Pasquale Minervini
Pasquale Minervini works on natural-language processing and machine learning, especially relational data, knowledge-intensive tasks and neuro-symbolic models. He earned a computer-science doctorate at Bari in May 2014 and held UCL research appointments from October 2016 to September 2022. He joined the Edinburgh faculty in September 2022 and co-founded Miniml.AI in May 2024. His research includes robust, data-efficient learning and the use of graph structure. His group also studies question answering and biomedical language inference.
- Now at
- University of Edinburgh and Miniml.AI
- Works
- 189
- Citations
- 4,009
- h-index
- 21
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
-
May 2014
Doctorate on the Web of Data
Minervini earned a computer-science doctorate at Bari in May 2014, with a thesis on mining methods for the Web of Data. He also earned earlier bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the same university.
-
October 2016–September 2022
UCL research
He held a UCL research fellowship from October 2016 to February 2019, followed by a senior research-fellow role until September 2022. These roles concerned statistical natural-language processing and machine learning.
-
September 2022–May 2024
Edinburgh and company work
He joined the Edinburgh faculty in September 2022 and co-founded Miniml.AI and became its CTO in May 2024. Miniml.AI works on reliable generative AI for high-stakes domains.
-
As of October 2026
Knowledge and reliable language systems
His research themes include relational learning, graph-structured data, knowledge-intensive tasks, neuro-symbolic models and compositional generalization. He also works on evaluating language models and improving their efficiency and robustness.
Sources and credits
Photo: ellis.eu; Pasquale Minervini | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems; creator not stated. License: Not stated by source. Source: ellis.eu. Cropped to a square and resized. Ask us to remove or replace this photo.