people

Who's in the lab

lab pi

Chiara Boldrini

Senior Researcher — Lab PI

Human-centered decentralized AI (social-aware fully decentralized learning without a central server), social computing & computational social science (opinion dynamics, signed networks), causal learning in pervasive systems, LLMs for computational social science, and the Metaverse.

senior researchers

Andrea Passarella

Research Director; Director of IIT-CNR (since Sept. 2024)

Distributed AI, mobile/Future Internet networks, quantum Internet, online social networks.

Marco Conti

Research Director; President, FAIR Foundation; Director, CNR DIITET (since Sept. 2026)

Pervasive computing and communication systems, quantum Internet, data science, human-centered intelligent systems, distributed AI.

Lorenzo Valerio

Senior Researcher

Machine learning and distributed/decentralized learning algorithms for resource-constrained edge/IoT devices, anomaly detection for Industry 4.0.

Elisabetta Biondi

Researcher

Mathematical modeling of human behavior in online/offline social networks, opinion dynamics and the Ego Network Model, smart transportation (electric car-sharing systems).

junior researchers & postdocs

Luigi Palmieri

Postdoctoral Researcher

Network effects in fully decentralized learning (e.g., impact of network topology on decentralized federated learning).

Zain Iqbal

Postdoctoral Researcher

Edge AI.

Maddalena Amendola

Postdoctoral Researcher — IIT-CNR / ISTI-CNR

Social information retrieval and Social Search, Expert Finding in Community Question Answering platforms (e.g., TUEF), fairness in CQA systems (e.g., Stack Overflow).