Hi! I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTT) at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa,
working on safe and secure artificial intelligence. I received my Ph.D. in
Emerging Digital Technologies (2024), focusing on safety and robustness of AI
for cyber-physical systems and computer vision, under the supervision of
Prof. Giorgio Buttazzo and
Prof. Alessandro Biondi.
In 2023, I visited the Computer Vision Laboratory (CVLab) at
EPFL with
Dr. Mathieu Salzmann,
studying robustness of self-attention and adaptive learning for autonomous driving.
I care about building AI we can trust, merging theory and practice to make models
robust, transparent, and efficient in real deployments, especially when decisions affect safety.
My current research spans adversarial robustness (stress-testing vision and NLP systems against evasion and poisoning attacks),
efficiency under constraints (balancing accuracy, computation, and energy in distributed AI),
explainability and uncertainty (interpreting model behavior and extracting reliable signals about failures),
and out-of-distribution and risk-aware metrics (quantifying failure severity in safety-critical tasks such as autonomous driving).
Latest News!
🌍 Sept 2026 — I’ll be at EMNLP in Budapest from 24–27 Sept, to present our GTPO paper with Aleksandar and Marco!
🌍 August 2026 — I’ll be at IJCAI/ECAI in Bremen from 17–21 August, serving as session chair for the session on adversarial machine learning!
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August 2026 — Our
paper on adversarial learning in test-time scenarios was accepted for publication in
Image and Vision Computing! Great work, Stefano!
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August 2026 — Our
paper on adversarial attacks in split inference was accepted for publication in
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security!
🏆 July 2026 — Obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor (ASN, Second Level) in Computer Science (01/B1) and Computer Engineering (09/H1).
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July 2026 — Our
Concise Thought paper was accepted for publication in
Information Sciences! Great work, Sania and Marco!
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July 2026 — Our
GTPO paper was accepted for publication in
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics! Great work, Aleksander and Marco!
🏆 June 2026 — Promoted to Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTT) at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.
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April 2026 — Our
paper was accepted to
ACL 2026! Great work, Aleksander and Marco!
