Research Collaborations

• [2023 - Now] Onda spa

• [2023] ADACTA

Activities

• [08/2024 - Now] Special Session Neuro Symbolic AI and Complex Data organizer at the 2026 ESANN conference, which will be held in Bruges, Belgium, from Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 April 2026.

• [03/2025 - Now] Human Inspired Technologies Research Center: Tester for the new High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster.

• [12/2024 - 07/2025] Special Session Design and Theory of Deep Graph Learning organizer at the 2025 IJCNN conference, which will be held in Rome, Italy, from Monday, June 30, to Saturday, July 5, 2025.

• [09/2024 - 25/2025] Special Session Foundation and Generative Models for Graphs organizer at the 2025 ESANN conference, which will be held in Bruges, Belgium, from Wednesday 23 to Friday 25 April 2025.

• [10/2023 - 07/2024] Special Session Deep Learning for Graphs organizer at the 2024 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), which will be held in Yokohama, Japan, June 30 - July 5, 2024.

• [2023] Preparation of the written State Exams test for second-year students of the ITS Academy Meccatronico, Padova.

• [2022] Volunteer at the IEEE WCCI 2022 is the world’s largest technical event on computational intelligence, featuring the three flagship conferences of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) under one roof.

Invited Visitor

• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Software Contributions

• [2024] A Gradio custom object displaying a gallery of 2D molecular structures. [GitHub][pip][DEMO]

• [2024] A Gradio custom object displaying a gallery of interactive 3D molecular structures. [GitHub][pip][DEMO]
  
  

Supervision and Mentoring of Students

Supervisor:

• [2025] Shireesha Pothuganti: MSc in Data Science, University of Padova, Italy.

Co-Supervisor:

• [2025] Zeynep Sila Kaya: MSc in Data Science, University of Padova, Italy.

• [2025] Rana Islek: Erasmus Mundus Student, MSc in Big Data Management & Analytics, University of Padova, Italy.

• [2025] Nila Akbari: MSc in Computer Science, University of Padova, Italy.

• [2024] Chelsie Adelle Renessa Romain: "Unraveling Retrosynthetic Pathways through Template-Free Generative Models", MSc in Data Science, University of Padova, Italy.

• [2024] Marco Ballarini: "A diffusion generative model on atom distances for de novo molecular design", MSc in Data Science, University of Padova, Italy.

• [2022] Mattia Poloni: "A Graph Attention Network Approach to Conversational Question Answering", MSc in Computer Science, University of Padova, Italy.

• [2022] Luca Parolari: "Weakly Supervised Visual-Textual Grounding based on Concept Similarity", MSc in Computer Science, University of Padova, Italy

Support:

• [2024] Lorenzo Caltran: MSc in Data Science, University of Padova, Italy.
  Supervisors: Prof. Antonio Parbonetti, Prof. Camilla Ciappei

• [2023] Qamber Abbas: Ph.D. student in Brain, Mind, and Computer Science, curriculum Computer Science and Innovation for Societal Challenges, University of Padova, Italy.
  Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Sperduti

• [2022] Lorenzo Dei Negri: "From SMILES to graphs: molecule representation in deep learning to predict chemical reactions", MSc in Computer Science, University of Padova, Italy.
  Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Sperduti

Internship Tutor:

• [2025] Zeynep Sila Kaya: MSc in Data Science, University of Padova, Italy.

• [2024] Marco Ballarini: MSc in Data Science, University of Padova, Italy.