Research

My research jour­ney began with lar­ge-sca­le decen­tra­li­zed systems and later shif­ted to cen­tra­li­zed gra­ph algo­ri­thms (thanks to my bril­liant Ph.D. stu­den­ts). In recent years, howe­ver, I’ve gra­dual­ly tur­ned my focus toward com­pu­ter scien­ce edu­ca­tion. What began as a side inte­re­st has beco­me a full pro­fes­sio­nal reboot. Entering a new research field means star­ting over in many ways—new que­stions, new col­la­bo­ra­tors, and the hum­bling expe­rien­ce of rebuil­ding cre­di­bi­li­ty from the ground up.

Topic	Period	Main col­la­bo­ra­tors
Computer Science Education	2019–2025	Francesca Fiore, Agnese Del Zozzo, Giorgia Bissoli, Giulia Paludo, Marta Valentini, David Zikovitz
Higher-Order Networks and Hypergraphs	2020–2025	Quintino Francesco Lotito and Federico Battiston
Network repre­sen­ta­tion learning	2016–2019	Zekarias Kefato and Nasrullah Sheikh
Wikipedia Analysis	2017–2019	Cristian Consonni
Distributed Analysis of Large-Scale Graphs	2013–2016	Alessio Guerrieri and Sabeur Aridhi
P2P vs Cloud	2011–2016	Luca Abeni and Hannah Kavalionak
Decentralized onli­ne social networks	2011–2014	Gian Pietro Picco and Giuliano Mega
Autonomic Security	2009–2011	Gian Paolo Jesi and Renato Lo Cigno
Distributed Optimization	2008–2010	Marco Biazzini
Gossip	2003–2014	Mark Jelasity\, Ozalp Babaoglu\, Gian Paolo Jesi
Distributed Swarms	2002–2003	Ozalp Babaoglu and Hein Meling
Group Communication	1998–2003	Ozalp Babaoglu and Hein Meling