People

ALEXIA AMBROGIO
PhD student

FRANCESCA MARIA CERAGIOLI
Associate Professor

LEONARDO CIANFANELLI
Assistant Professor (RTD-A)

GIACOMO COMO
Full Professor

ANDREA DI NEZZA
PhD student

FABIO FAGNANI
Full Professor

BARBARA FRANCI
Assistant Professor (RTD-B)

LUISA MAZZI
Associate Professor

SEBASTIANO MESSINA
PhD student

DAVIDE SIPIONE
PhD student

Former members

Past Postdocs

• Mark Jeeninga, 2021-2023 now Post-Doc Fellow at Lund University, Sweden. 
• Stephane Durand, 2019-2022, now Research Assistant at LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, France. 
• Costanza Catalano, 2019-2020, now Researcher at Centro di Studi Banca d'Italia. 
• Rosario Maggistro, 2017-2018, now Associate Professor at Università di Trieste. 
• Enrico Lovisari, 2012-2014, now Software Developer at Zenseact, Sweden. 

Past PhD students

• Martina Alutto, Network effects and behavioral feedback in epidemic models, defended in 2025, now Post-Doc Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
• Roberta Raineri,  Subset Selection and Detection Problems in Opinion Dynamics Models, defended in 2025, now Post-Doc Fellow at DET - Politecnico di Torino.
• Martina Vanelli, Game-theoretic models for auctions in electricity markets (1,76 MB), defended in 2024, now Post-Doc Fellow at UCLouvain, Belgium.
• Laura Arditti,Game theoretic models of high order network interactions (11,41 MB), defended in 2023, now Associate Director FCP Risk Intelligence Data Analytics at UBS, Zurich, Switzerland.  
• Luca Damonte, Targeting interventions on Network Systems (9,97 MB), defended in 2023. 
• Leonardo Massai, Equilibria and Systemic Risk in Saturated Networks (10,20 MB), defended in 2022, now Research Assistant at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. 
• Leonardo Cianfanelli, Stability and network design of heterogeneous transportation systems (1,14 MB), defended in 2022, now Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino.
• Gustav Nilsson, On Robust Distributed Control of Transportation Networks, defended in 2019, now Researcher at INRIA, Grenoble, France. 
• Lorenzo Zino, Diffusion Processes on Networks, defended in 2018, now Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino.
• Barbara Franci, Network Cooperative Models (1,94 MB), defended in 2018, now Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino.
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi, Analysis and Control of the Linear Threshold Model of Cascades in Large-Scale Networks. A Local Mean-Field Approach, defended in 2015.   
• Domenica Borra, Localization and optimization problems for camera networks, defended in 2013. 
• Chiara Ravazzi, Asymptotic analysis of turbo-like codes. Average spectra and minimum distances (1,16 MB), defended in 2011, now researcher at CNR, Torino.   
• Sophie Fosson, Deconvolution of Quantized-Input Linear Systems: An Information-Theoretic Approach, defended in 2011, now Associate Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino. 
• Paolo Frasca, Distributed optimization with communication constraints, defended in 2009, now Researcher at CNRS, Grenoble, France. 
• Federica Garin, Generalized serial turbo coding ensembles: analysis and design, defended in 2008, now Researcher at INRIA, Grenoble, France. 

Past Master Thesis Students

• Francesca Battaglia, A Markovian model for predicting the impact of prevention interventions on a population with multiple behavioral risk factors, defended on 10/10/2025
• Lucia Ghezzi, Networked Public Good Games: Equilibria and Best Response Dynamics, defended on 10/10/2025
• Francesca Musella, Shocks and Defaults in Production Networks: a Theoretical and Simulation-Based Analysis, defended on 10/10/2025
• Andrea Di Nezza, A multi-agent path finding instance: the matrix problem, defended on 9/10/2025
• Davide Sipione, On convexity and stability of multicommodity dynamical flow networks, defended on 25/10/2024
• Sergio Augusto Angelini, Game theoretical models for the day ahead electricity market, defended on 3/10/2023
• Alexia Ambrogio, Information Design in Bayesian Routing Games, defended on 24/03/2023.
• Davide Battaglia, SMaILE game: application of search and learning algorithm within combinatorial game theory, defended on 20/12/2022.
• Marco Ratta, Introducing fractionalization index in Balance theory, defended on 4/10/2022.
• Andrea Bertolini, Decentralized Algorithms for Multi-Agent Pathfinding, defended on 4/10/2022.
• Hafez Ghaemi, Decentralized Value-Based Reinforcement Learning in Stochastic Potential Games, defended on 29/07/2022.
• Tommaso Toso, Analysis of learning dynamics in heterogeneous routing games, defended on 5/10/2021.
• Francesco Zappia, Detecting Echo Chambers in social media; a graph-based approach, defended on 27/07/2021.
• Carmelo Riccardo Civello, Markovian modeling and simulations for the cost-public health return analysis of prevention campaigns, defended on 14/07/2021.
• Martina Alutto, Feedback Control Policies and Network Effects in Epidemics Models, defended on 19/03/2021.
• Raffaele Damiano, Discrete Bayesian Optimization algorithms and applications, defended on 30/11/2020.
• Roberta Raineri, Genetic Algorithms for Discrete Bayesian Optimization, defended on 30/11/2020.
• Silvia Canavesio, Population Markov models for the analysis of public health policies, defended on 30/11/2020.
• Michele Da Re, Distributed algorithms for autonomous target search problems, defended on 30/11/2020.
• Lucrezia Carboni, Network embedding for brain connectivity, defended on 5/10/2020.
• Anton Arbman Hansing, Public Goods on Networks : Statics, Welfare & Mechanisms, defended on 1/6/2020.
• Michele Rendine, Between Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Connect-R, defended on 27/03/2020.
• Joseph Stanton, Study of Mutual Exclusion Invariants in Planning Processes, defended on 02/12/2019.
• Alessandra Lo Piano Rametta, Goal Recognition Design - Artificial intelligence techniques in surveillance problems, defended on 25/10/2019.
• Amani Ja’far, A Data-driven system for learning driver behaviors from IMU data, defended on 9/10/2019.
• Maria Castaldo, Centrality Maximization Game, defended on 8/10/2019. 
• Martina Vanelli, On network games with coordinating and anti-coordinating agents, defended on 8/10/2019. 
• Giulia Peluffo, Learning models and the wisdom of crowds, defended on 28/03/2019.
• Alessandro Mastrototaro, A mathematical model for the emergence of innovations, defended on 15/10/2018.
• Domenica Verbaro, Machine Learning for crash event detection from black-box data, defended on 15/10/2018.
• Simon Paulsson, Tuning Feedback-Based Traffic Signal Controls, defended on 21/9/2018.
• Luca Damonte, On Shocks in Economic Networks, defended on 17/9/2018. 
• Rasmus Stålberg, On Robustness of Equilibria in Transportation Networks, defended on 12/9/2018.
• Isabelle Rosenberg, On Shock Propagation in Financial Networks, defended on 15/6/2018.
• Viktor Svensson, On Shock Propagation in Financial Networks, defended on 15/6/2018.
• Joakim Guth, On Distributed Maximization of Influence in Social Networks, defended on 11/10/2017.
• Christian Rosdahl, Distributed Control of Dynamic Flows in Traffic Networks, defended on 21/8/2017.
• Nicol ́as Bordonaba Mateos, On cascading failure models and robustness metrics in power networks, defended on 13/1/2016.
• Leonardo Massai, Stochastic models for heterogeneous opinion dynamics (5,58 MB), defended on 30/3/2015.
• Gianluca Brero, Local Coordination-Global Congestion Network Dynamics, defended on 24/3/2014. 
• Gustav Nilsson, A multi-commodity dynamical model for traffic networks, defended on 19/8/2013.