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Education

PhD researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval, University of Southern Denmark
MSc in Computer Science and Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2025
BSc in Computer and Automation Engineering, Marche Polytechnic University, 2022

Work experience

PhD Researcher, SDU Center for Industrial Software, University of Southern Denmark
- Research in artificial intelligence, information retrieval, dataset discovery, RAG, and knowledge graphs
- Teaching Assistant for the Artificial Intelligence course and supervisor of student projects
Software and DevOps Engineer, Blue Reply

Skills

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing
Information retrieval, data management, and data mining
Retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge graphs
Software engineering, DevOps, and good coding practices
Academic writing and data analytics

Publications

Faithful or Findable? Evaluating LLM-Generated Metadata for RDF Dataset Search

Riccardo Terrenzi and Serkan Ayvaz. (2026). "Faithful or Findable? Evaluating LLM-Generated Metadata for RDF Dataset Search." SynthIR Workshop at ACM SIGIR 2026.

PIPER: Content-Based Table Search via Profiling and LLM-Generated Pseudoqueries

Riccardo Terrenzi, Matteo Falconi, Serkan Ayvaz, and Pierluigi Plebani. (2026). "PIPER: Content-Based Table Search via Profiling and LLM-Generated Pseudoqueries." DEXA 2026.

Why Neighborhoods Matter: Traversal Context and Provenance in Agentic GraphRAG

Riccardo Terrenzi, Maximilian von Zastrow, and Serkan Ayvaz. (2026). "Why Neighborhoods Matter: Traversal Context and Provenance in Agentic GraphRAG." GenAIK-NORA Workshop at IJCAI-ECAI 2026.

The Open-Box Fallacy: Why AI Deployment Needs a Calibrated Verification Regime

Phongsakon Mark Konrad, Tim Lukas Adam, Ane Cathrine Holst Merrild, Riccardo Terrenzi, Rebecca De Rosa, Toygar Tanyel, and Serkan Ayvaz. (2026). "The Open-Box Fallacy: Why AI Deployment Needs a Calibrated Verification Regime." arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.10601.

A Reference Architecture for Agentic Hybrid Retrieval in Dataset Search

Riccardo Terrenzi, Phongsakon Mark Konrad, Tim Lukas Adam, and Serkan Ayvaz. (2026). "A Reference Architecture for Agentic Hybrid Retrieval in Dataset Search." 2026 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion, 542-548.

CAKE: Cloud Architecture Knowledge Evaluation of Large Language Models

Tim Lukas Adam, Phongsakon Mark Konrad, Riccardo Terrenzi, Florian Girardo Lukas, Rahime Yilmaz, Krzysztof Sierszecki, and Serkan Ayvaz. (2026). "CAKE: Cloud Architecture Knowledge Evaluation of Large Language Models." 2026 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion, 361-368.

Architecture Without Architects: How AI Coding Agents Shape Software Architecture

Phongsakon Mark Konrad, Tim Lukas Adam, Riccardo Terrenzi, and Serkan Ayvaz. (2026). "Architecture Without Architects: How AI Coding Agents Shape Software Architecture." 2026 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion, 463-468.

Riccardo Terrenzi

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