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Giancarlo Ruffo
Giancarlo Ruffo

Giancarlo Ruffo, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of the University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at Schools of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University. His research interests fall between the multidisciplinary research area of data science, with particular attention to complex network analysis problems and applications. He investigated research issues on web and data miningrecommendation systems, social mediadistributed applicationspeer-to-peer systemssecurity, and micro-payment systems. He is the principal investigator of ARCS group, and he is leading several ongoing projects. He has published about 80 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences.


Rossano Schifanella
Rossano Schifanella

Rossano Schifanella, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Torino. His research mainly focuses on data-driven analysis of the dynamics of complex systems to model social media. He is also interested in data visualizationcrowdsourcing approaches and digital games to generate high-quality large-scale datasets, mobile computingpeer-to-peer systems, and social information processing. He one of the most productive member of the group, coordinating also his own team of young researchers.



Mirko Lai
Mirko Lai

Mirko LaiPhD graduate and Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Torino. He started his postgraduate studies after a period as a short term research assistant in our group. His bachelor thesis was on “A method of use for Wearable Sensor Network”, and his master one was on “tools and methodologies for data journalism”. His skills and interests include social media analysis, natural language processing, stance detection, data visualization3D computer graphics,  3D modeling and virtual reality. His thesis has been supervised in co-tutelle by Prof. Giancarlo Ruffo (Univ. of Turin) and Prof. Paolo Rosso (Universidad de Valencia)


Senior researchers


Post-doc


Alfonso Semeraro

Alfonso Semeraro, is a post doctoral researcher (assegnista di ricerca) and a PhD graduate at the Department of Computer Science of Università degli Studi di Torino. After he received his master degree at Università degli Studi di Torino with a thesis on financial networks, he continued his work on the structure and dynamics of a micro-economic network during his employment as short term researcher. He is currently working on the spreading of misinformation across different websites and social media platforms. His research interests include complex networksdata mining and social media analysis.



Mirko Lai
Salvatore Vilella

Salvatore Vilella is a post doctoral researcher (assegnista di ricerca) and a PhD graduate at the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Torino, and a Junior Researcher at ISI Foundation. He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Physics at Università del Salento, and his Master Degree in Physics of Complex Systems at Università degli Studi di Torino. His research interests and skills include data-driven analysis and modeling of complex systems, complex networks, data mining and data analytics


Junior researchers


PhD students


Arthur Capozzi

Arthur Capozzi, former junior researcher at the ISI Foundation, is currently PhD student at the Department of Computer Science of Università degli Studi di Torino. After he received his master degree at Università degli Studi di Torino with a thesis on developing a data visualization dashboard to analyze financial networks, he worked for more than an year on Controlodio, a project born for mapping and studying the spreading of hate speech in social media in Italy. Thanks to a research scholarship of Fondazione CRT, he joined a on objective data and citizen perception on quality of life in the city of Torino. His skills and interests include data visualization, NLP, social media analysis, 3D computer graphics and 3D modeling.



Alessandra Urbinati

Alessandra Urbinati, former junior researcher at the ISI Foundation, is currently PhD student at the Department of Computer Science of Università degli Studi di Torino. She obtained her Bachelor Degree in Mathematical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, and his Master Degree in Stochastics and Data Science at University of Torino. After the Master Degree she worked as a short term researcher at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Torino. Her research interests include complex networks, machine learning and data analytics.



Fellows, and external collaborators


Romain Boulet
Romain Boulet

Romain Boulet, Ph.D, is Maître de conférences at iaelyon School of Management, and he was visiting us in 2020. He obtained his PhD in mathematics in 2008 at the university of Toulouse and he is, since 2012, associate professor in mathematics in the iaelyon, school of management (Lyon University); he belongs to Magellan research lab. His research areas include graph theory (especially algebraic graph theory) and networks analysis with a particular interest on interdisciplinary collaborations. He mainly worked on the analysis of legal networks and he organized workshops on complexity and public policies. He teaches algebra (matrix calculus and applications), statistics and data mining at iae lyon. Since 2015 he is at the head of the teaching and research pole in mathematics of the iaelyon and since 2018 he is at the head of the undergraduate studies of the iaelyon.
His visit to our department in Turin has been ‘virtual’ because of the COVID-19 emergency, but he taught a bunch of amazing lectures on complex network analysis to our master’s student in March 2020.


Johan Bollen

Johan Bollen, Ph. D., s a Full Professor of informatics at Indiana University . He was formerly a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2009, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2002 to 2005. He obtained his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2001. He has published more than 75 articles on computational social science, social complexity, health, well-being, machine learning, and informetrics. His research has been funded by the NSF, DARPA, IARPA, EDA, NASA, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Johan lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife and daughter. In his free time he enjoys P90x and DJing in the local Bloomington clubs as DJ Angst (with his colleague E-trash aka Luis Rocha).
He visited us in 2014, and when we proudly hosted him during his sabbatical year.


Alessandro Flammini
Alessandro Flammini

Alessandro Flammini, is a Full Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering adjunct associate professor in Physics,  He is affiliated with Center for Complex Systems and Networks Research and the Indiana University Network Science Institute. His research interests are in complex networks and computational social science.
He visited us more than once, teaching twice our course on Complex Networks, focusing on dynamical processes.




Mario Giacobini

Mario Giacobini, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Torino, where he leads the Computational Epidemiology Group and he is ARC2S fellow. His research interests focus on artificial life, both as bio-inspired computational techniques and as modeling of biological phenomena principally using concepts and instruments of network science. Part of Mario Giacobini’s research activity is carried out at the Molecular Biotechnolgy Center of the University of Torino, where he is the principal investigator of the Complex Systems Unit. He has an Erdos number of 3.




Previous Members and Fellows


Luca Aiello

Luca Maria Aiello, Associate Professsor at IT University of Copenhagen, received his received their Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Doctoral School of Sciences and Innovative Technologies, Computer Science Programme, University of Turin. His dissertation’s title was “Analysis, prediction and privacy-aware design of social media and online search”. During his Ph.D. training, he has been a visiting scholar at CNetS of Indiana University and he has collaborated with Yahoo! Labs California in a project on user profiling. After his Ph.D. graduation he moved to the Social Media Engagement team, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, as a research scientist, and then to Bell Labs, London.


Narges Azizifard

Narges AzizifardPhD graduate at the Department of Computer Science of Università degli Studi di Torino, and currently postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. She obtained her Master Degree in computer engineering (software) at Azad University of Qazvin (Iran). Her thesis was about “Clustering Social Networks Based on Optimization Algorithms”. Her research interests are data analysis, data mining, machine learning and social networks.




Alessandro Basso

Alessandro Basso, PhD, is currently Software Engineer at Emporos Systems Corporation, Charlotte (NC, USA). He has been Research Assistant in our department, collaborating with us on recommendation systems issues, until 2010.






Martina Deplano

Martina Deplano, PhD, started her PhD program with our group in 2011, after a master degree in “Communication in the Information Society”. Her research interests are User Experience, Computational Social Science, Data Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design. Currently Martina is contributing to save the world as a GreenPeace activist.





Edoardo Galimberti
Edoardo Galimberti

Edoardo Galimberti Ph.D., completed his PhD program at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin. In that period he was also a member of the Algorithmic Data Analytics group at ISI Foundation, led by Dr. Francesco Bonchi. He obtained both Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Engineering of Computing Systems from Politecnico di Milano. He carried out his Master’s thesis at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona, where he investigated efficient and scalable methods for mining large social graphs. His research interests include heterogeneous and semantic graphs, social media and social network analysis, and graph theory. Currently Edoardo is a data scientist at Allianz.


Marco Milanesio

Marco Milanesio, PhD, after graduation moved to Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France, to start his career as  Research Engineer. He received his PhD in 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Ruffo, and he has been Research Assistant in our group until 2011. In 2017 he joined the Center of Modeling, Simulation and Interactions, Université Côte d’Azur.






André Panisson

André Panisson received a MSc in Computer Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) in 2007, under the supervision of Lisandro Granville. He received his received their Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Doctoral School of Sciences and Innovative Technologies, Computer Science Programme, University of Turin. His dissertation’s title was “Selective Information Dissemination in Mobile Computing”. During his Ph.D. training, he received also a Google Summer of Code grant  to develop a plug-in for the Gephi network analysis tool. He is currently Researcher Leader at the Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) in Turin, Italy.



Salvatore Spoto

Salvatore Spoto was born in Andria, Itlay in 1976. He received his Laurea degree in Computer Science from the University of Catania, in 2007, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Torino in 2011.
He joined our group for a short period to help us with his skills on  computer-graphicscomputer-visionpeer-to-peer systems and communication networks.





Emilio Sulis

Emilio Sulis got his PhD at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin under the supervision of Prof. Giancarlo Ruffo. He graduated in Sociology in 2002 and then worked in social research, teaching and planning with his company QRS. He developed a computational social simulation based on real data and demographic forecasts, thanks to a scholarship Lagrange – CRT. His main research interests are social network analysis and agent based social simulations



Marcella Tambuscio
Marcella Tambuscio

Marcella Tambuscio, currently post-doc researcher at Austrian Center for Digital Humanities, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, is a PhD graduate at the University of Torino. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and her Master degree in Computer Science from University of Pisa. In 2012 she prepared her Master thesis as internship at BCAM  (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics) of Bilbao, studying efficiency measures of traffic allocation in network congestion games. Her research interests are Game Theory, Data Mining and Social Network Analysis.


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