Damiano Spina

About

Dr. Spina is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing Technologies (Interaction, Technology, and Information discipline) at RMIT University. His research areas are Information Retrieval and Text Analytics. In particular, his research focuses on Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR), including user–system interactions in voice-enabled intelligent assistants, and evaluation of information access systems, including effectiveness measures of search engines and fairness–aware evaluation. Dr. Spina is the recipient of an ARC Discovering Early-Career Research Award (DECRA, 2020-2023) and the 2021 RMIT Award for Research Impact (Technology). Dr. Spina is also member of the RMIT-ADM+S team that won the 1st place at the international SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge and the 1st place of the dynami