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Faculty, doctoral researchers and former members of Ariadne Lab at the University of Catania.

Faculty

4 members

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Vincenza Carchiolo

Full Professor

Works on distributed systems, trust and reputation management in social networks, peer-to-peer systems and e-learning platforms.

Research areasDistributed Systems · Trust and Reputation Networks · Peer-to-Peer Systems

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Marco Grassia

Assistant Professor

Works at the intersection of network science and machine learning: graph neural networks, network dismantling and robustness, and learning-assisted combinatorial optimisation. Holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Catania (2022), with a thesis on tackling NP-hard graph problems through geometric deep learning, and was a visiting researcher at the Center for Complex Network Intelligence, Tsinghua University, in 2025.

Research areasNetwork Science · Graph Neural Networks · Geometric Deep Learning

Michele Malgeri

Associate Professor

Works on trust and reputation systems, social network analysis, recommender systems and IoT security.

Research areasTrust and Reputation Systems · Social Network Analysis · Recommender Systems

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Giuseppe Mangioni

Associate Professor

Works on complex network analysis, multilayer networks, robustness, community detection and network-based machine learning.

Research areasNetwork Science · Geometric Deep Learning · Complex Systems

Doctoral Researchers

3 members

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Rocco Mattia Di Mauro

Doctoral Researcher

PhD student in Computer Engineering at the University of Catania and alumnus of the Scuola Superiore di Catania, currently visiting the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Pietro Liò. Works at the intersection of machine learning and optimisation, explainable AI, and network science, with a particular focus on graph neural networks. Outside research, enjoys meeting new people and cycling.

Research areasComplex Networks · Graph Algorithms · Network Analysis

Mohammad Moradi

Doctoral Researcher

Works on graph neural networks for complex network analysis and community detection.

Research areasComplex Networks · Graph Neural Networks · Deep Learning

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Salvatore Romano

Doctoral Researcher

PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Catania, currently visiting the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Pietro Liò. Works at the intersection of geometric deep learning and computational biology, in particular on graph generation, the evaluation of graph generative models, guidance, drug repurposing, and pMHC immunogenicity.

Research areasGraph Machine Learning · Computational Biology · Graph Generation

Former Members

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Alessandro Longheu

Researcher

Works on complex network analysis, multilayer networks and graph algorithms.

Research areasComplex Networks · Graph Theory · Multilayer Networks