Projects

Current projects

Modelli del comportamento degli agenti artificiali — Seedcorn Grant 2026

Interdisciplinary research project funded by the University of Bergamo through the 2026 Seedcorn Grant. The project studies which economic and behavioral theories best explain the strategic decisions of artificial agents based on Large Language Models, using directly comparable experiments with human participants and AI agents. Budget: €8,000. I am the Principal Investigator. Duration: 12 months (2026–2027).

AI for Sustainable Futures (AI4SF) PhD program

I am a member of the doctoral board of the interdepartmental PhD in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Futures at the University of Bergamo. I co-designed the PhD programme and coordinate the curriculum "Participatory development of AI models, methods and applications".

Past projects

Advanced technologies for teaching in Computer Science

Project "Tecnologie avanzate per la didattica nei corsi di informatica (86038) e di supporto ai corsi offerti dal Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche alla L-33", awarded through a competitive internal call at the University of Bergamo. I was project lead and budget holder.

FAI-PA — Human-centered AI for the training of public employees

Project "Nuove competenze per la PA: human-centered AI nella formazione dei dipendenti pubblici (FAI-PA)", funded by the Italian Dipartimento della Funzione Pubblica. Budget: €99,555.50. I was Co-Investigator. Duration: 2023–2025.

HEXAGON — Highly-specialized EXact Algorithms for Grid Operations at the National level

PRIN-PNRR project (code P20227CTY3_02 - CU F53D23009990001), funded by the EU's Next Generation EU initiative and the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR). Total budget: €232,300. I was the local-unit leader at the University of Bergamo, developing algorithms for problems of electricity transmission/distribution and investment in energy capacity, using single- and multi-level optimization, linear and nonlinear programming, and game-theoretic techniques. Duration: 2023–2025.

Space-time graph convolutional neural networks (ST-GCN)

Project "Space-time graph convolutional neural networks: learning and predicting time-varying graph relationships with applications to the air transportation sector", funded by the University of Bergamo (biennial experienced research fellowship, 2023 call). Budget: €64,800. I was the Principal Investigator; the project funded the research fellowship of Dr. G. Andreana. Duration: 2023–2025.

NEXT GENERATION UPP

Project "Nuovi schemi collaborativi tra Università e Uffici Giudiziari per il miglioramento dell'efficienza e delle Prestazioni della giustizia nell'Italia NordOvest", funded by the Italian Ministry of Justice (PON Governance 2014–2020). I was a local-unit investigator at the University of Bergamo.

Economic Ageing of Transformers

Project funded by the National Grid (UK). Total budget: £446,814. I developed optimization algorithms for assessing the economical impact of updating the ratings of electrical transformers. Duration: 2020–2021.

Royal Society & China NSF International Exchange Grant

International exchange grant funded jointly by the UK Royal Society and the Chinese National Science Foundation. Budget: £12,000. Duration: 2020–2022.

VINO — Virtual Network Optimization

Project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), carried out at RWTH Aachen University. Focused on virtual network embedding and robust network optimization. Duration: 2013–2016.

Robust optimization of power networks

Project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economy and Energy (BMWi), in collaboration with industrial partner ProCom GmbH and RWTH Aachen University. Duration: 2014–2016.

Robust Mixed-Integer Linear Programming

Project funded by Google Inc., carried out at RWTH Aachen University. Duration: 2012–2013.

DECEMbRIA — Decisions in health-care emergencies

Project funded by the Lombardy Region Health-care Directorate-General (Italy), in collaboration with the 118 Emergency Service operations center and Politecnico di Milano. Focused on decision support systems for patient evacuation in mass-casualty emergencies. Duration: 2008–2010.