Assistant Professor - Politecnico di Torino
LATEST NEWS
PAPER IN EJC
November 2024
Our paper entitled Identification of piecewise constant parameters in nonlinear models (joint work with G.C. Calafiore and G. Fracastoro) has been published online in the European Journal of Control
RECENT NEWS
PUBLICATION
November 2024
Our paper entitled Identification of piecewise constant parameters in nonlinear models (joint work with G.C. Calafiore and G. Fracastoro) has been published online in the European Journal of Control
EDITORIAL BOARD
November 2024
Lorenzo has joined the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports
PUBLICATION
October 2024
Our paper entitled Optimal Control of Endemic Epidemic Diseases With Behavioral Response, with F. Parino and A. Rizzo, has been published in the IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems
PRESENTATION
October 2024
I will participate to the 13th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (ComplexNetworks 2024), where I will give an oral presentation entitled Structure and Shock Resistance in Financial Networks: A Numerical Study (joint work with A. Proskurnikov, G. Fracastoro and G. C. Calafiore)
AWARD
September 2024
I have been awarded with the Best Young Author Journal Paper Award 2024 by the IEEE CSS Italy Chapter for my work entitled Coevolutionary Dynamics of Actions and Opinions in Social Networks (with H. Dehghani, M. Ye, Z. Chen, and M. Cao)
OLDER NEWS...
PRESENTATION
September 2024
Our paper, entitled An opinion dynamics model for collective risk perception (joint work with D. Villone, F. Giardini, and M. Cao) has been presented at Automatica.it, held in Bolzano (September 11-13)
PRESENTATIONS
July 2024
Our papers On a Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible Epidemic Model with Reactive Behavioral Response on Higher-Order Temporal Networks (with A. Rizzo), Generalized Nash equilibrium problems under partial-decision information with biased agents (with B. Franci and F. Fabiani), and On Controlling a Coevolutionary Model of Actions and Opinions (with R. Raineri, M. Ye, G. Como, and F. Fagnani) have been accepted for presentation at the IEEE CDC 2024, the latter within a session on Analysis and Control of Network Dynamics in the Social and Life Sciences (organized with M. Ye, M. Cao, and N. Leonard)
WORKSHOP
July 2024
The workshop Complex Socio-Technical Networked Dynamics (which I organized with A. Fontan, K.H. Johansson, P.U. Lima, S. Pequito, and A. Rizzo) will be held in Milan before the IEEE CDC, on Dec 15, 2024
PRESENTATION
June 2024
Lorenzo attended the 2024 European Control Conference where he presented the paper entitled On Modeling Collective Risk Perception via Opinion Dynamics (joint work with D. Vilone, F. Giardini, and M. Cao)
PUBLICATION
June 2024
Our paper entitled Social Tipping Games: Experimental Paradigms for Studying Consumer Movements (joint work with Z. Mlakar, J.W. Bolderdijk, H. Risselada, B.M. Fennis, M. Ye, and M. Cao) has been published online in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research
VISIT
June 2024
Lorenzo was invited by prof. Ming Cao to visit the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), where he gave a seminar entitled On modeling and controlling complex social systems and he served as a committee member in Dr. K. Frieswijk's PhD Defence
PUBLICATION
June 2024
Our paper entitled On Modeling Collective Risk Perception via Opinion Dynamics (joint work with D. Vilone, F. Giardini, and M. Cao) has been published in the European Journal of Control
PRESENTATION
May 2024
F. Giardini has presented our work entitled Homophily in opinion networks affectscollective risk perception inheterogeneous populations (joint work with D. Vilone and M. Cao) at ISCRAM 2024
PUBLICATION
May 2024
Our paper entitled Modeling and analyzing competitive epidemic diseases with partial and waning virus-specific and cross-immunity (with M. Ye and B.D.O. Anderson) has been published in the IFAC Journal of Systems and Control
AWARD
Lorenzo has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member
May 2024
PRESENTATION
April 2024
Our work entitled On the Influence of Network Structure on the Resilience and Losses of Financial Systems (with G. Fracastoro, A. Proskurnikov, G.C. Calafiore) has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design​, which will be held in Budapest (Hungary) in July 2024
AWARD
April 2024
Lorenzo has been awarded by the IEEE Communications Society for serving as Excellent Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Network Science & Engineering in 2023
PUBLICATION
April 2024
Our paper entitled Effect of Network Structure and Committed Minority Placement in Promoting Social Diffusion (with T. Gao and M. Ye) has been published in the current issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
AWARD
March 2024
Our paper entitled Predicting the Effects of Waning Vaccine Immunity Against COVID-19 through High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling has been recognized as a top downloaded article during its first 12 months of publication in Advanced Theory and Simulations
COURSE
February - March 2024
Lorenzo will teach the course Industrial Automation Laboratory at the Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) from February 26 to March 16
PRESENTATION
February 2024
Lorenzo gave an invited online seminar entitled Using mathematics to help unlock social diffusion at the IEEE CSS Society Chapter at Kharagpur (India) on February 6
PUBLICATIONS
January 2024
Our works entiteld On Adaptive-Gain Control of Replicator Dynamics in Population Games (with M. Ye, A. Rizzo, and G. Calafiore) and A Pontryagin-Based Game-Theoretic Approach for Robust Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (with M. Pagone and C. Novara) have been published in the Proceedings of the 2023 62nd IEEE CDC
PRESENTATION
January 2024
Lorenzo gave an invited seminar entitled How mathematical modeling can help unlock social diffusion at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands on January 24, 2024
PUBLICATION
January 2024
Our paper entitled Overcoming inaction: An agent-based modelling study of social interventions that promote systematic pro-environmental change (with T. Hoffmann, M. Ye, M. Cao, W. Rauws, and J. W. Bolderdijk) has been published in the Journal of Envoronmental Psychology
2023
EDITORIAL BOARD
December 2023
Lorenzo has joined the Editorial Board of the International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing
PRESENTATIONS
December 2023
Our works on adaptive control for evolutionary dynamics (with M. Ye, A. Rizzo, and G. Calafiore) and robust control (with M. Pagone and C. Novara) have been presented at the IEEE CDC 2023. The former was presented in the invited session on Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Complex Systems (which I organized with M. Ye, M. Cao, and N. Leonard)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Lorenzo has joined the International Program Committee of 10th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT2024)
December 2023
COLLABORATION
December 2023
We have started contributing to Influcast, the collective forecasting effort for seasonal flu led by Fondazione ISI, and to RespiCast, the European Respiratory Diseases Forecasting Hub.
PUBLICATIONS
November 2023
Our papers entitled On incentivizing innovation diffusion in a network of coordinating agents (with M. Ye), Modeling the Co-evolution of Climate Impact and Population Behavior: A Mean-Field Analysis (with K. Frieswijk, S. Morse, and M. Cao), and On a bi-virus epidemic model with partial and waning immunity (with M. Ye and B. Anderson) have been published in the Proceedings of the 2023 IFAC World Congress
NEW POSITION
October 2023
Lorenzo has started a new appointment as Senior Assistant Professor (RTDb) with  the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
WORKSHOP
September 2023
Lorenzo attended the ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium on Network Dynamics and Control​, held in Linkoping (Sep 19-22, 2023)
PRESENTATIONS
September 2023
Lorenzo attended the workshop Automatica.it, held in Catania, 6-8 September 2023. I presented the work On Adaptive-Gain Control for the Replicator Equation (with M. Ye, G. Calafiore, and A. Rizzo) and M. Pagone presented our joint work A Minmax Robust MPC based on Pontryagin differential game approach (with C. Novara)
PUBLICATION
August 2023
Our paper entitled Effect of Network Structure and Committed Minority Placement in Promoting Social Diffusion (with T. Gao and M. Ye) has been published online in the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
EDITORIAL BOARD
August 2023
Lorenzo has joined the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and of the European Control Association (EUCA)
PRESENTATION
July 2023
Lorenzo gave a presentation entitled How mathematics can help unlock social diffusion at the Centre for Optimisation and Decision Science, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
VISITING
July 2023
Lorenzo has joined Curtin University (Perth, Australia) as a Visiting Researcher, from July 23 to September 4
PRESENTATIONS
July 2023
Lorenzo presented his works entitled On incentivizing innovation diffusion in a network of coordinating agents (with M. Ye) and Modeling the Co-evolution of Climate Impact and Population Behavior: A Mean-Field Analysis (with K. Frieswijk, S. Morse, and M. Cao) at the 2023 IFAC World Congress. Moreover, M. Ye presented our work On a bi-virus epidemic model with partial and waning immunity (joint work with B. Anderson)
PUBLICATION
June 2023
Our paper entitled Coevolutionary Dynamics of Actions and Opinions in Social Networks (with H. Dehghani Aghbolagh, M. Ye, Z. Chen, and M. Cao) has been published online in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
PUBLICATION
June 2023
Our chapter entitled Network Science and Automation (with B. Barzel and A. Rizzo) has been published in the 2nd edition of the Springer Handbook of Automation (edited by S.Y. Nof)
PUBLICATION
June 2023
Our chapter entitled Social Diffusion Dynamics in Cyber–Physical–Human Systems (with M. Cao) has been published in the book Cyber–Physical–Human Systems: Fundamentals and Applications (edited by A. Annaswamy, P. Khargonekar, F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, and S.K. Spurgeon)
PRESENTATION
June 2023
Lorenzo presented the work entitled The impact of deniers on epidemics: A temporal network model (with A. Rizzo and M. Porfiri) at the 2023 American Control Conference
PRESENTATION
May 2023
Lorenzo was invited to participate and present his work at the workshop From behaviors and codes to intelligent network systems (on the occasion of Fabio Fagnani's and Sandro Zampieri's 60th birthday).
PUBLICATION
May 2023
Our paper entitled A Polarized Temporal Network Model to Study the Spread of Recurrent Epidemic Diseases in a Partially Vaccinated Population (with K. Frieswijk and M. Cao) has been published online in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
PRESENTATION
April 2023
Lorenzo gave a presentation as an invited speaker at the Agricola Mini Symposium on Preparing for the next crisis: Modeling and simulation for disaster risk reduction, held at Groningen University on April 4, 2023
AWARD
March 2023
Our papers entitled A model predictive control approach to optimally devise a two-dose vaccination rollout: A case study on COVID-19 in Italy and A time-varying network model for sexually transmitted infections accounting for behavior and control actions have been recognized as top downloaded articles during its first 12 months of publication in the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
AWARD
March 2023
Our paper entitled High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling of COVID-19 Spreading in a Small Town has been recognized as a top downloaded article during its first 12 months of publication in Advanced Theory and Simulations
POSTER
March 2023
Our work entitled On the role of network topology and committed minority in facilitating social diffusion (with T. Gao and M. Ye) has been accepted for a poster presentation at NetSci 2023
AWARD
February 2023
Our paper entitled High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling of COVID-19 Spreading in a Small Town has been recognized as a top cited paper Advanced Theory and Simulations in years 2021-2022
AWARD
February 2023
Our paper entitled Modelling and predicting the effect of social distancing and travel restrictions on COVID-19 spreading (with F. Parino, M. Porfiri, and A. Rizzo) has been awarded as one of the top five most highly cited articles in Journal of the Royal Society Interface in 2021
PUBLICATION
January 2023
Our work entitled Fast Spread in Controlled Evolutionary Dynamics (with G. Como and F. Fagnani) has been published online in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
COVER
January 2023
Our paper with A. Truszkowska, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri entitled Exploring a COVID-19 Endemic Scenario: High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling of Multiple Variants has made the cover of the January 2023 issue of Advanced Theory and Simulations.
2022
AWARD
December 2022
Lorenzo has been awarded by the IEEE Communications Society for serving as Excellent Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Network Science & Engineering in 2022
PUBLICATION
November 2022
Our paper entitled Exploring a COVID-19 endemic scenario: high-resolution agent-based modeling of multiple variants (with A. Truszkowska, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri) has been published in Advanced Theory and Simulations.
PUBLICATION
November 2022
Our work entitled The impact of deniers on epidemics: A temporal network mode (with A. Rizzo and M. Porfiri) has been published online in the IEEE Control Systems Letters
PUBLICATION
November 2022
Our work entitled Facilitating innovation diffusion in social networks using dynamic norms (with M. Ye and M. Cao) has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science journal PNAS Nexus
NEW POSITION
October 2022
From October 1, Lorenzo has joined the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, as a Junior Assistant Professor
PUBLICATION
September 2022
Our work entitled Activity-driven network modeling and control of the spread of two concurrent epidemic strains (with D.A. Burbano Lombana, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.-P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, M. Porfiri) has been published in Applied Network Science
PRESENTATION
September 2022
Our work entitled On evolutionary population games on community networks with dynamic densities (with A. Govaert and E. Tegling) has been presented at the 25th International Symposium onMathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
PRESENTATION
September 2022
Our works entitled Misguided Expectations Hamper Pro-Environmental Behaviour Change: A Neighbourhood Study and The Social Convention Game: An experimental paradigm bridging individual psychological motivations and societal convention change have been presented at the BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference 2022 by T. Hoffmann and Z. Mlakar
PUBLICATION
August 2022
Our paper entitled Observer-Based Secure Event-Triggered Bipartite Consensus Control of Linear Multiagent Systems Subject to Denial-of-Service Attacks (with Q. Wang, W. Diao, X. Peng, and W. Zhong) has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
PUBLICATION
August 2022
Our paper entitled Modelling the Effect of Vaccination and Human Behaviour on the Spread of Epidemic Diseases on Temporal Networks (with K. Frieswijk and M. Cao) has been published in the Proceedings of the 2022 European Control Conference
PUBLICATION
July 2022
Our paper entitled Fully Distributed Quantized Secure Bipartite Consensus Control of Nonlinear Multiagent Systems Subject to Denial-of-Service Attacks (with Q. Wang, D. Tan, J. Xu, and W. Zhong) has been published in Neurocomputing
INVITED SESSION
July 2022
Our invited session entitled Dynamics on Complex Networks: Estimation, Analysis, and Control (organized with M. Ye, M. Cao, and N.E. Leonard) have been accepted for presentation at the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control​
PRESENTATION
July 2022
Our works entitled A mean-field analysis of a network behavioural–epidemic model (with K. Frieswijk, M. Ye, A. Rizzo, and M. Cao) and Population games on dynamic community networks (with A. Govaert and E. Tegling) have been accepted for presentation at the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
PRESENTATION
July 2022
I have presented our work on using dynamic norms to facilitate innovation diffusion in networks (with M. Ye and M. Cao) at the 41st Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
COVER
June 2022
Our paper with A. Truszkowska, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri entitled Predicting the Effects of Waning Vaccine Immunity Against COVID-19 through High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling has made the cover of the June 2022 issue of Advanced Theory and Simulations.
PUBLICATION
June 2022
Our work entitled Urban Determinants of COVID-19 Spread: a Comparative Study across Three Cities in New York State (with A. Truszkowska, M. Fayed, S. Wei, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.-P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, M. Porfiri) has been published in the Journal of Urban Health
PUBLICATION
May 2022
Our paper with A. Govaert and E. Tegling entitled Population games on dynamic community networks has been published in the IEEE Control Systems Letters
PUBLICATION
May 2021
Our paper entitled Dynamic Planning of a Two-Dose Vaccination Campaign with Uncertain Supplies (with G. Calafiore, F. Parino and A. Rizzo) has been published in the European Journal of operational research
PRESENTATION
May 2022
Lorenzo gave an online presentation entitled Toward realistic modeling of social diffusion at the Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
PUBLICATION
April 2022
Our work entitled A mean-field analysis of a network behavioural-epidemic model (with K. Frieswijk, M. Ye, A. Rizzo, and M. Cao) has been published in the IEEE Control Systems Letters
AWARD
March 2022
Our paper entitled High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling of COVID-19 Spreading in a Small Town has been recognized as a top cited paper Advanced Theory and Simulations in years 2020-2021
PUBLICATION
March 2022
Our work entitled A multi-layer network model to assess school opening policies during a vaccination campaign: a case study on COVID-19 in France (with C. Bongiorno) has been published in Applied Network Science
PUBLICATION
March 2022
Our paper entitled Bipartite Consensus for a Class of Nonlinear Multi-agent Systems Under Switching Topologies: A Disturbance Observer-Based Approach (with Q. Wang, W. He, D. Tan, and W. Zhong) has been published in Neurocomputing
IN THE PRESS
February 2022
Our work on modeling waning vaccine immunity for COVID-19 (with A. Truszkowska, M. Thakore, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri) is featured on Advanced Science News
PRESENTATION
February 2022
Our work on modeling vaccination on time-varying networks (with K. Frieswijk and M. Cao) has been accepted for presentation at the European Control Conference, which will be held in London, 12-15 July, 2022
PUBLICATIONS
February 2022
Our conference papers entitled Optimal policy design to mitigate epidemics on networks using an SIS model (with C. Cenedese, M. Cucuzzella, and M. Cao) and On modeling social diffusion under the impact of dynamic norms (with M. Ye and M. Cao) have been published in the proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Decisions and Control
PRESENTATION
February 2022
Our works on using dynamic norms to facilitate innovation diffusion in networks (with M. Ye and M. Cao) and on modeling vaccination on time-varying networks (with K. Frieswijk and M. Cao) have been accepted for presentation at the 41st Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
PUBLICATION
February 2022
Our paper entitled Predicting the Effects of Waning Vaccine Immunity Against COVID-19 through High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling (with A. Truszkowska, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.-P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri) has been published in Advanced Theory and Simulations
PRESENTATION
February 2022
Our work entitled Misguided expectations hamper pro-environmental behavior change: A neighbourhood study (with T. Hoffmann, J.W. Bolderdijk, W. Rauws, and M. Ye) has been presented at the SPSP Sustainability Psychology Pre-Conference
PRESENTATIONS
February 2022
Our works on modeling behavioral responses during epidemic outbreaks (with E. Tortasso, M. Ye, M. Cao, and A. Rizzo) and on social diffusion on networks (with M. Ye, Z. Mlakar, J.W. Bolderdijk, H. Risselada, B. Fennis, and M. Cao) have been presented at NetSciX 2022
PUBLICATION
January 2022
Our work entitled Reconstructing the effectiveness of policy measures to avoid next-wave COVID-19 infections and deaths using a dynamic simulation model: implications for health technology assessment of vaccination (with A. Hagens, K. Cordova-Pozo, M.J. Postma, J. Wilschut, and J. van der Schans) has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Medical Technology
PUBLICATIONS
January 2022
Our papers entitled Modelling Behavioural Preferences in Epidemic Models for Sexually Transmitted Infections on Temporal Networks (with K. Frieswijk and M. Cao) and On imitation dynamics in population games with Markov switching​ (with R. Cunha and M. Cao) have been published in the Proceedings of the 2021 European Control Conference
IN THE PRESS
January 2022
The press conference with the mayor of Borgomanero for the award "Borgomanerese dell'anno" has been featured in the Italian press
2021 & BEFORE...
PRESENTATIONS
December 2021
Our works entitled Optimal policy design to mitigate epidemics on networks using an SIS model (with C. Cenedese, M. Cucuzzella, and M. Cao) and On modeling social diffusion under the impact of dynamic norms (with M. Ye and M. Cao) have been presented at two invited sessions at the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2021)
INVITED SESSION
December 2021
The invited session on Dynamics of Social Networks, organized with A. Bizyaeva, M. Cao, and N.E. Leonard, has been held at the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2021)
PUBLICATION
December 2021
Our work on a behavioral-epidemic model for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases on time varying networks (with K. Frieswijk and M. Cao) has been published in the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
EDITORIAL BOARD
Lorenzo has joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Computational Science
November 2021
PUBLICATION
November 2021
Our survey paper entitled Analysis, Prediction, and Control of Epidemics: A Survey from Scalar to Dynamic Network Models (written with M. Cao) has been published in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
PRESENTATION
November 2021
Lorenzo gave a presentation about his Nature Communications paper in the Norms and Network Cluster group meeting at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences of the University of Groningen
AWARD
October 2021
Lorenzo Zino was awarded person of the year by his home-town municipality (Borgomanerese dell'anno 2021). The news is featured in the press.
IN THE PRESS
October 2021
Our work with A. Truszkowska, M. Thakore, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri on modeling waning vaccine immunity for COVID-19 is featured on NYU News
PUBLICATION
September 2021
Our work entitled Collective patterns of social diffusion are shaped by individual inertia and trend-seeking (with M. Ye, Z. Mlakar, J.W. Bolderdijk, H. Risselada, B.M. Fennis, and M. Cao) has been published in Nature Communication
COVER
September 2021
Our paper with A. Truszkowska, M. Thakore, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri entitled Designing the Safe Reopening of US Towns Through High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling has made the cover of the September 2021 issue of Advanced Theory and Simulations.
PUBLICATION
August 2021
Our work on a model predictive control approach to optimally devise a two-dose vaccination rollout (with F. Parino, G. C. Calafiore, and A. Rizzo) has been published in the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
PUBLICATION
August 2021
Our work on game-theoretic modeling of collective decision making during epidemics (with M. Ye, A. Rizzo, and M. Cao) has been published in Physical Review E
PRESENTATION
August 2021
Our work entitled On optimally devising a two-shot vaccination rollout through MPC (with F. Parino, G.C. Calafiore, and A. Rizzo) has been accepted for presentation at Automatica.it
IN THE PRESS
Our work on COVID-19 is featured on EurekAlert! and MedicalXpress
August 2021
PUBLICATION
August 2021
Our paper with A. Truszowska, M. Thakore, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.-P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri entitled Designing the Safe Reopening of US Towns Through High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling has been published in Advanced Theory and Simulations
IN THE PRESS
Our work on the coevolution of opinions and decisions is featured on SIAM News
July 2021
INVITED SESSION
June 2021
Lorenzo organized and chaired the special session entitled Systems and Control Insight into Modeling, Predicting, and Controlling COVID-19 at the 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, in which he gave a talk entitled Modeling Collective Behavioral Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
PRESENTATION
June 2021
Lorenzo gave an invited talk on his work on consensus on activity-driven networks (in collaboration with A. Rizzo and M. Porfiri) at the Networks2021 Satellite: Controlling Complex Networks
PRESENTATION
April 2021
Our work with M. Ye, A. Rizzo, and M. Cao on modelling collective decision making during epidemics has been presented at the RxCovea Journal Club on April, 19
PRESENTATION
April 2021
Our extended abstracts with M. Ye, A. Rizzo, and M. Cao entitled Novel game-theoretic modeling of collective decision-making during epidemics and with F. Parino, M. Porfiri, and A. Rizzo entitled A metapopulation model to assess the effectiveness of social distancing and travel restrictions on COVID-19 spreading: the Italian case study have been accepted for presentation at Networks 2021: A Joint Conference of Sunbelt and NetSci
PRESENTATION
March 2021
Our extended abstract with M. Ye, A. Rizzo, and M. Cao entitled Modeling Collective Behavioral Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions has been accepted for presentation at the 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, which will be held in Bari, Italy in June 2021
COVER
March 2021
Our paper with A. Truszkowska, B. Behring, J. Hasanyan, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri entitled High-resolution agent-based modeling of COVID-19 spreading in a small town is on the cover of the March 2021 issue of Advanced Theory and Simulations.
PRESENTATIONS
February 2021
Our papers on mathematical modeling of STDs (with K. Frieswijk and M. Cao) and on imitation dynamics on Markov switching systems (with R. Cunha and M. Cao), and our extended abstract on control of epidemics (with C. Cenedese, M. Cucuzzella, M. Cao, J.M.A. Scherpen, A.J. van der Schaft) have been accepted for presentation at the 2021 European Control Conference
PUBLICATION
February 2021
Our paper with F. Parino, M. Porfiri, and A. Rizzo entitled Modelling and predicting the effect of social distancing and travel restrictions on COVID-19 spreading has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface
PUBLICATION
January 2021
Our paper with A. Truszkowska, B. Behring, J. Hasanyan, S. Butail, E. Caroppo, Z.P. Jiang, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri entitled High-resolution agent-based modeling of COVID-19 spreading in a small town has been published in Advanced Theory and Simulations. The news is featured in the press.
PUBLICATION
January 2021
Our conference paper with M. Ye and M. Cao entitled A Coevolutionary Model for Actions and Opinions in Social Networks has been published in the Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
PRESENTATIONS
December 2020
Our work with M. Ye and M. Cao entitled A Coevolutionary Model for Actions and Opinions in Social Networks and our work with A. Rizzo and M. Porfiri entitled On Assessing Control Actions for Epidemic Models on Temporal Networks have been presented at the 59th IEEE CDC
PRESENTATION
December 2020
Lorenzo was invited to give a talk entitled Including behavioral mechanisms in models for social diffusion on his work in collaboration with M. Ye, Z. Mlakar, J.W. Bolderdijk, H. Riesselada, B. Fennis, and M. Cao at the Workshop on Dynamics in Social and Economic Networks (CDC 2020)
PUBLICATION
October 2020
Our paper with G. Como and F. Fagnani entitled Network imitation dynamics in population games on community networks has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
PRESENTATION
October 2020
Lorenzo gave the talk "On imitation dynamics in population games on networks" in the Online Seminars in Systems Theory and Engineering (here you can find slides and recorded video)
PUBLICATION
September 2020
Our paper with M. Nadini, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri entitled A multi-agent model to study epidemic spreading and vaccination strategies in an urban-like environment has been published in Applied Network Science
PRESENTATIONS
September 2020
Our works with M. Ye and M. Cao on decision-making in social groups, our work with M. Ye, Z. Mlakar, J.W. Bolderdijk, H. Riesselada, B. Fennis, and M. Cao on social diffusion, and our work with A. Rizzo and M. Porfiri on epidemics are presented at NetSci 2020
PRESENTATION
September 2020
Lorenzo was invited to present his work on imitation dynamics in population games (in collaboration with G. Como and F. Fagnani) at the NetSci Satellite: Multiscale Analysis of Dynamical Processes on Networks
PRESENTATION
September 2020
Our work with F. Parino, M. Porfiri, and A. Rizzo on modeling COVID-19 in Italy is presented at AUTOMATICA.IT, in a special session on Dynamical Systems to Model and Control Epidemic Spreading: COVID-19 and beyond. The video of the talk can be found here.
PUBLICATION
August 2020
Our work with M. Ye and M. Cao has been published in a paper entitled A two-layer model for coevolving opinion dynamics and collective decision-making in complex social systems in the Focus Issue on Dynamics of Social Systems in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
PRESENTATION
July 2020
Our work with M. Ye and M. Cao entitled A Coevolutionary Model for Actions and Opinions in Social Networks and our work with A. Rizzo and M. Porfiri entitled On Assessing Control Actions for Epidemic Models on Temporal Networks have been accepted for presentation at the 59th IEEE CDC
INVITED SESSION
July 2020
The invited session on Control and Dynamics on Complex Network Systems, organized with B. Ye, G. Como, and M. Cao has been accepted for the 59th IEEE CDC
PUBLICATION
July 2020
Our paper with J. Hasanyan, A. Truszkowska, A. Rizzo, and M. Porfiri entitled Analysis of the Heterogeneous Vectorial Network Model of Collective Motion has been published in the IEEE Control Systems Letters
PRESENTATION
July, 2020
Our works on imitation dynamics in population games and on consensus and synchronization in heterogeneous time-varying networks has been presented at the IFAC WC 2020.
PUBLICATION
May, 2020
The paper entitled On Assessing Control Actions for Epidemic Models on Temporal Networks with A. Rizzo and M. Porfiri has been published in the IEEE Control Systems Letters
PRESENTATION
April 2020
Our work on modeling COVID-19 in Italy is presented at the IEEE-CSS Italy Workshop on Modeling and Control of the COVID-19 Outbreak. Here's the YouTube link to the presentation.
PRESENTATION
Our work on social diffusion is presented at the Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
March 2020
IN THE PRESS
January 2020
Our work on leader-follower consensus is featured on the EurekAlert, NYU School of Engineering News, and Science Daily
PUBLICATION
Our work on epidemics in time-varying networks has been published in the European Journal of Control
January 2020
PUBLICATION
Our work on leader-follower consensus has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A
January 2020
PRESENTATION
Our work on consensus has been presented at Complex Networks 2019
December 2019
PRESENTATION
November 2019
Our work on imitation dynamics is presented at the workshop Network Dynamics in the Social, Economic, and Financial Sciences
VISIT
November 2019
Lorenzo visits Department of Mathematical Sciences at Politecnico di Torino for the Thematic Semester on Network Dynamics and Resilience
PUBLICATION
Our work on consensus has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
October 2019
PUBLICATION
Our work on backbone reconstruction has been published in Physical Review E
October 2019
NEW POSITION
LZ joins the DTPA, University of Groningen as a PostDoc Research Fellow
October 2019
PRESENTATION
September 2019
Our work on evolutionary dynamics is presented at the workshop Resilient Control of Infrastructure Networks
IN THE PRESS
August 2019
Our work on emergence of leaders is featured in the hompage of the Journal of The Royal Society Interface
IN THE PRESS
Our work on emergence of leaders is featured on NYU News
July 2019
PRESENTATION
Our work on epidemics in time-varying networks is presented at ECC 2019
June 2019
VISIT
Lorenzo visited the Dynamical Systems Laboratory at NYU