Updates
Talks, publications, courses and milestones. Click a post to browse its photos.
April 27, 2026
Attending ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro with UNIMORE. Great week of talks and posters on representation learning.
April 17, 2026
Presented "Emerging Directions in Federated Learning: One-Shot Aggregation from Client Global Statistics" (with Marco Picone and Marco Mamei) at the Flower AI Summit, hosted alongside ICLR in Rio.
November 6, 2025
Sharing our new paper "Empowering Local Energy Communities with Blockchain-based Federated Forecasting and Zero-Knowledge Proof Verification", with Marcello Pietri, Natalia Selin Hadjidimitriou, Marco Picone, Paolo Burgio, and Marco Mamei.
October 9, 2025
Gave a talk on Industrial IoT maturity levels, from network-enabled assets to AI-enabled businesses.
September 27, 2025
Open day at DISMI, showing visitors our cyber-physical systems and robotics setups.
July 31, 2025
Gave a talk on fairness in federated learning. Privacy-driven regulation like GDPR makes fair, transparent FL systems increasingly important.
July 23, 2025
Setting up new cyber-physical systems hardware in the DISMI lab, including fischertechnik automation modules alongside Arduino Pro Portenta Machine Control units.
July 10, 2025
Took part in CredemHack, the hackathon hosted at Officine Credem in partnership with Google Cloud.
July 9, 2025
Attended the 30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2025) in Bologna. A few days of talks, networking and evenings around the city.
June 27, 2025
Great day at a SpaceRaise event with Gran Sasso Tech and the Gran Sasso Science Institute, meeting other PhD researchers.
June 21, 2025
An evening hackathon session: "Hacking Time! By Night" at Officine Credem.
November 26, 2024
Presented "Forecasting Energy Availability in Local Energy Communities via LSTM Federated Learning" (with Marcello Pietri, Natalia Selin Hadjidimitriou, and Marco Mamei) at MEDES 2024, the 16th International Conference on Management of Digital Ecosystems.
October 25, 2024
Showcasing UNIMORE DISMI's robotics and automation projects at Rome Maker Faire: European Edition 2024.