About
Researcher at IRPPS (CNR) working on mapping multimodal information from fake news, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Italian National Doctoral Program in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Pisa and the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. 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-Ongoing | Università di Pisa | Ph.D. | Ph.D. student 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