Learning from large, complex and structured data: advances in methods and applications

Program

Tuesday June 3, 2025. Aula Magna, Sant’Anna School (sede centrale)

9:00-9:30: Welcome. Nicola Vitiello (Rector of the Sant’Anna School) and Francesca Chiaromonte (L’EMbeDS Scientific Coordinator, SMaRT COnSTRUCT co-PI).

9:30-10:30:Keynote: Mirco Tribastone, IMT Lucca – Chair: Andrea Vandin

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-13:00: Research from AI for Society (PhD-AI.it) – Chair: Riccardo Porcedda

• Riccardo Porcedda, Sant’Anna School. Generating Doppelganger Graphs: Preserving Privacy in Attributed, Weighted, and Directed Graphs.
• Vittoria Caponecchia (with Bernardo D'Agostino), Sant’Anna School. Process Mining for Legal Courts: Visualizing, Analyzing and Comparing Italian Divorce Proceedings.
• Lorenzo Emer, Sant’Anna School. Patent Analysis and Technology Forecasting with LLMs and Network Science.
• Luca Carmisciano, Sant’Anna School. Opportunities and Challenges of Functional Data in Medicine.
• Claudio Mazzi, Sant’Anna School. Machine Learning and Explainable AI for Type-2 Diabetes Management.

13:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-16:00: Research from L’EMbeDS – Chair: Matteo Coronese

• Matteo Coronese, Sant’Anna School. Inferring Beliefs on Climate Risk from a Data-driven Agent-based Model of the Housing Market.
• Giulia Schneider, Sant’Anna School. Corporate Digital Responsibility: From Regulation of Responsible AI to Governance.
• Roberto Molinari, Auburn University. Fiducial Matching: Differentially Private Inference for Categorical Data.
• Valentina Lorenzoni, Sant’Anna School. Exploring the Truth about Age and Ageing.

16:00-16:30: Coffee break

16:30-18:30: The frontiers of Statistics – Chair: Lorenzo Testa

• Lorenzo Testa, Carnegie Mellon University. Semi-supervised Learning under Distribution Shift and Decaying Overlap.
• Ana Kenney, UC Irvine. Distilling Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Stable Subgroup Estimation in Causal Inference.
• Luca Insolia, University of Geneva. Towards Optimal Adjustments for Multivariate Average Equivalence Testing.
• Jacopo Di Iorio, Emory University. Discovering Functional Motifs using funBIalign.
• Tobia Boschi, IBM Research Dublin. Functional Graph Convolutional Networks: A Unified Multi-task and Multi-modal Learning Framework.

Wednesday June 4, 2025. Aula Magna, Sant’Anna School (sede centrale)

9:00-10:00: Keynote: Paolo Ferragina, Sant’Anna School – Learning for Data Structure Design

10:00-10:30: Coffee break

10:30-12:30: Research from SMaRT COnSTRUCT – Chair: Simone Tonini

• Simone Tonini, Sant’Anna School. Fast, Robust and Accurate Anomaly Detection for Multivariate Time Series.
• Saverio Barabuffi, Sant’Anna School. Inter-regional Public Knowledge Spillovers and Patenting Performance: Evidence from US Metropolitan Statistical Areas through NLP Techniques.
• Irina Carnat, Sant’Anna School (online). Regulating Generative AI: What's the Purpose?
• Mario Martinoli, Sant’Anna School. Estimation of DSGE Models by non-Gaussian Vector Autoregressions.
• Michele Zema, Scuola Normale Superiore. Growing Through Links: evolution and impact of Production Networks in the long-run.

12:30-13:30: Lunch

13:30-14:30: Keynote: Phil Shapira, University of Manchester & Giorgia Tech – Chair: Giulio Ferrigno
Does Artificial Intelligence Advance Science?

14:30-16:30: The frontiers of Computer Science – Chair: Andrea Vandin

• Emilio Incerto, IMT Lucca. Learning Stochastic Processes with Variable-length Markov Chains.
• Giuseppe Squillace, IMT Lucca. Efficient Network Embedding by Approximate Equitable Partitions.
• Francesco Tosoni, University of Pisa. Toward Greener Matrix Operations by Lossless Compressed Formats.
• Lorenzo Bellomo, University of Pisa. Dealing with Big Data: A Computation-Friendly Compressed Graph Database.

16:30-17:00:Coffee break

17:00-18:00: Keynote: Guido Cervone, Penn State University (online) – Chair: Francesca Chiaromonte
The AI/ML Revolution and the Acceleration of Scientific Discovery in Earth Science.

18:00-18:30: Concluding remarks. Francesca Chiaromonte (L’EMbeDS Scientific Coordinator, SMaRT COnSTRUCT co-PI) and Andrea Vandin (SMaRT COnSTRUCT co-PI).