About me

I am a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and a Lead Scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI). My research leverages machine learning, data science, and network science to detect, investigate, and mitigate online harms in socio-technical systems. I study malicious behaviors, misinformation, and manipulation dynamics on social media to design algorithms for their detection and identify actionable insights for their mitigation. My study and interest fall into research areas such as AI, computational social science, and human-machine interaction.

Academic experience

2024 – Present

USC Viterbi | University of Southern California (USC)

Research Assistant Professor – USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Lead Scientist – USC Information Sciences Institute

2022 – 2024

Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California, US

Research Scientist in the research group led by Emilio Ferrara

2020 – 2022

Institute for Information Systems and Networking SUPSI, Switzerland

Research scientist in the research group led by Silvia Giordano

2018 – 2020

SUPSI & University of Bern Switzerland

Ph.D. student in the research groups led by Silvia Giordano and Torsten Braun

2015-2018

Polytechnic University of Milan Italy

Master of Science in Telecommunication Engineering

2018

University of New South Wales Australia

Research intern in the research group led by Mahbub Hassan

2009-2015

Polytechnic University of Bari Italy

Bachelor of Science in Telecommunication Engineering

Things I ❤️

Kite-surfing

Food

puglia

the office