| 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, and Gian Paolo Jesi |
| Distributed Swarms | 2002–2003 | Ozalp Babaoglu and Hein Meling |
| Group Communication | 1998–2003 | Ozalp Babaoglu and Hein Meling |