Awards & Events
Grants
ACM SIGCHI Gary Marsden Award
April 2023
I have been selected as one of the recipients of Gary Marsden Travel Award, awarded by the ACM SIGCHI society, which consisted of a full waiver of the registration fees at the CHI 2023 conference, as well as reimbursement of travel expenses. Grant assignment was decided based upon a curriculum vitae and motivations evaluation.
2022 BFAS Grant
Oct 2022
I received a BFAS Student Grant, awarded by the Belief Functions and Applications Society, which consisted of a full waiver of the registration fees at the BELIEF 2022 conference. Grant assignment was decided based upon a curriculum vitae evaluation.
Awards
EurAI Dissertation Award
Oct 2024
I have been awarded the Best Dissertation Award by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) for my PhD thesis "Robust Learning Methods for Imprecise Data and Cautious Inference", which was recognized as being the best PhD thesis on Artificial Intelligence in Europe. The award was presented at the ECAI 2024 conference.
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning - Early Career Researcher Award Runner-up
Oct 2022
I have been selected as a Runner Up for the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning Early Career Researcher Award 2022, which was presented at the BELIEF 2022 conference.
Best Paper at XAI 2024
Jul 2024
My article (with Federico Cabitza, Chiara Natali and Caterina Fregosi), titled "Explanations Considered Harmful: The Impact of Misleading Explanations on Accuracy in Hybrid Human-AI Decision Making" won one of the 2nd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence.
Best Paper at BELIEF 2022
Oct 2022
My article (with Davide Ciucci and Thierry Denoeux), titled "A Distributional Approach for Soft Clustering Comparison and Evaluation" won one of the IJAR Best Paper awards at the 7th International Conference on Belief Functions Theory and Applications.
Outstanding Paper at IPMU 2022
Jul 2022
My article (with Davide Ciucci), titled "Rough-set based Genetic Algorithms for weakly supervised feature selection" won the Outstanding Paper award at the 19th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems.
Top Reviewer at UAI 2022
Jul 2022
I've been selected for one of the Top Reviewer Awards at UAI 2022 (38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence).
Best Student Paper at IJCRS 2021
Sep 2021
My article (with Davide Ciucci), titled "Feature Reduction and Disambiguation in Learning from Fuzzy Labels using Rough Sets" won the Best Student Paper award at the 2021 International Joint Conference on Rough Sets.
Best Student Paper at IEEE CBMS 2021
Jun 2021
My article (with Lorenzo Famiglini, Giorgio Bini, Anna Carobene and Federico Cabitza) , titled "Prediction of ICU admission for COVID-19 patients: a Machine Learning approach based on Complete Blood Count data" won the Best Student Paper award at the 2021 IEEE Computer-based Medical Systems conference.
Best Presenter at ACM ICMHI 2021
May 2021
I won the Best Presenter award at the ACM 5th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics, for my article (with Valentina Cavosi and Federico Cabitza) titled "Assessing the impact of medical AI: a survey of physicians' perceptions".
Talks & Events
Invited Speaker at ECAI 2024
Oct 2024
I've been Invited Speaker for a keynote lecture with the title "Robust Learning Methods for Imprecise Data and Cautious Inference" at the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
Invited Speaker at SIBioC 2024
Oct 2024
I've been Invited Speaker for a keynote lecture with the title "Esperienza del GdS SIBioC nello sviluppo e validazione di un modello multicentrico basato su parametri ematologici per lo screening della sepsi" at the 56° National SIBioC Congress – Laboratory Medicine (SIBioC 2024), Bologna (Italy).
Invited Speaker at WUML 2024
Feb 2024
I've been Invited Speaker for a keynote lecture with the title "Credal Learning: Weakly Supervised Learning from Credal Sets" at the 5° Workshop on Uncertainty in Machine Learning (WUML 2024), Munich (Germany).
Panelist at Human-Centered AI in Healthcare @ ECSCW 2022
Apr 2022
I've been a Panelist with a talk titled "Human-AI Collaboration Protocols to Assess Real-World Options of Medical AI" at the Exploring Human-Centered AI in Healthcare workshop, organized at 2022 European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.
Invited Speaker at Thursdays with Science @ Fraunhofer AICOS Portugal
Apr 2022
I've been Invited Speaker for a keynote lecture with the title "Evaluating the Impact of AI and XAI in Medical Decision Making" at the Thursdays with Science event, organized by Fraunhofer AICOS Portugal.
Panelist at HCAI@NeurIPS 2021
Dec 2021
I've been a panelist at the Human Centered AI workshop at NeurIPS 2021 with a talk titled "From Human Centered to Interactionist Artificial Intelligence" (co-authored with Federico Cabitza).
Invited Speaker at Webinar Symposium on Digital Health
Jun 2021
I've been Invited Speaker for a keynote lecture with the title "Approaches to Reliability EValuation for AI in Health Sciences" at the Annual Symposium on Digital Health , organized by Associazione Farmaceutici Industria
Invited Speaker at Webinar "Data Anonimity, Privacy and Security - Technical and Normative Profiles in the Age of AI"
Feb 2021
I've been Invited Speaker at the Webinar Data Anonimity, Privacy and Security - Technical and Normative Profiles in the Age of AI Webinar, organized by ReD OPEN
Invited Speaker at "Privacy Day alla Bicocca"
Jan 2021
I've been Invited Speaker for a keynote lecture with the title "Privacy and AI" at the Privacy Day alla Bicocca webinar, organized by University of Milano-Bicocca and ReD OPEN