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:

Conferences and Talks

Summer and Winter Schools

Teaching


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