name: "Lucio La Cava"
title: "Ph.D."
role: "Assistant Professor (RTD-A)"
affiliation: "DIMES Department, University of Calabria"
flag: "🇮🇹"
orcid: "0000-0003-3324-0580"
email: "lucio.lacava@dimes.unical.it"
cv: "assets/pdf/CV_LaCava_Lucio.pdf"
photo: "assets/img/prof_pic.webp"
scholar: "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9DI3nP4AAAAJ"
bio:
  - "He is an Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the DIMES Department of the University of Calabria, Italy."
  - "Previously, he earned a Ph.D. cum laude in ICT at DIMES with a thesis on Graph Mining and Multimodal Representation Learning for Decentralized Socio-Economic Domains."
  - "He was a visiting researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen, and is a member of the ML, NLP and Network Science team at the AI & Data Science Lab @DIMES."
research:
  - title: "Machine-generated text detection"
    description: "Stylometric, statistical, and representation-level forensics for synthetic text in the wild."
    icon: "fingerprint"
  - title: "LLM interpretability"
    description: "Probing residual streams to surface concepts, intent, and the geometry of model thought."
    icon: "aperture"
  - title: "Representation engineering"
    description: "Steering vectors and contrastive directions as a control surface for behaviour."
    icon: "compass"
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  - label: "ORCID"
    href: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3324-0580"
  - label: "Semantic Scholar"
    href: "https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Lucio-La-Cava/2115944163"
  - label: "ResearchGate"
    href: "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio-La-Cava/"
  - label: "Scopus"
    href: "https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57225912867"
  - label: "DBLP"
    href: "https://dblp.org/pid/296/2119.html"
  - label: "LinkedIn"
    href: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucio-la-cava"
  - label: "X"
    href: "https://x.com/luciolcw"
  - label: "Mastodon"
    href: "https://datasci.social/@luciolcw"
    rel: "me"