Research activities

Conferences, Schools and Workshops

  • Speaker - 18th Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2023), 6 - 10 September 2023 | Glasgow, United Kindom
  • Speaker - 10th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimisation Methods and Their Applications 2022 (BIOMA 2022), 17 - 18 November 2022 | Maribor, Slovenia
  • Local organizer committee - International Conference in Optimization and Learning (OLA 2022), 18 - 20 July 2022 | Siracusa, Italy
  • Local organizer committee and speaker - 14th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2022), 11 - 14 July 2022 | Siracusa, Italy
  • Local organizer committee - International Conference in Optimization and Learning (OLA 2021), 20 - 21 June 2021 | Catania, Italy (Online)
  • Local organizer committee and participant - Metaheuristics Summer School (MESS 2020+1), 15 - 18 June 2021 | Catania, Italy (Online)
  • Speaker - 7th International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI 2020), 14 - 15 November 2020 | Stockholm, Sweden (Online
  • Speaker - 9th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimisation Methods and Their Applications 2020 (BIOMA 2020), 19 - 20 November 2020 | Bruxelles, Belgium (Online)
  • Speaker - XIV International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE2019), 18 - 20 September 2019 | Rende, Italy

Seminars

  • Presentation of the research project, 13 January 2023 | ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Online)
  • "The Role of Competition in Social Groups: the Case Study of Ant Colonies and Its Applications”, 12 March 2021 | University of Catania, Italy (Online)

Teaching

  • A.Y. 2022/2023 – "Artificial Intelligence and Laboratory" (9 ECTS), Master's Degree in Computer Science - 2nd Year (LM18), Prof. Mario Pavone. Ant Colony Optimization Algotithm and applications.
  • A.Y. 2020/2021 – "Scientific and Linguistic Methodology - Computer Science" (5 ECTS), Single-cycle Master's Degree in Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics (LM46), Prof. Mario Pavone. Microsoft Excel Exercise.