About me

I am a scientific project officier at the European Center for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT), part of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra (VA), Italy.

In my role, I contribute scientific and technical expertise in support of policies in the context of online platforms Digital Services Act (DSA) and on artificial intelligence AI-Act.

Previously I worked as Advanced Research Scientist at Eurecat - Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya in Barcelona, as part of the Big Data & Data Science unit. While I was there I have served as Principal Investigator for the MoTiV project and as Work Package leader for the Ride2Rail project.

I have earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2019 from the University of Trento (Trento, Italy) under the guidance of my advisors Alberto Montresor and Yannis Velegrakis. My Ph.D. thesis was titled: “The Dao of Wikipedia - Extracting Knowledge from the Structure of Wikilinks”. My Ph.D. program has been partially funded by SpazioDati s.r.l..

My research encompasses the fields of computational social science, data mining, and knowledge extraction, with a particular focus on graphs. I am as well interested in graph algorithms, machine learning, and time-evolving graphs.

I am a Wikipedian since 2007, and a member of Wikimedia Italia the local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, where I have served as member of the board from 2010 to 2017.

I am an advocate for free software and open knowledge.