Keynotes, invited talks, conference organisation, awards and press.
Section 01
Keynotes & invited talks
Where the work gets argued with, which is where it improves.
2026
KeynoteMachine Learning for Social Good: Challenges with Vulnerable Populations — Workshop on Multimodal Machine Learning for Social Good
TutorialNetworks in Crises: Leaving No One Behind — International School and Conference on Network Science
InvitedTurning Models into Action: Advances in Modelling for Food Security and Humanitarian Response
InvitedAI and Human Flourishing: Designing a Future Worth Living — Turin, Italy
InvitedInnovative Technologies on Children on the Move — Nairobi, Kenya
2025
KeynoteMachine Learning for Social Good: Algorithmic & Data Challenges when working with Vulnerable Populations — Ethics in Complex Systems, October
KeynoteMachine Learning for Social Good — Computational Social Science workshop, Siena, September
KeynoteMoral Values in Decision-Making Language and Social Influence in Vaccine Behaviour — Siena, September
InvitedHigh-level workshop, Futures of Behavioural Data Science, AI, Technology & Development for Children — November
InvitedUnequal Journeys to Food Markets: Continental-Scale Evidence from Open Data in Africa — October
InvitedHumanitarian Machine Learning projects — the meeting opened a new collaboration, October
LectureMachine Learning for Social Good — Summer School on Data Analysis, Chania, July
InvitedComparing Mobile Phone and Facebook Data during Emergencies — Norrköping, Sweden, July
InvitedEvacuation Patterns and Socioeconomic Stratification in the Context of Wildfires — April
InvitedEvacuation Patterns and Socioeconomic Stratification in the Context of Wildfires — Trento, January
PanelData Collaboration: Return On Investment — Turin, February
2024
KeynoteNavigating Morality: Leveraging NLP to Understand Controversial Discourses — Miami, USA, November
KeynoteMachine Learning for Social Good — Calabria, Italy, September
KeynoteMachine Learning for Social Good — Exeter, UK, September
KeynoteMachine Learning for Vulnerable Populations — Amsterdam, May
European Mobility Symposium
InvitedPisa, Italy
InvitedWhat lawyers do not know about AI — February
2023 and earlier
InvitedNavigating Moral Narratives in Vaccine Decision-Making — Milan, October 2023
InvitedMachine Learning for Humanitarian Applications — Santiago, August 2023
InvitedCross-Border Spillovers of Vaccine-Hesitant Content — Santiago, August 2023
PanelComputational Social Science for the SDGs — Copenhagen, July 2023
InvitedInstitute of Applied Data Science (2021); Modelling Human Values with Digital Data (2020), London
InvitedData Science for Good — New York, November 2018
Facebook Inc.
InvitedCore Data Science Laboratory — Menlo Park, USA, January 2014
Section 02
Conference & workshop organisation
Building the venues where this community can argue in public.
Local ChairConference on Complex Systems Italy
Demo & Poster ChairDigital Public Health, Madeira, Portugal
Organiser5th Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable — AAAI ICWSM, Copenhagen
OrganiserNetwork Science for the Sustainable Development Goals — Maastricht
Technical Program ChairACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good
OrganiserMachine Learning for Social Good: Algorithmic & Data Challenges when working with Vulnerable Populations
Founder & OrganiserData for the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable — now in its 5th edition; the workshop series I founded at AAAI ICWSM
TutorialCapturing Human Values during Controversies (Copenhagen, 2023); Modelling Human Values with Social Media (Amsterdam, 2019)
OrganiserYoung Researcher’s Forum, International Digital Public Health Conference
EPJ Data Science
Lead Guest EditorSpecial Issue on Data for the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable
Springer Nature
Guest EditorInternational Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA)
Frontiers
Associate EditorDigital Public Health · Review Editor, Data Analytics for Social Impact
2023
Best PaperACM GoodIT —
Leave no Place Behind: Improved Geolocation in Humanitarian Documents, Lisbon
2021
Best PosterPopulation Association of America — Facebook Ads as a Demographic Tool to Measure the Urban-Rural Divide
2020
RecognitionNeurIPS 2020 — Top 10% high-scoring reviewers
2019
Best PaperACM UMAP — User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Cyprus
Best Poster3rd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, Zurich
2018
Best Tech for SocietyHorizon 2020 project, by Innovation Radar at ICT 2018
2016
Best PaperUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, Toronto
Aldo Piccialli PrizeXXI Colloquium on Music Informatics, Cagliari
Section 05
Impact, press & outreach
Where the research left the academy.
The GovLab
InterviewInterviewed by Stefaan Verhulst for the Social Data for Health report, 2025
Nature
PressResearch Highlight — “Parent forums a more conducive channel for vaccine education”
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