Experience
Education
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PhD in Computer Science
@ University of Pisa Pisa, Italy · 2023 - ongoing
Researching Information Retrieval with a focus on efficiency and Approximate Nearest Neighbors (ANN) Search.
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MSc in Computer Science
@ University of Pisa Pisa, Italy · October 6, 2023
Graduated with honors. Thesis on Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search.
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BSc in Mathematics
@ University of Pisa Pisa, Italy · May 14, 2021
Thesis on the nature and computability of exponential algebraic structures.
Work
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Research Associate
@ ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy · 2023 - ongoing
I carry out part of my research as a PhD student at the HPC Lab of ISTI-CNR.
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Teaching Assistant
@ University of Pisa Pisa, Italy · 03/2024 - 06/2024
Held weekly Q&A sessions for students of the Algorithms and Data Structures course within the M.Sc. program in Data Science.
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Research Grant
@ ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy · 02/2023 - 08/2023
Implemented efficient data structures for vectors retrieval.
Publications
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Multivector Reranking in the Era of Strong First-Stage Retrievers
Silvio Martinico, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, and Rossano Venturini
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2026
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Efficient Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search on a Raspberry Pi
Silvio Martinico, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, and Rossano Venturini
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2025
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kANNolo: Sweet and Smooth Approximate k-Nearest Neighbors Search.
Leonardo Delfino, Domenico Erriquez, Silvio Martinico, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, and Rossano Venturini
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2025