People

MARTINA ALUTTO
PhD student

ALEXIA AMBROGIO
PhD student

MARIA GIULIA BALLATORE
Research Assistant

FRANCESCA MARIA CERAGIOLI
Associate Professor

LEONARDO CIANFANELLI
Research Assistant

GIACOMO COMO
Full Professor

FABIO FAGNANI
Full Professor

LUISA MAZZI
Associate Professor

SEBASTIANO MESSINA
PhD student

ROBERTA RAINERI
PhD student

Former members

Past Postdocs

• Mark Jeeninga, 2021-2023 now Post-Doc Fellow at Lund University
• Stephane Durand, 2019-2022, now Researcher at INRIA  Sophia Antipolis
• Costanza Catalano, 2019-2020, now Researcher at Centro di Studi Banca d'Italia
• Rosario Maggistro, 2017-2018, now Assistant Professor at Università di Trieste
• Enrico Lovisari, 2012-2014, now Software Developer at Zenseact

Past PhD students

• Martina Vanelli, Game-Theoretic Models of Auctions in Electricity Markets, defended in 2024, now Post-Doc Fellow at Leuven University
• Laura Arditti, Game theoretic models of high order network interactions (11.41 MB) , defended in 2023, now Financial Crime Prevention Data Analytics Officer at UBS 
• Luca Damonte, Targeting interventions on Network Systems (9.97 MB) , defended in 2023, now Post-Doc Fellow at Luiss University
• Leonardo Massai, Equilibria and Systemic Risk in Saturated Networks (10.20 MB), defended in 2022, now Research Assistant at EPFL
• Leonardo Cianfanelli, Stability and network design of heterogeneous transportation systems (1.14 MB), defended in 2022, now Research Assistant at Politecnico di Torino
• Gustav Nilsson, On Robust Distributed Control of Transportation Networks, defended in 2019, now Scientist at EPFL 
• Lorenzo Zino, Diffusion Processes on Networks, defended in 2018, now Research Assistant at Politecnico di Torino
• Barbara Franci, Network Cooperative Models (1.94 MB), defended in 2018, now Postdoctoral Fellow at Delft University of Technology
• 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, now Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen   
• 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 Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino 
• Paolo Frasca, Distributed optimization with communication constraints, defended in 2009, now Researcher at CNRS, Grenoble
• Federica Garin, Generalized serial turbo coding ensembles: analysis and design, defended in 2008, now Researcher at INRIA, Grenoble

Past Master Thesis Students

• Sergio Augusto Angelini, Game theoretical models for the day ahead electricity market, defended on 3/10/23
• 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.