Chairholder | Paolo Papotti

Paolo Papotti got his Ph.D. degree from the University of Roma Tre (Italy) in 2007 and is an associate professor in the Data Science department at EURECOM (France) since 2017. Before joining EURECOM, he has been a scientist in the data analytics group at QCRI (Qatar) and an assistant professor at Arizona State University (USA). His research is in the broad areas of scalable data management and NLP, with a focus on data integration and information quality.

We focus on addressing the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) in handling structured data, which hinders their adoption for data-centric tasks like analyzing large tabular datasets. We aim to develop novel frameworks and architectures for encoding structured data into LLMs, thereby enabling complex table understanding capabilities in pre-trained models.