Damiano Spina

Damiano Spina is a senior lecturer at RMIT University (School of Computing Technologies), an associate investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT research leader at the Australian Internet Observatory, and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He was the recipient of an ARC Discovering Early-Career Research Award (DECRA). His main research interests are information retrieval (IR), text analytics, and data science. He currently works on evaluation of information access systems and interactive information retrieval. In his free time, he teaches capoeira at the Associação de Capoeira Descendente do Pantera (ACDP)—where he is also known as Mestre Camaleão—and plays samba with Wombatuque.