| Sep 2026 | Position paper accepted at NeurIPS 2026: Comparing Explanations is Not Enough, Explain the Change: New Standards are Needed to Explain Behavioral Shifts in Large Language Models. arXiv |
| Sep 2026 | At ECML PKDD 2026 in Naples: presented Virgil: Navigating Explainability for Transformer-based Language Models (oral and demo), chaired the session Large Language Models and AI in Biology and Medicine, and received an Outstanding Emergency Reviewer recognition (Applied Data Science Track). |
| Aug 2026 | Paper at IJCAI 2026 (Bremen): Efficient Optimization of Fixed-Length Paths, with N. Tziavelis and P. Karras. |
| Aug 2026 | Presented Explainable AI for Cancer Drug Response Prediction: Beyond Univariate Feature Attributions at KDD 2026 (Jeju Island). |
| May 2026 | The ERC Proof of Concept project ILLUME-4-Science has started. I lead the work package on demonstrating scientific impact. Read more (in Italian) |
| Mar 2026 | Paper at EDBT 2026 (Tampere): Khatri-Rao Clustering for Data Summarization, with C. Leiber, A. Gionis, and H. Mannila. |
| Sep 2025 | Presented Sample and Expand: Discovering Low-Rank Submatrices With Quality Guarantees at ECML PKDD 2025 (Porto). |
| May 2025 | Joined Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Fosca Giannotti. |
| Dec 2024 | Our work on low-memory speech recognition (SIEVE) was featured by the University of Copenhagen and Tech Xplore. |
| Aug 2024 | Presented Efficient Exploration of the Rashomon Set of Rule-Set Models at KDD 2024 (Barcelona). |
| Jan 2024 | Defended my doctoral thesis, Efficient and Trustworthy Methods for Knowledge Discovery, at Aalto University. Opponent: Prof. Angela Bonifati. |
| 2023 | Received the Aalto Doctoral Incentive Scholarship (€2,000). |
| 2022 | Received a Nokia Foundation Scholarship (€5,000) for the project Machine Learning Meets Database Management. |
| 2019 | Obtained funded doctoral positions through competitive selection at Aalto University / University of Helsinki (HIIT) and Sapienza University of Rome (ranked first); joined Aalto University. |
| 2017 | Awarded the Shell Prize for the best final-year student at the University of Glasgow (€1,500). |
| 2015–2017 | Received merit scholarships for outstanding students at the University of Bologna. |