About
Researcher at IRPPS (CNR) working on multimodal fake news detection. I received my Ph.D. in AI from the Italian National Doctoral Program (University of Pisa & University of Bari). In 2020, I completed a Master’s Degree in Communication Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan, developing my thesis at the DensityDesign research lab. After that, I obtained a one-year Master Degree in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining at the University of Pisa. I am a member of the XAI research Group and IVU lab.
Research Interests
My research Interests focus on Human-Centred AI, Explainable AI, Visual Analytics and Social Informatics. My Ph.D. Thesis focused on the research and development of Explanation User Interfaces. Currently, I am involved in AI4Debunk, funded by the Horizon Europe Programme.
Education, Academic and work experience
| Year | Institution | Cathegory | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-Ongoing | Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies | Researcher | working for AI4Debunk |
| 2021-2025 | Università di Pisa | Ph.D. | Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence |
| 2021 | Università di Pisa | Master Program | Master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining |
| 2020 | Politecnico di Milano | Master Degree | Master Thesis on user-generated data visualizations on Wikipedia and Commons |
| 2020 | University of Amsterdam | Summer School | Tutor during the summer school organized by the Digital Methods Initiative |
| 2020 | UNA studio | Work | Data visualization designer for the Antarctic resolution project |
| 2019 | University of Amsterdam | Summer School | Tutor during the summer school organized by the Digital Methods Initiative |
| 2019 | Politecnico di Milano | Internship | Intern at Density Design Research Lab |
| 2019 | Politecnico di Milano/ Harvard University | Project | Participated to a joint data science project between 4 students from the Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) of Harvard and 4 students from the Communication Design and Computer Engineering Masters Degree at Politecnico di Milano. |
| 2018 | Centennial College | Exchange | Exchange Student in Toronto, Interactive Media Management Master |
| 2017 | Politecnico di Milano | Bachelor Degree | Bachelor Degree in Communication Design |
Publications
For an Updated list of publications see here
Selected Projects
Selection of some projects developed throughout the years:
- Picture a Scientist, un dialogo su stereotipi e gender gap nelle discipline STEM - funded by the University of Pisa, organized by Ph.D. students form Università di Pisa e Scuola Normale Superiore
- Comizi d’Amore 2.0 - Final project of the Master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining at University of Pisa, 2021
- Predicting Travel Trends from Italy to Cuba - Project developed with 2 students from the Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS), Harvard University, and 1 student from the Computer Engineering Masters Degree at Politecnico di Milano, 2019
- Infopoetry - An archive for some of the projects developed by the Students during the Final Synthesis Studio held by DensityDesign Lab at Politecnico di Milano, 2019
Conferences and Talks
- To be updated
- CHI2023 - ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, in presence As a Student Volunteer
- Gender Equality and Artificial Intelligence, in presence As Audience
- EuroVis Conference 2022, in presence As Audience
- IUI Conference 2022,online, As Audience
- ItWikiCon2020,online, Talk: “La data visualization sui progetti Wikimedia”, Speaker
Summer and Winter Schools
- AFIRMCHI 2022 - secon biennial Franco-Italian young Researcher Meetup in Computer-Human Interaction, Padova - August 2022
- AI & Society Summer School, Pisa - July 2022
- Lipary Summer School 2022 on Data Science: Models, Algorithms, AI and Beyond, Lipari - July 2022
Teaching
- Tutor for the Data visualization course of the Master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining, 2023-2025