Research Activities

Research Funding

• 2023-24 Padua-St Andrews Joint Seed Funding scheme (Principal co-investigator). Project title: "Next Generation Path Planning Systems for Autonomous Vehicles". The project was funded with 5860 €

• 2023 INdAM/GNCS Travel funding for Young Researchers. The project was funded with 800 €

Talks

Presentations at International Conferences and Workshops

• Exploring Mixed-Grid Environments for Drone-Based Last-Mile Logistics Optimization. UAV-IoT@MASS'23. Toronto, Canada. September 2023 [slides]

• (Eternal) Vertex Cover Number of Infinite and Finite Grid Graphs. ICTCS'23. Palermo, Italy. September 2023 [slides]

• Drone-Truck Cooperated Delivery Under Time Varying Dynamics. ApPLIED@PODC'22. Salerno, Italy. July 2022 [slides]

• Greedy Algorithms for Scheduling Package Delivery with Multiple Drones. ICDCN'22. Online conference. January 2022 [slides]

• A Realistic Model to support Rescue Operations after an Earthquake. Q2SWinet@MSWiM'20. Online conference. November 2020 [slides]

• A Realistic Model to support Rescue Operations after an Earthquake. ICTCS'20. Online conference. September 2020 [slides]

• Exploiting Social Influence to Control Elections Based on Scoring Rules. MAPLE'19. Milano, Italy. September 2019 [slides]

• Models and Algorithms for Election Control Through Influence Maximization. ICTCS'19. Como, Italy. September 2019 [slides]

• Exploiting Social Influence to Control Elections Based on Scoring Rules. IJCAI'19. Macau, China. August 2019 [slides]

• Balancing spreads of influence in a social network. HALG'19. Copenhagen, Denmark. June 2019 [slides]

• On the Maximum Connectivity Improvement problem. ALGOSENSORS'18. Helsinki, Finland. August 2018 [slides]

• Border Effects on Connectivity for Randomly Oriented Directional Antenna Networks. Med-Hoc-Net'18. Capri, Italy. June 2018 [slides]

Seminars

• UAV Algorithms and Applications: last-mile package delivery. A lecture I gave in the "Smart Living in the Era of IoT, AI, Data Science and Cybersecurity'' Ph.D. course at the University of Pisa, Italy. 2022 [slides]

• Truck-Drone cooperation for last mile deliveries: An algorithmic approach. A lecture I gave in the Algorithms and Data Structures class at the University of Perugia, Italy. March 2022 [slides]

• Optimal and Approximation Algorithms for Multiple Drone-Delivery Scheduling Problem. Seminar at the Missouri University of S&T, USA. February 2022 [slides]

• Truck-Drone cooperation for last mile deliveries: A graph theory approach. A lecture I gave in the Applied Graph Theory class at the Missouri University of S&T. March 2021 [slides]

• UAVs in Cyber-Physical Applications. A lecture I gave in the Cyber-Physical Systems class at the Missouri University of S&T. March 2021 [slides]

• A Realistic Model to support Rescue Operations after an Earthquake. Seminar (via ZOOM) at Sapienza University of Rome. December 2020 [slides]

• Election Control through Social Influence with Unknown Preferences. Seminar (via ZOOM) at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA. July 2020 [slides]

• Exploiting Social Influence to Control Opinions in Social Networks. Seminar at University of Perugia. Italy. December 2019 [slides]

Mentoring Activity 

Bachelor's Theses

• (2018) Sistema di consegna con droni in un ambiente ibrido, Luca Bartoli, Computer Science, University of Perugia, Italy

Visiting Periods

• March 2018: University of Paris 7, Paris, France

  • Invitedy by Vlady Ravelomanana

Ph.D. Schools

• 24-28 May 2021: International School-conference in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Complexity. Online

• 14-18 May 2018: Complex networks: theory, methods, and applications (4th edition), Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Como, Italy

• 18-20 December 2017: Distributed Models, MapReduce and Large Scale Algorithms (Ph.D. minicourse by Silvio Lattanzi), Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Academic Service

Organizational Responsibilities

• General Co-Chair at the International Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in Internet of Things (Wi-DroIT) 2023-24

• Co-Organizer of the special session "Sensing and Data Platforms: what is ahead of us" at the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry (MetroAgriFor) 2023-24

• Co-Organizer of the special track "Algorithmic Solutions for Drone- and Robot-based Network" at the 49th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 2024

• General Co-Chair at the International Workshop on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and IoT (UAV-IoT) 2024

• Publicity Chair at the International Workshop on Cost-effective Algorithms for Robots and Drones In Novel AppLications (CARDINAL) 2023

• Publicity Chair at the International Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in Internet of Things (Wi-DroIT) 2021-22

• Publicity Chair at the 12th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC) 2021

• Student Volunteer at the 28th International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2019

• Student Volunteer at the 17th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA) 2018

Program Committee:

• International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2021-24

• SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2024

• ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery \& Data Mining (KDD) 2022-24

• International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) 2024

• International Workshop on Networking Women in Distributed Computing and Networks (NWDCN) 2022-24

• International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Network Systems (CINS) 2024

• International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2021-23

• International Conference On Distributed Computing And Networking (ICDCN) 2023

• International Workshop on Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles and IoT (UAV-IoT) 2023

• Symposium on Algorithmics of Wireless Networks (ALGOSENSORS) 2022 

• International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services (EmeRTeS) 2022

• International Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in Internet of Things (Wi-DroIT) 2021-22

• International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM) 2019-22

• International Conference on Networks and Security (NSEC) 2021

• International Conference on Frontiers of Sensors Technologies (ICFST) 2020-21 

Reviewing for international journals

• Ad Hoc Networks

• Applied Sciences, MDPI

• Computer Networks

• Expert System with Applications (ESWA)

• Heliyon

• IEEE Access

• Future Generation Computer Systems

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)

• Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA)

• Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS)

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems

• Operations Research and Decisions

• Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA)

• Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)

• Research in Transportation Economics

• Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

• Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS)

• Transactions on Networking (TNET)

• Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

Conference (Sub)Reviewer

SMARTCOMP Posters'24; IWOCA'24; CALDAM'23; WALCOM'23; INFOCOM'21-22; ICNP'21; SAGT'21; MFCS'21; DCOSS'21; WoWMoM'21; MLIS'20; AAMAS'20; AAAI'20; DSAA'19; IJCAI'19; MOBIWAC'18; ICTCS'18; ICDCN'18