Assistant Professor - Politecnico di Torino
RESEARCH TOPICS
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HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS
I focus on understanding the emergent behavior of a social community whose members dynamically take collective decisions. My interests spans from experimental studies to support and validate the models, to the development of new theoretical models and their analysis.
CONTROL OF COMPLEX MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
Control of multi-agent systems is a fascinating problem, which involves the design of control methods to efficiently steer a network of agents toward a desired state, deling with different types of dynamics (from consensus to evolutionary dynamics), stochasticity, communication constraints, cyberattacks, limited information, noise, and many other factors.
RESILIENCE IN FINANCIAL NETWORKS
We investigate the resilience of financial networks against exogenous shocks, which can trigger primary and secondary defaults that propagate through the network in a cascading manner. To perform , these studies, I use tools from optimization theory and complex networks.
MODELING AND CONTROL OF EPIDEMIC DISEASES
Understanding epidemics spreading processes on complex networks is a core question in the field of network science applied to epidemiology. In my research, I develop and study deterministic and stochastic epidemic models with a control-theoretic perspective.
IDENTIFICATION OF TIME-VARYING NETWORKS
Many complex systems are characterized by time-varying parameters and evolving patterns of interactions. In my research, I focus on proposing new models to capture such a complexity and on developing tools for reconstructing the network structure and the system's parameters from empirical data.
MODELING AND CONTROL OF COVID-19
Since its inception in December 2019, the COVID-19 outbreak has rapidly spread, becoming a worldwide pandemic. In response to this unprecedented health crisis, we witnessed an extraordinary mobilization of the scientific community toward better understanding the novel disease and combating its spread. Within this joint effort, I work on the developing of mathematical models to predict the spreading of the disease and assess the effectiveness of different intervention policies.
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GAME-THEORETIC MODELS OF LEARNING PROCESSES
We consider scenarios in which players have limited information about the structure of a game they are playing, and we investigate different problems, spanning from the characterization of the emergent behavior, to the convergence to Nash equilibria.
COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR IN COMPLEX NETWORKS
We study the emergence of consensus and collective behavior in complex social systems, characterized by a time-varying and heterogeneous network structure. Our results, spanning from experimental studies to unveil the emergence of leaders in a system to the theoretical analysis of collective motion.
MY COLLABORATORS
(in alphabetical order)
Martina Alutto, Luca Ambrosino, Brian D.O. Anderson, Brandon Behring, Mattia Boggio, Jan Willem Bolderdijk, Christian Bongiorno, Francesca Bianca Brovia, Giulia Brusadin, Daniel A. Burbano Lombana, Sachit Butail, Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore, Lorenzo Calogero, Ming Cao, Alessandro Casu, Emanuele Caroppo, Zhiyong Chen, Hui Cheng, Francesco Celino, Carlo Cenedese, Giacomo Como, Kathya Cordova-Pozo, Julien Corsin, Ella Connor Davidson, Tan Dayu, Hassan Dehghani Aghbolagh, Michele Cucuzzella, Rafael Cuhna, Weilu Diao, Filippo Fabiani, Fabio Fagnani, Rui Feng, Bob M. Fennis, Angela Fontan, Giulia Fracastoro, Barbara Franci, Kathinka Frieswijk, Tianshu Gao, Rory Gavin, Francesca Giardini, Alain Govaert, Nicolò Gozzi, Elena A. Gubar, Arnold Hagens, Jalil Hasanyan, Wangli He, Tabea Hoffmann, Zhong-Ping Jiang, Karl H. Johansson, Elisabeth Krasner, Zhi Li, Alessandro Licciardi, Zhiyun Lin, Giovanni Marinello, Mattia Mazzoli, Wenjun Mei, Zan Mlakar, A. Stephen Morse, Gabriel Muinos, Matthieu Nadini, Shinosuke Nakayama, Carlo Novara, Giacomo Orlandi, Keith Paarporn, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Pagone, Francesco Parino, Xin Peng, Maurizio Porfiri, Maarten Postma, Anton Proskurnikov, Roberta Raineri, Ward Rauws, Hans Risselada, Alessandro Rizzo, Lamberto Rondoni, Jacquelien M.A. Scherpen, Vaibhav Kumar Singh, Rayan Succar, Francesco Surano, Vladislav A. Taynitskiy, Emma Tegling, M. Thakore, Agnieszka Truszkowska, Giovanna Turvani, Jurjen van der Schans, Daniele Vilone, Elisa Viola, Deborah Volpe, Qiang Wang, Jan Wilschut, Jinze Wu, Jiapeng Xu, Mengbin Ye, Weimin Zhong