Research laboratory · University of Milano-Bicocca

Make data for AI.

DatAI is the research laboratory of the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo) at the University of Milano-Bicocca. We study how data management can make AI systems more grounded, inspectable and useful.

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Research specimen tray03 connected questions

D/01Data semantics

What must data mean before AI can use it?

Annotations, knowledge graphs and data enrichment with traceable inputs.

D/02Documents

How do we ask better questions of complex documents?

Structured query, retrieval and evidence-aware generation.

D/03Data & AI pipelines

How can complex pipelines remain inspectable?

Generation, composition and compliance across data and AI workflows.

One lab, five clear ways in.

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R/01Research

Four areas connected to systems, datasets, methods and public repositories.

Open research T/16Tools

Software, frameworks and research resources with project websites and Git repositories.

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Twelve confirmed members with roles, affiliations and authoritative profiles.

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The complete deduplicated Google Scholar record, searchable by title, author, venue and year.

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Verified institutional routes for collaborations, theses, internships and doctoral work.

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The group behind the work.

Faculty, doctoral researchers and research staff work across data management, knowledge representation, AI systems and distributed computing.

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The lab, in practice.

DatAI comprises four laboratories in Building U14 at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Milan: rooms 1031, 1032, 1033 and T35.

AI-assisted view of room 1033 with four generated researchers working at tidy computer desks

AI-assisted view of room 1022 with three generated researchers working at tidy computer desks

AI-assisted view of room T35 with three generated researchers working at separate tidy desks

Projects at a glance.

Current and completed projects show how DatAI research moves from methods to public, industrial and societal applications.

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Active
2025–27

DataPACT

A Horizon Europe framework and toolbox for making legal, ethical, social, environmental and technical requirements operational across data and AI pipelines.

Horizon Europe
GA 101189771

CORDIS record

Active
2025–28

APM

Automotive Predictive Maintenance develops data- and AI-driven services for anticipating failures and improving maintenance planning across heterogeneous vehicle fleets.

MIMIT
Accordi per l’innovazione

UniMiB record

Completed
2022–25

enRichMyData

A toolbox for scalable data-enrichment pipelines spanning data discovery, understanding, cleaning, transformation, integration and enrichment.

Horizon Europe
GA 101070284