Doctoral Consortium

Date: 19 June 2026

Room: CB30A

Chairs: Valerio Guarrasi (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma)

Description

The Doctoral Consortium is dedicated to PhD students conducting research in Artificial Intelligence and provides a setting for presenting and discussing ongoing work. It is part of the Italian National PhD Programme in AI and supports interaction among students working on emerging research topics. The Consortium represents a moment for scientific exchange and community building within Ital-IA 2026.

Detailed Programme

Times show each contribution's presentation slot. An asterisk marks the presenting author when provided in the programme data.

TimeIDContribution
11:30-13:30-NVIDIA workshop on Rapid Application Development with LLMs and a Medical Use-caseSpeaker: Eyup Cinar, Eskisehir Osmangazi University and NVIDIA University Ambassador
13:30-14:30Lunch
14:30-14:40#46Machine Unlearning in Large Language Models: Challenges and Research DirectionsD'Agostino, Carmen; Talia, Domenico; Trunfio, Paolo
14:40-14:50#15Towards Reliable Large Language Models: Probing, Steering, and Mitigating HallucinationsLaraspata, Lucrezia
14:50-15:00#40Trustworthy Language Models for Health ApplicationsLunardi, Riccardo
15:00-15:10#50Genomic Language Models for Biomedicine: Current Results in Virology and Future DirectionsArozarena Donelli, Pablo
15:10-15:20#70Multimodal AI-Based Integration of Handwriting for Cognitive Decline Detection: A surveyCornacchia, Ester; Gattulli, Vincenzo; Monaco, Alessia; Impedovo, Donato; Taurisano, Paolo
15:20-15:30#72A Tablet-Based Protocol for Multimodal Cognitive AssessmentMonaco, Alessia; Gattulli, Vincenzo; Cornacchia, Ester; Impedovo, Donato; Taurisano, Paolo
15:30-15:40#97GAN-based synthesis of Diffusion Gradient Directions in Diffusion Tensor ImagingSantoro, Simone; Ricchi, Mattia; Brizi, Leonardo; Green, Alexander; Eraifej, John ; Zand, Amir Divanbeighi ; Testa, Claudia; Grist, James
15:40-15:50#24MedSecure: Adaptive Adversarial Attacks for Medical ImagingFabiano, Manuel; Mirto, Fabio Orazio; Merlino, Giovanni; Longo, Francesco
15:50-16:00#32A Conceptual Taxonomy of Adversarial Machine Learning: Attacks and DefencesBello, Stefania; Impedovo, Donato
16:00-16:10#28Understanding Robust Representation Learning and Data Utility under Low-Resource ConditionsConcas, Filippo
16:10-16:20#115Leveraging Adaptive Data-Driven Granulation for Situation-Aware ADHD RecognitionCortellessa, Gabriella; D'Aniello, Giuseppe; Della Corte, Mario; Gaeta, Matteo; Lamo, Yngve; Ur Rehman, Zia
16:20-16:30#23NeuroFuse-MS: From Images to Outcomes with a Knowledge-Aware Multimodal Approach to Multiple Sclerosis Progression PredictionFrancia, Riccardo
16:30-16:40#12Hybrid Quantum-Classical Networks via Knowledge DistillationBarbato, Luigi; Krazheva, Vasilena T.; Gargiulo, Francesco
16:40-16:50#64Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks through SMT VerificationChernobrovkin, Artem
16:50-17:00#130Transformer-based HBO-fNIRS-T model for binary motor task classificationZawar Ul Hassan, Muhammad; Abid, Urooj; Nazeer, Hammad; Naseer, Noman; Spampinato, Concetto; Proietto Salanitri, Federica
17:00-17:10#103LAPPATO_MCB: Literature-Aware Pipeline Partner for Adaptive Transplant OptimizationCaretti, Massimiliano