CENTAI is a newly established research institute whose ambition is to push the boundaries of applied and foundational research in AI and Complex Systems
I have the honor to be PC Chair of the next edition of the legendary The Web Conf (previously known as WWW) to be held in beautiful Dubai next April. 📢 Last Call! Remember that the Abstract deadline is today! ⏰
🚨 ACM The Web Conference 2026 deadlines are just around the corner! Don’t miss your chance to submit your work!
📅 Research/Industry: Abs Sept 30, Papers Oct 7
📅 Short Papers: Abs Nov 10, Papers Nov 17
📍 Dubai · Apr 13–17, 2026
👉 www2026.thewebconf.org/impor…#TheWebConf#CFP
Excited to start my 3-month research visit at CENTAI (@CentaiInstitute) in Turin, Italy! Hosted by Dr. Francesco Bonchi (@FrancescoBonchi) and collaborating closely with Dr. Atsushi Miyauchi (@Atsushi_Miyauci). Looking forward to innovative research and fruitful discussions!
Last of 2024: "Interplay of epidemic spreading and vaccine uptake under complex social contagion"(arxiv.org/abs/2412.11766). We investigate the interaction between disease dynamics (simple contagion) & vaccine uptake (complex contagion). Results show a rich phase space.
I am extremely honoured to receive the @ERC_Research#ERCCoG award for #RUNES. For the next five years, I will be working on the mathematical, computational, and experimental (!!) sides to understand how higher-order interactions change how we think and coordinate.
📢 Results of the 2024 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out.
€678 million for 328 researchers.
Who won funding?
What will they investigate?
Where will they conduct their research?
#ERCCoG news 👉 europa.eu/!gWqYfc
🇪🇺 @HorizonEU
We are releasing DOCES (Dynamical Opinion Clusters Exploration Suite), a new Python library for studying opinion dynamics. Designed to simulate social network interactions, it allows you to model different features of social networks. Check it out at pypi.org/project/doces/
Now out "LLMs and generative agent-based models for complex systems research" (sciencedirect.com/science/ar…). We discuss how LLMs & Generative ABMs could shape research in complexity science & identify challenges and opportunities for future frontier cross-disciplinary research.
Now out: "Mechanistic interplay between information spreading and opinion polarization" (arxiv.org/abs/2410.17151). We study the impact of spreading determinants (innovation, limited memory, etc) on information cascades & polarization in social media. Thx @hfarruda @kleber_a_o
Out @iScience_CP "Echo chamber formation sharpened by priority users" (doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.…). We show the upshot of making changes in complex systems without properly addressing emergent behavior: verified users can drive polarization & echo chambers' formation in social media
After 3.5 great years at EPFL, I'm excited to share that I've joined @CentaiInstitute as a research scientist! 🎉 After nearly a decade abroad, it feels great to be back in Italy 🇮🇹. Looking forward to new projects, collaborations, and experiences with @NPLab_ and the institute!
Honored to give a Keynote Talk at #PhysCon2024, which will take place during the next few days at @khasedutr in beautiful #Istanbul. Thanks to the main organizers (@erogludnz & F. Atay) for the invitation!
1/ Today we started ACM KDD in Barcelona, the top research conference on data mining and AI, that I am co-chairing with @FrancescoBonchi. We have three keynotes by Tanya Berger-Wolf, Sanjeev Arora and Xihong Lin, and one panel on Generative AI that I will moderate.