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PhD theses 6

Adaptive and efficient neural architectures: from adaptive computation to interpretable AI systems
Alessio Devoto · 2026 Sapienza University of Rome
Deep learning with structured data: topology inference and higher-order modeling
Lev Telyatnikov · 2024 Sapienza University of RomeArticle
Embedding-based methods for continual learning in neural networks
Jary Pomponi · 2023 Sapienza University of Rome · Main supervisor: Aurelio Uncini (Sapienza University of Rome)
Tackling the main challenges for an effective application of deep learning to earth observation
Valerio Marsocci · 2023 Sapienza University of Rome · Co-supervisor: Mattia Crespi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Towards Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks
Indro Spinelli · 2023 Sapienza University of Rome · Main supervisor: Aurelio Uncini (Sapienza University of Rome)
Digital Palaeography as a matter of sign representation: from the reconstruction of the objective shape of the inscriptions to their analysis through Deep Neural Networks
Lorenzo Lastilla · 2022 Sapienza University of Rome · Main supervisor: Silvia Ferrara (University of Bologna)

Master's and bachelor's theses 141

20267 theses
Andrea Perrozzi Touching Grass: A Geometric Perspective on KV Cache Eviction in Large Language Models B.Sc.
Gabriele Volzone The Explanatory Pluralism Test: Comparing Circuit-Level Explanations at Multiple Abstraction Levels Co-advisor: Marco Fasoli
Giovanni Sciocchetti Adaptive Depth for Neural Networks
Jacopo Masia Activation Steering for Masked Diffusion Language Models Co-advisor: Dr. Simone Petruzzi
Livia Oddi Automatic generation of Haiku using Large Language Models: comparing AI creativity with human poetry Sapienza University of Rome / Shibaura Institute of Technology · Co-advisor: Toru Sugimoto
Matteo Sorrentini Optimization of Semantic Communication over MIMO Channels via Adaptive Vision Transformer Compression Co-advisor: Paolo Di Lorenzo
Riccardo Corrente SatcomLLM: Domain adaptation of LLMs to Satellite Communications Sapienza University of Rome / Pi School · Co-advisor: Marcello Politi
202514 theses
Alessandra Colaiocco A multi-modal framework for airport HVAC predictive maintenance Sapienza University of Rome / Target Reply Roma / Aeroporti di Roma · Co-advisors: Paolo Barboni, Riccardo Sabbadini, Francesco Pascale
Alessandra Della Fazia Image Segmentation of Burned Areas in Satellite Imagery: Evaluating Neural Network Models and Explainability Techniques Sapienza University of Rome / NTT DATA · Co-advisors: Maria Anna Di Palma, Francesca Casini
Clara Lecce Automated Image Captioning for the Digitization of Cultural Heritage Collections Sapienza University of Rome / CINECA · Co-advisor: Donatella Sforzini
Cristiana Di Tullio Benchmarking CLIP Models for Remote Sensing Applications Co-advisor: Marco Montagna
Emanuele Ciccarelli Deep learning for data fusion in multi-radar systems Sapienza University of Rome / Leonardo SpA
Ferruccio Trisolini An overview of machine learning algorithms for recommending the next basket Co-advisor: Danilo Comminiello
Francesco Sbordone From hearing to listening: the use of artificial intelligence for quantitative assessment of listening quality Sapienza University of Rome / CINECA · Co-advisor: Donatella Sforzini
Gian Alvin Cordova Guico Deep Learning for Text Categorization: Fine-Tuning BERT for Support Tickets Co-advisor: Federico Nolè
Lorenzo Pannacci Interpreting KV cache compression methods in modern LLMs
Luca Mazzucco Decoding Human Brain with Spatio-Temporal Transformers Co-advisor: Giampiero Bardella, Surabhi Ramawat
Marco Muscas Automatic Plant Identification for Archaeological Heritage Preservation in the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo Co-advisor: Gaetano Saurio
Matteo Broglio Defining a MLOps strategy for a scale-up company Sapienza University of Rome / hlpy · Co-advisor: Nicolò Zereik
Sara Pepe Adaptive Learning with Interpretable Cosine-based Elements Sapienza University of Rome / Polytechnic University of Catalonia · Co-advisor: Ana Isabel Perez Neira
Valentina Piccione Implementing Representation Learning Methodologies for Monitoring Turbofan Engines Degradation Sapienza University of Rome / Leonardo SpA · Co-advisor: Corinna Marchili
202422 theses
Alessandro Caioli Identification of disease gene associations using heterogeneous graph learning on domain knowledge graphs
Alessandro Ippolito Maria Sgroi Mixture of Experts Graph Transformer for Event Classification in High Energy Physics
Alessandro Sottile Point cloud transformers for 3D fragment matching Co-advisor: Alessandro Baiocchi
Andrea Giordano Optimizing Bonus Allocation: an Approach based on Deep Learning Sapienza University of Rome / Lottomatica · Co-advisor: Simone Coccia
Angelo Mandara Token Sparsification for Efficient Inference in Large Language Models Co-advisors: Alessio Devoto
Cosmin Madalin Zaharia Benchmarking the Impact of Noise in Retrieval Augmented Generation Models Sapienza University of Rome / Baasbox Srl · Co-advisors: Giovanni Trappolini, Matteo Errera
Cristian Fioravanti Interpretable Graph Classification Using Transformer Architectures
Davit Gevorgyan Probability Dampening and Cascaded Gated Classifier in Online Continual Learning Scenario Co-advisors: Jary Pomponi
Federico Alvetreti Efficient Fine-Tuning of Vision Transformers Co-advisors: Alessio Devoto
Federico Argilli Improving Early Exit models with Orthogonal Regularization Co-advisors: Jary Pomponi
Giacomo Vittori Exploring Early Exit Mechanisms In Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms Co-advisors: Stefano Giagu, Andrea Ciardiello
Giuliana Iovino A Thermal Paper Prediction System based on Time-Series Forecasting Sapienza University of Rome / Advant Srl · Co-advisor: Nicola Forestieri
Giulio Corsetti Predictive Maintenance in Real Estate Business: a machine learning approach for sensor's Time series forecasting Sapienza University of Rome / eFM · Co-advisor: Matteo Masina
Laura Monzo Interpretable Manuscript Analysis with Prototypical Networks Sapienza University of Rome / Roma Tre · Co-advisors: Paolo Merialdo, Serena Ammirati
Luca Romani Toward Intelligent User Interaction Forecasting in HCL Workload Automation: A Sequence Modeling Approach Sapienza University of Rome / HCLTech · Co-advisor: Lorenzo Nichele
Mario Napoli Optimizing Speech Recognition by Dynamically Selecting and Masking Superfluous Tokens Co-advisor: Alessio Devoto
Martina Milazzo Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data Sapienza University of Rome / CentAI · Co-advisor: Alan Perotti, Alessio Borriero
Shrouk Ahmed Detecting Plants Decay on Historical Building Facades using Image Segmentation (AI) Main advisor: Prof. Rossana Mancini
Simone Petruzzi Adaptive token selection for goal-oriented communication
Stephanie Tahtouh Efficient Vision Transformers for Weed Classification in the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo Co-advisor: Gaetano Saurio
Trina Sahoo An evaluation of example rejection for defending against adversarial attacks
Valeria Pirro Benchmarking Predictive Maintenance Algorithms for Jet Engine Failures Sapienza University of Rome / Target Reply Roma · Co-advisor: Paolo Barboni
202321 theses
Andrea Morelli Novel routing methods for mixture-of-experts neural networks Co-advisor: Alessio Devoto
Andrea Potì Unlocking Patterns in Hyperspectral Data: A Self-Supervised Learning Approach Sapienza University of Rome / Leonardo Labs · Co-advisors: Dr. Alessandro Nicolosi
Benedetta Candelori Transformer-Based Methods to Analyze Single Neuron Activity during Cognitive Functions Co-advisors: Dr. Giampiero Bardella, Dr. Indro Spinelli
Davide Cacciatore Predicting the trend of electric consumption and production for the next years Sapienza University of Rome / Enel SpA · Co-advisors: Dr. Alessandro Buzzelli
Domenico Spoto Deep neural network for anomaly detection of network intrusion Sapienza University of Rome / Poste Italiane SpA · Co-advisors: Dr. Nicola Sotira, Dr. Michela Cristiani, Dr. Alessio Verdone
Francesco Verdini Deep Learning in Physics: Improved Gradient Updates Sapienza University of Rome / Technical University of Munich · Co-advisor: Prof. Nils Thuerey, Patrick Schnell
Gaurav Mohan Ramse Text to Speech for Hindi Language using Deep Learning
Gianmarco D'Alessandro Parameterized Counterfactual Explanations for Node Classification in Graph Neural Networks Co-advisor: Prof. Fabrizio Silvestri
Giorgia Fontana Optimizing Passenger Flow at Fiumicino and Ciampino Airports: A Predictive Modeling Approach Sapienza University of Rome / Target Reply · Co-advisors: Dr. Paolo Barboni
Giulia Luciani Exploring Data-to-Text in an Enterprise Intelligent Assistant: Leveraging Prompt Engineering Techniques and Large Language Models Sapienza University of Rome / Whitehall Reply · Co-advisors: Dr. Agostino Reddel
Hamna Moieez Continual Self Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing with Embedding Regularization Co-advisor: Valerio Marsocci Article
Irene Aguanno Learning with noisy labels Sapienza University of Rome / Enel SpA · Co-advisor: Dr. Alberto Marinelli
Laura Minicucci An AI Simulator for Electrification Scenarios Sapienza University of Rome / Enel · Co-advisors: Dr. Alessndro Buzzelli, Dr. Alessio Verdone
Leandro Maglianella A convergent and explainable machine learning framework for pattern recognition in the ATLAS experiment Main advisor: Prof. Christian Napoli, co-advisor: Prof. Stefano Giagu Article
Marco Di Ciò Deep Learning and Classical Machine Learning on Tabular Datasets
Marco Montagna Graph Pooling with Dynamic Node Selection
Mario Dhimitri Failure prediction using Predictive Maintenance in Industrial Assets Sapienza University of Rome / Data Prestige Srls · Co-advisor: Dr. Alessandro Fabiani
Mousaalreza Dastmard Enhancing Italian speech recognition performance using language models
Riccardo Contu Urban 3D Change Detection with Deep Learning: innovative Data Augmentation techniques Main advisor: Mattia Crespi, co-advisors: Valerio Marsocci, Virginia Coletta, Roberta Ravanelli
Tansel Simsek Parkinson’s Disease Classification from Handwritten Signatures External advisor: Prof. Antonio Suppa
Tommaso Controni Improving training of neural networks with adaptive restarts Co-advisor: Dr. Jary Pomponi
202222 theses
Alessandro Taglieri Evaluating Continual Learning strategies for audio classification
Alessio Devoto Hybrid Siamese Neural Networks for object re-identification Article
Amirhossein Rajabi Shizari Quaternion valued graph convolutional network
Antonio Zappia Vertical soil moisture profile estimation with machine learning and deep learning approaches for precision agriculture Sapienza University of Rome / Target Reply Roma · External advisor: Paolo Barboni
Artur Back de Luca Exploring the connections between Domain Generalization and Federated Learning Sapienza University of Rome / Huawei · External advisor: Prof. Guojun Zhang
Arya Farkhondeh Towards Self-Supervised Gaze Estimation Sapienza University of Rome / Universitat de Barcelona · External advisors: Sergio Escalera, Cristina Palmero Article
Christian Giannetti An innovative architecture for time series processing: the Time Series Transformer
Daniele Dantoni Robustness of Deep Neural Networks against a Novel Adversarial Attack in the RGB and Infrared Domain Sapienza University of Rome / Leonardo Labs · External advisors: Jary Pomponi, Alessandro Nicolosi Article
Diego Sonaglia Exploring Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs with XAI techniques
Dilara Isikli Sentiment Analysis and Sentiment Transfer in the Financial Domain Sapienza University of Rome / UniCredit S.p.A. · External advisors: Dr. Ilaria Bordino, Dr. Francesco Gullo, Dr. Lorenzo Severini
Emanuele Fratocchi The effectiveness of principal influencing factors and models on Customers Interactions, Satisfactions and Loyalty strategies Sapienza University of Rome / Laser Romae Srl · External advisor: Emiliano Fedeli
Gianmarco Ursini Generating handwritten text images with GANs for data augmentation Sapienza University of Rome / ENEL · External advisors: Pierfrancesco Veltri
Lorenzo Ceccomancini Spatio-temporal graph neural networks for forecasting house prices
Lorenzo Nicoletti Explainable AI for interpretable Deep Learning mod- els in a High-Energy Physics use-case with efficient muonic particles pattern recognition Main advisor: Prof. Christian Napoli, co-advisor: Prof. Stefano Giagu Article
Marco Colombi Automated License Plate Recognition using Deep Learning in a Real World Scenario Sapienza University of Rome / Data Prestige s.r.l. · External advisor: Dr. Alessandro Fabiani
Matteo Campana Semantic Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images Co-advisor: Dr. Valerio Marsocci, Prof. Aurelio Uncini
Matteo Di Mauro Facial Expression Recognition On Videos Sapienza University of Rome / Engineering SpA · External advisors: Dr. Marco Breda, Dr. Felice Tuosto, Dr. Matteo Uriselli
Poompavai Chandraprakash Short-term water demand forecasting using traditional and deep learning models Sapienza University of Rome / NTT DATA Italia · External advisor: Dr. Pietro Dicosta
Riccardo Bianchini Learning to Drop Edges for Improving Fairness Co-advisor: Dr. Indro Spinelli Article
Sabriye Ela Esme Predicting Customer Churn Using Machine Learning Methodologies Sapienza University of Rome / Toyota Turkey · External advisor: Dr. Engin Altinok
Simone Ercolino Monocular Depth Estimation of Aerial Images with Transformer models Sapienza University of Rome / Leonardo Electronics · External advisors: Dr. Luca Monorchio, Dr. Matteo Santini Article
Tran Luong Bang A benchmarking of object detection models for Urothelial Cancer cell detection External advisor: Enrico Giarnieri
202125 theses
Alessio Verdone Improving Self-supervised learning for image classification
Alice Schirinà Comparison between interpretability methods in machine learning
Daniele Sanna Electrical Time-Series Forecasting with Deep Learning Techniques Sapienza University of Rome / Target Reply Roma · External advisor: Paolo Barboni
Danilo Marzilli A Comparative Study of Quaternion Activation Functions in Deep Networks Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini
Dario Ruggeri Speech Emotion Recognition on Low Resource Languages with Transformer Models
Dastagiri Dudekula Deep Graph Neural Networks For Social Recommendation Engines
Edoardo Cantagallo Calibration and reliability of deep neural networks for predictive credit scoring Sapienza University of Rome / DeepLab Srl · External advisor: Andrea Ambrosioni
Federico Gioia Bib Identifier: a platform for classifying photos of sport events Sapienza University of Rome / Advant Srl · External advisor: Viktoryia Kotava
Flaminia Spasiano Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Infrared Deep Learning Systems Sapienza University of Rome / Leonardo SpA · External advisor: Gabriele Gennaro Article
Francesco Caputo Real-time smoking behaviour detection on edge computing Sapienza University of Rome / Smart-I · External advisor: Niccolò Cacciotti
Francesco Carpineti Bib Identifier: a platform for classifying photos of sport events Sapienza University of Rome / Advant Srl · External advisor: Viktoryia Kotava
Gabriele Tazza Benchmarking novel deep learning models on a real-world cytopathology dataset External advisor: Enrico Giarnieri
Giorgio Zanini Quirini Quaternion neural networks for land cover semantic segmentation Sapienza University of Rome / ISTAT · External advisor: Francesco Pugliese
Giuliano Abruzzo Bib Identifier: a platform for classifying photos of sport events Sapienza University of Rome / Advant Srl · External advisor: Viktoryia Kotava
Herson John Nolasco Ruiz Transferability of Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Audio Classification
Lev Telyatnikov Injecting and exploiting geometric structure in latent representations of 3D objects Sapienza University of Rome / École Polytechnique · External advisor: Prof. Maks Ovsjanikov
Livia Lilli Calibrated Cytopathological Image Classification with Deep Neural Networks External advisor: Enrico Giarnieri Article
Lucia Testa Understanding Parkinson Disease from Automatic Signature Analysis External advisor: Prof. Antonio Suppa Article
Marco Vannoli Deep Learning - Power BI - BIM: a pipeline for real-time IoT visual monitoring Sapienza University of Rome / Blogic s.r.l. · External advisor: Dr. Alberto Tricarico
Nana Teukam Yves Gaetan Language modelling for biocatalysed synthesis planning Sapienza University of Rome / IBM Research · External advisor: Matteo Manica
Onur Copur Engagement Detection in e-learning Environments Sapienza University of Rome / Barco NV · External advisor: Dr. Jürgen Slowack Article
Pol Ribó Leon Text Extraction with POS-Tagging and Word Embeddings for support tickets automation Sapienza University of Rome / Sourcesense · External advisor: Alberto Massidda
Reza Pourrahim X-Bot: Development of a Model and Data Agnostic Chatbot for Explaining the Decisions of Black Box Classifiers Sapienza University of Rome / Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory (KDD Lab) · External advisor: Prof. Fosca Giannotti, Prof. Riccardo Guidotti
Simone Marretta Multi-task deep learning for satellite image segmentation Sapienza University of Rome / Enel · External advisor: Fabrizio Chiovoloni
Stefano Fioravanti Multi-task Learning for Pedestrian Feature Detection Sapienza University of Rome / Vistrociset Spa (a Leonardo Company) · External advisor: Alessio Antenucci
20209 theses
Andrea Di Luca Emotion Recognition from Video using Partial Expressions and Deep Networks
Angelita Gabrieli Predictive log analysis with neural network models
Davide Manfredini Automatic Triage of Customer Claims using Deep Learning Sapienza University of Rome / Enel Group · External advisor: Hugo Maldini
Fabio Montello Automatic credit rating for SMEs using interpretable deep learning Sapienza University of Rome / DeepLab Srl · External advisor: Andrea Ambrosioni
Federico Peconi Robustness of Deep Neural Networks with Trainable Activation Functions
Lorenzo Bartozzi Attention-based activation functions for deep networks
Matteo Cavalletti Automatic costumer trouble ticket allocation using Behavioral Cloning Sapienza University of Rome / TIM · External advisor: Paolo Di Bartolomeo
Nguyen Phu Hien A system to detect fake news by leveraging document embedding Sapienza University of Rome / Sourcesense · External advisor: Alberto Massidda
Sandeep Reddy Sabbella Fire and Smoke Detection for Smart Cities Using Deep Neural Networks and Edge Computing on Embedded Sensors Sapienza University of Rome / Smart-Interaction · External advisor: Dr. Giovanni Trovini
20197 theses
Eleonora Grassucci Generative Adversarial Networks with flexible activation functions Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini Article
Indro Spinelli Missing Data Imputation with Graph Neural Networks Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini Article
Jary Pomponi Techniques for improving continual learning in deep networks Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini Article
Michele Cirillo Stability and Generalization using Gaussian Kernel Activation Functions Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini Article
Paolo Barcaro Quantizing kernel activation functions in neural networks Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini
Riccardo Vecchi Compression Techniques for Deep Quaternion Neural Networks Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini Article
Roberto Rovella Intrinsically motivated exploration algorithm for an open-ended learning agent Sapienza University of Rome / Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) · Co-advisor: Dr. Emilio Cartoni
20185 theses
Ahmad Irjoob Manifold regularization for semi-supervised learning on relational and graphical databases Company advisors: Gabriele Nocco, Marco Mele. Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini
Ahmed Elsafy Automatic Speech Dialect Classification for Arabic Language Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini
Elena Gagliardoni DeepChatbot : un chatbot sviluppato con Deep Learning Università degli Studi di Perugia
Mohamed Ahmed Missing Data Imputation using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini
Sibghat Ullah Convex Approximation Techniques for Recurrent Neural Networks Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini
20171 thesis
Miquel Tubau Pires Study and implementation of manifold regularization techniques in neural networks B.Sc. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Main advisors: Prof. Javier Hernando, Prof. Aurelio Uncini
20166 theses
Alberto Marinelli Deep Neural Networks with Flexible Activation Function Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini
Claudio Mazzei Stacked Auto-Encoders per la classificazione di streaming audio Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini
Gianluca Calabria Separazione di sorgenti monocanale mediante Deep Recurrent Neural networks Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini
Lucas Stoffl Recurrent Neural Networks for Spoofing Detection B.Sc. Technische Universität München · Main advisors: Priv-Doz. Dr. Florian Röhrbein, Prof. Aurelio Uncini Article
Marco Biaggi Reti Neurali per la classificazione delle pagine web Main advisor: Prof. Aurelio Uncini
Valentina Ciccarelli Tecniche per il mantenimento della privacy nel machine learning distribuito Main advisor: Prof. Massimo Panella Article
20152 theses
Beatrice De Santis Reti Neurali Ricorrenti per la generazione del testo B.Sc. Main advisor: Prof. Massimo Panella
Roberto Fierimonte Distributed Learning by Neural Networks Main advisor: Prof. Massimo Panella Article