About
Hi, I’m Federico 👋, a research scientist at the CENTAI Institute in Torino. I hold a Ph.D. in Data Science from Sapienza University of Rome.
My work broadly focuses on understanding and modeling social behavior in digital environments, with recent projects exploring the intersection of reinforcement learning, language models, and online dynamics.
Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in collaborating ✉️.
Latest News
July 2025
- 🎉 Paper accepted at EPJ Data Science: Measuring how computer science research translates into innovation and development.
May 2025
- 🎓 Earned my Ph.D. in Data Science (cum laude) from Sapienza University of Rome.
- 🎉 Paper accepted at KDD 2025: Engagement-Driven Content Generation with LLMs.
April 2025
- 🎉 Paper accepted at IJCAI 2025: Minimizing Polarization and Disagreement in the Friedkin-Johnsen Model with Unknown Innate Opinions. See you in Montreal!
- 🎓 Presented at WWW 2025 in Sydney.
March 2025
- 🎉 New paper accepted at TIST.
- 🎓 Completed reviews for KDD 2025.
February 2025
- 📄 New Preprint: Minimizing Polarization and Disagreement in the Friedkin-Johnsen Model with Unknown Innate Opinions. Read it here.
- 📄 New Preprint: On the Inference of Sociodemographics on Reddit. Check it out here.
January 2025
- 🎉 Accepted at The Web Conf 2025! Our paper Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election has been accepted! Read the preprint here.
December 2024
- 🎓 I'm happy to be reviewing papers for The Web Conference 2025.
- 📄 New Preprint: We've just published a preprint exploring how large language models can generate content optimized for user engagement using "social" reinforcement learning and opinion dynamics. Check it out here.