Updates
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May 1, 2026
๐ฅณ Paper accepted to IJCAI 2026!
Mar 24, 2026
โ๏ธ Flying to Morocco ๐ฒ๐ฆ for presenting our EACL 2026 Findings paper!
Mar 6, 2026
๐ฅณ Paper accepted with Information Fusion!
Mar 3, 2026
๐ New preprint out on LLM-based Argument Mining and its integration with Argumentation and Description Logics
Jan 29, 2026
๐ New preprint out on Culturally Grounded Personas in Large Language Models
Jan 20, 2026
โ๏ธ Flying to Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ for presenting our AAAI 2026 Demo paper!
Jan 9, 2026
๐ฅณ Paper accepted with Information Sciences!
Nov 3, 2025
โ๏ธ Flying to Suzhou ๐จ๐ณ for presenting our EMNLP 2025 paper, and then to Seul ๐ฐ๐ท for presenting our CIKM 2025 paper!
Oct 8, 2025
๐ New preprint out on the footprint of machine-generated text on Reddit ๐ ๐ค
Sep 28, 2025
๐ New preprint out with on Preference alignment of Large Language Models via Residual Steering โ๏ธ ๐ง ๐ค
Aug 21, 2025
๐ฉ๐ฐ Flying to Copenhagen for visiting the NERDS team at ITU, working on the COCOONS project with Luca Maria Aiello!
Aug 20, 2025
๐ฅณ Paper accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main Conference!
Aug 4, 2025
๐ฅณ Resource paper accepted with CIKM 2025!
Aug 3, 2025
๐ New preprint out on Authorship Attribution in Multilingual Machine-Generated Texts ๐ค ๐
Jul 27, 2025
๐ฆ๐น Flying to Vienna for presenting our paper on the LLMs' ability to spontaneously and conditionally modify moral expressions through text manipulation!
Jun 23, 2025
๐ฉ๐ฐ Flying to Copenaghen for chairing our Workshop on Next Generation and Alternative Social Media @ ICWSM 2025!
Jun 16, 2025
๐ฎ๐น Traveling to Ischia for the Italian Symposium On Advanced Database Systems!
May 31, 2025
๐ฅณ Paper accepted with Online Social Networks and Media!
May 20, 2025
๐ฅณ Paper accepted with Pervasive and Mobile Computing!
May 20, 2025
๐ธ๐ช Flying to Uppsala for visiting at the UU-Infolab, where I'll give a PhD-level course on Large Language Models!
May 15, 2025
๐ฅณ Paper accepted to ACL 2025 Main Conference!
Apr 15, 2025
๐ New preprint out with a novel benchmark for machine-generated text detection and attribution ๐ค ๐
Mar 15, 2025
๐ฅณ Paper accepted with Social Network Analysis and Mining!
Feb 24, 2025
๐บ๐ธ Flying to Philadelphia for presenting our paper on mimicking human personalities via LLMs!
Jan 29, 2025
๐ New preprint out on Mixture of Experts for Link Prediction in Multilayer Networks!
Nov 11, 2024
๐บ๐ธ Flying to Miami for presenting our paper on the limits of LLMs in lexical entailment recognition!
Oct 18, 2024
๐ช๐ธ Flying to Santiago de Compostela for presenting our paper on the detection and attribution of AI-generated text!
Sep 20, 2024
๐ฅณ Paper accepted to EMNLP 2024 Findings!
Sep 16, 2024
๐ New preprint out on safeguarding (decentralized) social media through LLM agents for automatic rule compliance checking ๐ค ๐
Jul 3, 2024
๐ New preprint out on hidden swing voters' vulnerability to propaganda techniques during the 2022 Italian general elections ๐ณ๏ธ ๐ฎ๐น
Jun 21, 2024
๐ New preprint out on the limits of LLMs in lexical entailment recognition ๐ฌ
Jun 3, 2024
๐บ๐ธ Flying to Buffalo for chairing our 1st International Workshop on Decentralizing the Web (DeWeb'24) @ ICWSM!
May 21, 2024
๐ฉ๐ช Off to Stuttgart for presenting a tutorial and two papers on Decentralized Online Social Networks at WebSci'24!
(Update: ๐ Our paper "Polarization in Decentralized Online Social Networks" got the best short-paper award!)
(Update: ๐ 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! ๐จ๐ปโ๐ป
Looking forward to the adventures ahead! โจ
Looking forward to the adventures ahead! โจ
Feb 27, 2024
๐๐จ๐ปโ๐ป Successfully defended (cum laude โจ) my Ph.D. dissertation "Graph Mining and Multimodal Representation Learning for Emerging Decentralized Socio-Economic Domains" ๐ฅณ
Jan 15, 2024
๐ง New preprint out on Artificial Agents mirroring human personalities through Open Large Language Models (LLMs)
Dec 7, 2023
๐ฅณ Our paper on the Twitter migration to Mastodon is out now on ScientificReports!
Nov 6, 2023
๐ฌ Presenting my tutorial on Mastodon at ASONAM 2023 in Kusadasi, Turkey ๐น๐ท
(Update: ๐ the tutorial has been awarded for being inspiring!)
(Update: ๐ the tutorial has been awarded for being inspiring!)
Oct 3, 2023
๐ฅ The NFT-70M dataset is here!
Aug 28, 2023
๐ Flying to Greece for the Google DeepMind Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School (M2L) in Thessaloniki ๐ฌ๐ท
(Update: ๐ I won the AEGEAN Scholarship as one of the top students!)
(Update: ๐ I won the AEGEAN Scholarship as one of the top students!)
Jul 24, 2023
๐ป (Virtually) Presenting our new tool at the ACM SIGIR 2023
Jul 19, 2023
๐ฉ๐ฐ Flying to Copenhagen for presenting our work on the #TwitterMigration to Mastodon ๐ at IC2S2 2023
May 2, 2023
๐บ๐ธ Off to Austin for presenting our work at TheWebConf2023
(Update: ๐ I won a Student Travel Award sponsored by Zhipu AI!)
(Update: ๐ I won a Student Travel Award sponsored by Zhipu AI!)
Apr 1, 2023
๐ฅณ Paper accepted to ACM SIGIR 2023!
Jan 25, 2023
๐ฅณ Paper accepted with The ACM Web Conference 2023! (acceptance rate 19.2%)
Jan 7, 2023
๐๐ฉ๐ฐ 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! ๐จ๐ปโ๐ป