Lucio La Cava, Ph.D.
University of Calabria 🇮🇹
Contact me at:
lucio [dot] lacava [at] dimes [dot] unical [dot] it
I am an Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the Department of Computer Engineering, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems Engineering (DIMES) of the University of Calabria, Italy. Previously, I got a Ph.D. cum laude in Information and Communication Technologies at the DIMES Department of the University of Calabria, with a thesis on “Graph Mining and Multimodal Representation Learning for Decentralized Socio-Economic Domains.”
I graduated magna cum laude in Computer Engineering in 2020 at the University of Calabria. I was visiting student at the IT University of Copenhagen from January to April 2023, working in the NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS) group. I am a member of the Machine Learning, NLP and Network Science Team @Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Lab at DIMES, and junior fellow of the Complex Human Behavior Lab (CHuB) @Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK).
I’m interested in Natural Language Processing (w/ particular focus on Large Language Models), Multimodal Representation Learning (including Graph Representation Learning and Computer Vision) and Graph Mining.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 🇪🇸 Flying to Santiago de Compostela for presenting our paper on the detection and attribution of AI-generated text! |
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Sep 20, 2024 | 🥳 Paper accepted with EMNLP 2024 Findings! |
Sep 16, 2024 | 📝 New preprint out on safeguarding (decentralized) social media through LLM agents for automatic rule compliance checking 🤖 🔍 |
Jul 4, 2024 | 🥳 Paper accepted with ECAI 2024 (acceptance rate 23%) |
Jul 3, 2024 | 📝 New preprint out on hidden swing voters’ vulnerability to propaganda techniques during the 2022 Italian general elections 🗳️ 🇮🇹 |
Jun 21, 2024 | 📝 New preprint out on on the limits of LLMs in lexical entailment recognition 🔬 |
Jun 3, 2024 | 🇺🇸 Flying to Buffalo for chairing our 1st International Workshop on Decentralizing the Web (DeWeb’24) @ ICWSM! |
May 21, 2024 | 🇩🇪 Off to Stuttgart for presenting a tutorial and two papers on Decentralized Online Social Networks at WebSci’24! (Update: 🏆 Our paper “Polarization in Decentralized Online Social Networks” got the best short-paper award!) |
May 2, 2024 | I am so excited to share that my journey with the University of Calabria continues as an Assistant Professor starting today! 👨🏻💻 Looking forward to the adventures ahead! ✨ |
Feb 27, 2024 | 🎓👨🏻💻 Successfully defended (cum laude ✨) my Ph.D. dissertation “Graph Mining and Multimodal Representation Learning for Emerging Decentralized Socio-Economic Domains” 🥳 |
Jan 15, 2024 | 🧠 New preprint out on Artificial Agents mirroring human personalities through Open Large Language Models (LLMs) |
Dec 7, 2023 | 🥳 Our paper on the Twitter migration to Mastodon is out now on ScientificReports! |
Nov 6, 2023 | 🔬 Presenting my tutorial on Mastodon at ASONAM 2023 in Kusadasi, Turkey 🇹🇷 (Update: 🏆 the tutorial has been awarded for being inspiring!) |
Oct 3, 2023 | 🔥 The NFT-70M dataset is here! |
Aug 28, 2023 | 📚 Flying to Greece for the Google DeepMind Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School (M2L) in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 (Update: 🏆 I won the AEGEAN Scholarship as one of the top students!) |
Jul 24, 2023 | 💻 (Virtually) Presenting our new tool at the ACM SIGIR 2023 |
Jul 19, 2023 | 🇩🇰 Flying to Copenhagen for presenting our work on the #TwitterMigration to Mastodon 🐘 at IC2S2 2023 |
May 2, 2023 | 🇺🇸 Off to Austin for presenting our work at TheWebConf2023 (Update: 🏆 I won a Student Travel Award sponsored by Zhipu AI!) |
Apr 1, 2023 | 🥳 Paper accepted with ACM SIGIR 2023! |
Jan 25, 2023 | 🥳 Paper accepted with The ACM Web Conference 2023! (acceptance rate 19.2%) |
Jan 7, 2023 | 🚀🇩🇰 I have joined the NERDS team at ITU as a visiting PhD Student, working on the COCOONS project under the supervision of Luca Maria Aiello. It is going to be a fascinating experience! 👨🏻💻 |