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Research interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
  • Privacy and Data Protection
  • Clustering (Bi-clustering, Co-clustering)
  • Semi-supervised learning
  • Privacy-preserving Data Mining (Anonymization, Differential Privacy)
  • Network Anaysis (Social Networks, Privacy Measures, Social Media)
  • Pattern Mining (Formal Concepts Analysis)
  • Inductive Databases (Constraint-based Clustering)


Research projects (as PI)

  • Social4School 4.0 - AI for Citizenship Education in Schools - Project funded by Fondazione CRT (2022-2024)
  • Dipgate - Differential Private Data Gathering - Project funded by Fondazione CRT (2019-2023)
  • Supporting the enhancement of privacy perception and awareness in online social networks - Project funded by Fondazione CRT (2015-2017)


Research projects (participation)

  • MIMOSA: Ontology-driven query system for the heterogeneous data of a SmArt City - Project funded by Compagnia di San Paolo, through the University of Torino (2015-2017)
  • SMAT F2 - Advanced Land Observation System - Project funded by Regione Piemonte (2013-2015)
  • Anti Money Laundering Polo Innovazione ICT - Regione Piemonte (2012-2013)
  • ANONIMO PRIN 2007 - Italian project (2009-2010)
  • GeoPKDD IST-FET FP6-014915 - European project (2005-2008)
  • IQ IST-FET FP6-516169 - European project (2005-2008)
  • cInQ IST-2000-26469 European project (2001-2004)
  • ACI Masse de Données Bingo - French project (2004-2007)


Scientific activities

  • Member of the Editorial Board of Machine Learning
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Global chair of Euro-Par 2022
  • Local chair of Euro-Par 2018
  • Co-chair of AIMLAI-XKDD 2019 Workshop (co-located with ECML PKDD 2019)
  • Co-chair of PAP 2018 Workshop (co-located with ECML PKDD 2018)
  • Co-chair of DyNaK 2014 Workshop (co-located with ECML PKDD 2014)
  • Co-chair of DyNaK 2010 Workshop (co-located with ECML PKDD 2010)
  • Guest Editor of Mach. Learn. and Intell. Data Anal.
  • Member of the Guest Editorial Board of ECML PKDD since 2014
  • Habitual Program Commitee Member of AAAI, IJCAI, ECML PKDD, SIAM SDM, IDA, DS, ISMIS, DASFAA, ASONAM, ACM CIKM, IEEE ICDM, ACM KDD.
  • Organizing Commitee Member of IEEE ICDM 2008, ECML/PKDD 2004
  • Reviewer for BMC Bioinformatics, Springer VLDB, Springer Data Min. Knowl. Disc., Springer Mach. Learn., Springer Knowl. Inf. Syst., Elsevier Data Knowl. Eng., Elsevier Neurocomputing, Elsevier CMPB, IEEE TKDE, ACM TKDD, IEEE TBME, IEEE SMCB, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TMM, ACM TiiS, ACM CSUR