Curriculum Vitae

Giulio Rossetti

Senior Researcher at CNR-ISTI, External Professor of Network Science at the University of Pisa, and PI of the SNA@KDD team.

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147
Publications
11
Years since the PhD (2015)
15
Researchers in the team
33
Supervised MSc theses

Current positions

Coordinator, Social Network Analysis team
KDD Lab (CNR-ISTI)
Since 2017 · PI of the SNA@KDD research team
Member of the Doctoral Collegium
National Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence for Society, University of Pisa
Since 2023 · PhD supervision

Experience

  1. 2023 – now

    Doctoral Collegium Member

    National P.h.D. in Artificial Intelligence for Society, Pisa, Italy
  2. 2023 – now

    Senior Researcher (permanent position)

    Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo", CNR, Italy
    • Coordinator of the KDD Complex Network research team
  3. 2019–2022

    Researcher (permanent position)

    Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo", CNR, Italy
    • Coordinator of the KDD Complex Network research team
  4. 2019 – now

    External Professor of Network Science

    University of Pisa, Italy
  5. 2018

    Assistant Professor (RtD-A)

    University of Pisa, Italy
  6. 2017–2018

    Researcher

    Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo", CNR, Italy
    • Coordinator of the KDD Complex Network research team
  7. 2015–2017

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    University of Pisa, Italy

Education

  1. 2015

    PhD in Computer Science

    University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
  2. 2011

    MSc in Computer Science

    University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Honors and Awards

2024Sage Concept Grant 2024 ("Doing Research" category) for Y: The Home of LLMs – A Digital Twin for Social Media Analysis
2020Young Open Science Award, ISTI-CNR, CNR-ISTI, Italy
2020Italian national scientific qualification (ASN) to associate professorships for Computer Science and Information Processing Systems
2012 - 2019Awarded five times with the Young Researcher Award, ISTI-CNR, Italy

Academic Interests

01

Computational Social Science

Online debates, polarization and echo chambers, polluted information environments and online well-being, studied through large-scale social data.

Online DebatesOnline Well-Being
02

Network Science

Dynamic, higher-order and feature-rich network models; community discovery, diffusion and opinion dynamics on and of complex networks.

Network ModelingNetwork Dynamics
03

Generative AI

How large language models reason, agree and persuade: cognitive biases, opinion dynamics among LLM agents and the interplay between human and machine cognition.

Opinion DynamicsCognitive NetSci
04

Social Twins

LLM-powered digital twins of social media platforms to run controlled, reproducible experiments on recommender systems, moderation and information spread.

YSocial GenAI & Social Twins

Research lines

Other Interests

Sport: Fencing, FootballMusic: RockBooks: Science Fiction, Fantasy, History, Philosophy

General Information

Full Name
Giulio Rossetti
Date of Birth
6th October 1984
Languages
Italian, English

Teaching & supervision

Courses
Network science and programming courses at the University of Pisa, PhD schools and outreach.
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Supervision
15 researchers in the SNA@KDD team and 33 supervised MSc theses.
See /team →