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May 1, 2026
๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted to IJCAI 2026!
Apr 7, 2026
๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted to ACL 2026 Main Conference!
Mar 24, 2026
โœˆ๏ธ Flying to Morocco ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ for presenting our EACL 2026 Findings paper!
Mar 6, 2026
๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted with Information Fusion!
Mar 3, 2026
๐Ÿ“ New preprint out on LLM-based Argument Mining and its integration with Argumentation and Description Logics
Jan 29, 2026
๐Ÿ“ New preprint out on Culturally Grounded Personas in Large Language Models
Jan 20, 2026
โœˆ๏ธ Flying to Singapore ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ for presenting our AAAI 2026 Demo paper!
Jan 9, 2026
๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted with Information Sciences!
Nov 3, 2025
โœˆ๏ธ Flying to Suzhou ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ for presenting our EMNLP 2025 paper, and then to Seul ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท for presenting our CIKM 2025 paper!
Oct 8, 2025
๐Ÿ“ New preprint out on the footprint of machine-generated text on Reddit ๐Ÿ”Ž ๐Ÿค–
Sep 28, 2025
๐Ÿ“ New preprint out with on Preference alignment of Large Language Models via Residual Steering โš™๏ธ ๐Ÿง  ๐Ÿค–
Aug 21, 2025
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Flying to Copenhagen for visiting the NERDS team at ITU, working on the COCOONS project with Luca Maria Aiello!
Aug 20, 2025
๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main Conference!
Aug 4, 2025
๐Ÿฅณ Resource paper accepted with CIKM 2025!
Aug 3, 2025
๐Ÿ“ New preprint out on Authorship Attribution in Multilingual Machine-Generated Texts ๐Ÿค– ๐Ÿ”
Jul 27, 2025
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Flying to Vienna for presenting our paper on the LLMs' ability to spontaneously and conditionally modify moral expressions through text manipulation!
Jun 23, 2025
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Flying to Copenaghen for chairing our Workshop on Next Generation and Alternative Social Media @ ICWSM 2025!
Jun 16, 2025
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Traveling to Ischia for the Italian Symposium On Advanced Database Systems!
May 31, 2025
๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted with Online Social Networks and Media!
May 20, 2025
๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted with Pervasive and Mobile Computing!
May 20, 2025
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Flying to Uppsala for visiting at the UU-Infolab, where I'll give a PhD-level course on Large Language Models!
May 15, 2025
๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted to ACL 2025 Main Conference!
Apr 15, 2025
๐Ÿ“ New preprint out with a novel benchmark for machine-generated text detection and attribution ๐Ÿค– ๐Ÿ”
Mar 15, 2025
๐Ÿฅณ Paper accepted with Social Network Analysis and Mining!
Feb 24, 2025
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Flying to Philadelphia for presenting our paper on mimicking human personalities via LLMs!
Feb 6, 2025
๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Gave a talk for the NetPLACE seminar series! ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Jan 29, 2025
๐Ÿ“ New preprint out on Mixture of Experts for Link Prediction in Multilayer Networks!
Dec 10, 2024
๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted to AAAI 2025 (acceptance rate 23.4%)
Nov 11, 2024
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Flying to Miami for presenting our paper on the limits of LLMs in lexical entailment recognition!
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 to 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 to ECAI 2024 (acceptance rate 23%)
Jul 3, 2024
๐Ÿ“ New preprint out on hidden swing voters' vulnerability to propaganda techniques during the 2022 Italian general elections ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
Jun 21, 2024
๐Ÿ“ New preprint out 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 (DeWeb'24) @ ICWSM!
May 21, 2024
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Off to Stuttgart for presenting a tutorial and two papers on Decentralized Online Social Networks at WebSci'24!
(Update: ๐Ÿ† 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! 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 "Graph Mining and Multimodal Representation Learning for Emerging Decentralized Socio-Economic Domains" 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 to 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