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📣 Latest News
- [ Jun 2026 ]My PhD thesis has been awarded with the Best PhD Thesis Award of the UnivPM - Valenti Award.
- [ Apr 2026 ]Our paper has been awarded with the Best Paper Award of GOODTECHS 2026.
- [ Nov 2025 ]I have obtained the ASN (II fascia) in the sector 09/H1 - Information Processing Systems.
- [ Sep 2025 ]My PhD thesis has been awarded with the Best PhD Thesis Award by Applied System Innovation.
🎤 Invited Talks
- When AI Becomes The Target at the panel "The risks of AI" of the 1st Workshop of Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems, held as part of the ITADATA2025 (11/09/2025)
- AI-Powered, Yet Vulnerable: The Security Challenges of Artificial Intelligence at the 11th International Summer School on Industrial Agents of the IEEE - Industrial Electronics Society (30/06/2025)
- Introduzione al Machine Learning at the Technology Enhanced Learning and Advanced Technologies for Education seminars series of the italian Ph.D. programs in Learning Sciences and Digital Technologies (13/06/2025)
- CovidStat: monitorare l’andamento di una pandemia con l’analisi dei dati at the 107th National Congress of the Italian Society of Physics (13/09/2021)
🗓️ Events organization
- General Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Graph-enhanced LLMs for trustwOrthy Web data management - GLOW2 2026 (Joint event of ISWC 2026 - Bari, Italy, 25-26/10/2026)
- Session Chair of the 2nd Special Session on Graph-Based Solutions for Explainable and Efficient AI (Joint event of WCCI 2026 - Maastricht, The Netherlands, 26/06/2026)
- General Chair of the 1st Workshop on Graphs Across AI: From Structural Reasoning to Foundation Models (Joint event of WCCI 2026 - Maastricht, The Netherlands, 26/06/2026)
- General Chair of the 1st Workshop on Graph-enhanced LLMs for trustwOrthy Web data management - GLOW 2026 (Joint event of WWW 2026 - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 29/06/2026)
- Program Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Hybrid Intelligence for Internet of Everything Models and Implementations - HIEMI 2025 (Joint event of DCOSS-IoT 2025 - Lucca, Italy, 09/06/2025)
- Organization Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Visual Pattern Extraction and Recognition for Cultural Heritage Understanding - VIPERC 2023 (Joint event of TPDL 2023 - Zadar, Croatia, 25-26/09/2023), 1st International Workshop on Digital Platforms and Resources for Access to Literary Heritage - DIPRAL 2022 (Joint event of TPDL 2022 - Padova, Italy, 20/09/2022)
- Publications Chair of the 1st International Conference on Visual Pattern Extraction and Recognition for Cultural Heritage Understanding - VIPERC 2022 (Joint event of AIMSA 2022 - Pescara, Italy, 12/09/2022),
- Publicity Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Hybrid Internet of Everything Models for Industry 5.0 - (HIEMI 2022) (Joint event of DASC 2022 - Falerna, Italy, 15/09/2022), 4th International Conference on Visual Pattern Extraction and Recognition for Cultural Heritage Understanding - VIPERC 2025 (Pescara, Italy, 3-4/12/2025), 34th Symposium On Advanced Database Systems - SEBD 2026 (Senigallia, Italy, 14-18/06/2026)
📑 Editing of Scientific Journals
- Guest Editor of the Electronics special issue "Artificial Intelligence in Computer Vision: Advances and Applications" (28/11/2025 - 15/07/2026)
- Guest Editor of the Information Sciences special issue "Graph-based solutions for Artificial Intelligence" (29/10/2025 - 30/06/2026)
- Guest Editor of the Big Data and Cognitive Computing special issue "Advances in Complex Networks" (18/02/2025 - 28/03/2026)
- Guest Editor of the Algorithms special issue "Evolution of Algorithms in the Era of Generative AI" (07/04/2025 - 31/05/2026)
- Guest Editor of the Electronics special issue "Innovative Systems and Solution in Healthcare Based on AI, Blockchain and IoT" (06/08/2024 - 15/08/2025)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Knowledge Organization journal.
🏆 Awards
- Best Paper Award of the 12th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good - GOODTECHS 2026, with the article "A Framework Embedding a Multilayer Hybrid Batching Protocol for Zero-Knowledge Transparency in Supply Chains".
- Best PhD Thesis of the Valenti Award, with the thesis "From Social Interactions To Neural Connections: Understanding Complex Systems Through The Unifying Language Of Networks".
- Best PhD Thesis Award of the journal Applied System Innovation, with the thesis "From Social Interactions To Neural Connections: Understanding Complex Systems Through The Unifying Language Of Networks".
- Best Paper Award of the journal Information Processing & Management, with the article "Investigating the COVID-19 vaccine discussions on Twitter through a multilayer network-based approach".
🪧 Teaching Activities
- Lecturer of the Ph.D. Course "Complex Networks and Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Applications", part of the Ph.D. Program in Mathematics and Computer Science of the Università della Calabria (A.Y 2024/2025)
- Lecturer of the "Ethical Hacking" course, part of the M.Sc Degree in Computer and Automation Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche (A.Y 2024/2025, 2025/2026)
- Teaching Assistant of the "Data Science" course, part of the M.Sc Degree in Computer and Automation Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche (A.Y 2022/2023, 2023/2024)
- Teaching Assistant of the "Project Management" course, part of the M.Sc Degree in Computer and Automation Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche (From A.Y 2020/2021 to 2024/2025)