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Oct 18, 2024 ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Flying to Santiago de Compostela for presenting our paper on the detection and attribution of AI-generated text!
Sep 20, 2024 ๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted with EMNLP 2024 Findings!
Sep 16, 2024 ๐Ÿ“ New preprint out on safeguarding (decentralized) social media through LLM agents for automatic rule compliance checking ๐Ÿค– ๐Ÿ”
Jul 4, 2024 ๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted with ECAI 2024 (acceptance rate 23%)
Jul 3, 2024 ๐Ÿ“ New preprint out on hidden swing votersโ€™ vulnerability to propaganda techniques during the 2022 Italian general elections ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
Jun 21, 2024 ๐Ÿ“ New preprint out on on the limits of LLMs in lexical entailment recognition ๐Ÿ”ฌ
Jun 3, 2024 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Flying to Buffalo for chairing our 1st International Workshop on Decentralizing the Web (DeWebโ€™24) @ ICWSM!
May 21, 2024 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Off to Stuttgart for presenting a tutorial and two papers on Decentralized Online Social Networks at WebSciโ€™24!
(Update: ๐Ÿ† Our paper โ€œPolarization in Decentralized Online Social Networksโ€ 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! ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป Looking forward to the adventures ahead! โœจ
Feb 27, 2024 ๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป Successfully defended (cum laude โœจ) my Ph.D. dissertation โ€œGraph Mining and Multimodal Representation Learning for Emerging Decentralized Socio-Economic Domainsโ€ ๐Ÿฅณ
Jan 15, 2024 ๐Ÿง  New preprint out on Artificial Agents mirroring human personalities through Open Large Language Models (LLMs)
Dec 7, 2023 ๐Ÿฅณ Our paper on the Twitter migration to Mastodon is out now on ScientificReports!
Nov 6, 2023 ๐Ÿ”ฌ Presenting my tutorial on Mastodon at ASONAM 2023 in Kusadasi, Turkey ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท
(Update: ๐Ÿ† the tutorial has been awarded for being inspiring!)
Oct 3, 2023 ๐Ÿ”ฅ The NFT-70M dataset is here!
Aug 28, 2023 ๐Ÿ“š Flying to Greece for the Google DeepMind Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School (M2L) in Thessaloniki ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท
(Update: ๐Ÿ† I won the AEGEAN Scholarship as one of the top students!)
Jul 24, 2023 ๐Ÿ’ป (Virtually) Presenting our new tool at the ACM SIGIR 2023
Jul 19, 2023 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Flying to Copenhagen for presenting our work on the #TwitterMigration to Mastodon ๐Ÿ˜ at IC2S2 2023
May 2, 2023 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Off to Austin for presenting our work at TheWebConf2023
(Update: ๐Ÿ† I won a Student Travel Award sponsored by Zhipu AI!)
Apr 1, 2023 ๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted with ACM SIGIR 2023!
Jan 25, 2023 ๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted with The ACM Web Conference 2023! (acceptance rate 19.2%)
Jan 7, 2023 ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ 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! ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป