<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Aptos;
panose-1:2 11 0 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#467886;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.spelle
{mso-style-name:spelle;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:11.0pt;
mso-ligatures:none;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:70.85pt 2.0cm 2.0cm 2.0cm;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style>
</head>
<body lang="IT" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The <a href="https://www.santannapisa.it/en">
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies</a> in Pisa <span class="spelle">is</span> <span class="spelle">
seeking</span> <span class="spelle">expressions</span> of <span class="spelle">interest</span> by
<span class="spelle">potential</span> <span class="spelle">candidates</span> to <span class="spelle">
contribute</span> to a project concerning with the “<i>design and implementation of new algorithmic and AI-based solutions for compression and code-based searches in the
<a href="https://www.santannapisa.it/en/news/progetto-software-heritage-archive">
Software Heritage Archive</a></i>”. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The <a href="https://www.softwareheritage.org/">
Software Heritage Archive</a> (shortly, SWH) is an ambitious non-profit initiative launched in 2015 by INRIA (the French National Research Institute for Digital Science and Technology) in collaboration with UNESCO and several prestigious sponsors, including
Microsoft, Google, VMWare, GitHub, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. SWH is a revolutionary infrastructure that collects, preserves, and shares all the history of software development into a huge (labeled) graph, ideal for massive and sophisticated scale
analysis. To date, SWH is the world's largest archive of source code with more than 21B files originating from more than 330M projects, written by more than 85M coders. Interest in SWH and its source code is growing in the AI/ML research community, e.g., to
build pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation and summarization, as well as to train LLMs on both natural language and code to boost their performance on logical reasoning, structured understanding, and various technical tasks. SWH provides
an unprecedented opportunity for addressing a broad spectrum of needs – from code development to plagiarism detection and tracking, from AI model training to provenance and attribution of generative AI output, to cybersecurity, and more. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Junior and more senior researchers with a Master’s degree or a PhD interested in joining my research group to tackle the compression and indexing challenge on SWH are invited to submit
their CV and a few other docs following the CoI available at the following web page:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#C00000"><a href="https://www.santannapisa.it/it/selezioni/call-expression-interest" target="_BLANK"><span style="color:#C00000;text-decoration:none">https://www.santannapisa.it/it/selezioni/call-expression-interest</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Best,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Paolo Ferragina</span></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Full Professor, PhD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, I-56127 Pisa, ITALY</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">WWW: </span><a href="https://www.santannapisa.it/en/paolo-ferragina" target="_BLANK" title="https://www.santannapisa.it/en/paolo-ferragina">https://www.santannapisa.it/en/paolo-ferragina</a><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><a href="https://www.santannapisa.it/en" target="_BLANK" title="https://www.santannapisa.it/en"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="245" height="67" style="width:2.552in;height:.6979in" id="Immagine_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01DBB42E.F4F16E40" alt="signature_2895544078"></span></a><span style="color:black"> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128933" target="_BLANK" title="https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128933"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="250" height="50" style="width:2.6041in;height:.5208in" id="Immagine_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01DBB42E.F4F16E40" alt="Immagine che contiene testo, schermata, Carattere, Elementi grafici
Descrizione generata automaticamente"></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>