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Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

I am Francesco Zito and I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Catania, cum laude. Immediately upon graduation, I obtained my license as a professional engineer and worked as a computer engineer for about two years.

Since November 2021, I am a PhD student (XXXVII cycle) in Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Catania and a member of the Complex Intelligent Systems Research Group. This is a research group in the same department whose research focuses on the area of optimization in general through the use of metaheuristics and automatic learning methods.

My research interests include Reverse Engineering, Machine Learning, Gene Regulatory Networks, Metaheuristics, Bioinformatics and Optimization (See the latest publications here).

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Interests

Metaheuristic

Machine Learning

Reverse Engineering

Optimization Problems

Complex Networks

Natural and Bio-inspired Computing

Gene Regulatory Network

Bioinformatics

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Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science (XXXVII cycle)

NOV 2021 - Present

University of Catania, Catania, Italy

My research interests include Reverse Engineering, Machine Learning, Gene Regulatory Networks and Metaheuristics

Master of Science in Computer Engineering

OCT 2018 – DEC 2020

University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Thesis:  Design and Validation of Virtual Gateway
The basic idea is to use the existing network infrastructure to develop a service-oriented virtual network and thus simplify the processes for business intelligence, data management, installation and maintenance.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

OCT 2015 – OCT 2018

University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Thesis:  Innovative techniques for optimizing cache access in web applications

Advanced Courses

1st REUNICE Doctoral Summer School In Italy

10 JULY 2023 – 14 JULY 2023

University of Catania, Catania, Italy

The REUNICE Doctoral Summer School focuses on the different aspects of Sustainable Science starting from the fundamental definition and continuing with the crosslink with Artificial Intelligence and transversal skills, thus ending with practical examples of sustainable science in Environment, ICT and social innovation. More Information

9th International School on Deep Learning

3 APR 2023 – 7 APR 2023

University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

DeepLearn 2023 Spring is a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. More Information

Bertinoro International Spring School

7 MAR 2022 – 11 MAR 2022

Centro Universitario di Bertinoro, Italy

Italian Computer Science PhD organized an annual school offering three graduate-level courses aimed at PhD students in Computer Science.

  • Towards Developmental Machine Learning (Marco Gori, University of Siena)
  • Opinions and conflict in social networks: models, computational problems, and algorithms ( Aristides Gionis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
  • From Cloud to Serverless through microelements (Massimo Villari, University of Messina)
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Metaheuristics Summer School Learning & Optimization from Big Data

15 JUN 2021 – 18 JUN 2021

University of Catania, Catania, Italy

The international Metaheuristics Summer School is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide an overview on the several metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art.
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International Conferences

Speaker of THE 18th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO)

5 SEP 2023 – 7 SEP 2023

University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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Speaker of INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTIMIZATION AND LEARNING (OLA)

3 MAY 2023 – 5 MAY 2023

University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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Speaker of the 11th International Conference on Complex Network and their Applications (CNA)

7 NOV 2022 – 10 NOV 2022

University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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Speaker of the 1st Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ItaData)

20 SEP 2022 – 21 SEP 2022

Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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Member of INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTIMIZATION AND LEARNING (OLA)

18 JULY 2022 – 20 JULY 2022

University of Catania, Ortigia-Syracuse, Italy

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Speaker of the 14th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC)

11 JULY 2022 – 14 JULY 2022

University of Catania, Ortigia-Syracuse, Italy

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Projects

TALISMAN Project (Tecnologie di assistenza personalizzata per il miglioramento della qualità della vita)

6 DEC 2019 – 6 JUN 2020

Department of Electrical Electronic and Computer Engineering - University of Catania (Italy)

The TALIsMAn project aims at researching and defining new models and technologies to support vulnerable individuals, voluntary / associationism and operators of social and health services (doctors, nurses, social and health structures). The research topic assigned is that, how virtual networking and virtualization techniques can be able to protect the people's personal data in a social-health context.
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Publications

Publications

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Office 32
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania, Italy
V.le Andrea Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy

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francesco.zito@phd.unict.it