I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Milan, advised by Paolo Boldi, as a part of the Laboratory of Web Algorithmics.

My PhD dissertation dealt with how to perform inference in complex networks when you have a great number of attributes (or features) on their nodes. For instance, we can discover that some features might repel each other or attract each other, fostering or hindering links. Discovering these patterns allows us to ask which groups of features have more effect, or to look for unusual interactions. Applications range from knowledge representation, discovering patterns in collaboration networks, to identifying surprising information.

If you're interested, here's

• My presentation slides
• My thesis [pdf, 161 pages, 6.1M]
• The articles I published from the thesis.