTAT: Ontology-driven Linked Data Summaries with Pattern Minimalization . Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Summarizing and Presenting Entities and Ontologies (SumPre 2016) co-located with the 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016), Anissaras, Greece, May 30, 2016.

Cheng Xie and Melisachew Wudage Chekol and Blerina Spahiu and Hongming Cai(2016). Leveraging Structural Information in Ontology Matching . 30th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2016, Crans-Montana, Switzerland, 23-25 March, 2016. p. 1108--1115. {IEEE} Computer Society

Matteo Palmonari and Anisa Rula and Riccardo Porrini and Andrea Maurino and Blerina Spahiu and Vincenzo Ferme(2015). ABSTAT: Linked Data Summaries with ABstraction and STATistics . The Semantic Web: ESWC 2015 Satellite Events - ESWC 2015 Satellite Events Portorož, Slovenia, May 31 - June 4, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. p. 128--132.

Robert Meusel and Blerina Spahiu and Christian Bizer and Heiko Paulheim(2015). Towards Automatic Topical Classification of LOD Datasets . Proceedings of the Workshop on Linked Data on the Web, LDOW 2015, co-located with the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015), Florence, Italy, May 19th, 2015.

Cheng Xie and Dominique Ritze and Blerina Spahiu and Hongming Cai(2015). Instance-based property matching in linked open data environment . Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 12, 2015. p. 222--223.

Blerina Spahiu(2015). Profiling Linked (Open) Data . Proceedings of the ISWC 2015 Doctoral Consortium Co-located with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 12th, 2015.