News

• March 2026   Our preprint is available online: arXiv:2603.10756

• February 2026   I serve as an Area Chair for KDD 2026!

• January 2026   Our paper got accepted to ICLR 2026!

• January 2026   Our paper got accepted to AISTATS 2026!

• January 2026   My affiliation has changed from CENTAI Institute to Intesa Sanpaolo! 

• December 2025   Our preprint is available online: arXiv:2512.00107

• November 2025   I joined the IEEE Task Force on Learning for Graphs!

About

I am currently a Data & AI Researcher at Intesa Sanpaolo, where I continue my work that started at CENTAI Institute in Turin, Italy. Before joining CENTAI, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (2017–2020), and then as a Research Associate at the University of Tokyo, Department of Mathematical Informatics (2020–2022). I received my Doctor of Engineering (equivalent to a Ph.D.) from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2017.

Research

Graphs are a powerful abstraction for representing complex relational data, appearing in a wide range of domains such as social networks, protein–protein interactions, and the structure of the Web. My primary research lies at the intersection of data mining and mathematical optimization, with a focus on graph mining—developing principled and scalable methodologies to extract meaningful and actionable knowledge from networks. In my work, I have proposed novel optimization models in graph mining tailored to real-world challenges, especially in AI for social good, and designed algorithms with provable quality guarantees, grounded in the theory of mathematical optimization. Such theoretical guarantees are not only essential for ensuring algorithmic reliability but also serve as a rigorous foundation for systematically comparing methods, thereby contributing to the conceptual unification and advancement of the field. 

For a complete list of publications, please see the publications page.

Selected Awards and Honors

• Top Reviewers, NeurIPS 2025 (December 2025)

• Outstanding Reviewers (August Cycle), KDD 2025 (August 2025)

• Top Reviewers, ICML 2025 (July 2025)

• Best Reviewers, KDD 2023 (August 2023)

• Best Reviewers, The Web Conference 2023 (May 2023)

• PC Members Honorable Mentions, The Web Conference 2022 (April 2022)

• Research Encourage Award, The Operations Research Society of Japan (August 2020)

• Seiichi Tejima Doctoral Dissertation Award, Tokyo Institute of Technology (February 2018)

• Student Thesis Award,  The Operations Research Society of Japan (August 2014)

• Student Thesis Award,  The Operations Research Society of Japan (September 2012)