ISTI Day 2025

The ISTI Day is back again this year! The event will take place on November 18, from 11:30 to 13:00 (Poster Session) and from 14:00 to 17:00 (Invited Talk and Round Table). As usual, we warmly invite everyone to take part in both the afternoon activities and the morning poster presentations (a new feature for this edition: we have moved it to the morning).

Detailed program of 2025 edition:

Dowloadable version (PDF)

Morning (Room 29):

• Poster Session

  11:30–13:00

  Come and see (and vote for) the ideas presented during this year’s ISTI Day poster session! Over 20 posters will be displayed in Room 29, with their authors available to discuss their work — don’t miss it!

  You will be able to vote for the posters on ISTI Day. Use this link to express your preference: https://poster-vote.isti.cnr.it

  Poster list

  • Auditing for movement fairness

    Francesco Lettich, Chiara Renso, Chiara Pugliese

    HPC

  • CASPER: Contextual Assistant for Problems Explanation and Resolutions in IoT Automations

    Simone Gallo, Sara Maenza, Andrea Mattioli, Fabio Paternò

    HIIS

  • Cherry-picking made Legal: Transductive Model Selection under Prior Probability Shift

    Lorenzo Volpi, Alejandro Moreo, Fabrizio Sebastiani

    AIMH

  • Deploying Conversational Agents in Virtual Research Environments: Approaches and Lessons Learned

    Massimiliano Assante, Leonardo Candela, Andrea Dell'Amico, Luca Frosini, Francesco Mangiacrapa, Alfredo Oliviero, Pasquale Pagano, Giancarlo Panichi, Biagio Peccerillo, Marco Procaccini

    InfraScience

  • Efficient Conversational Search via Topical Locality in Dense Retrieval

    Cosimo Rulli, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Guido Rocchietti,

    HPC

  • EUD4XR: Empowering End Users to Shape eXtended Reality Experiences through AI Conversational Agents

    Marco Manca, Carmelina Santoro, Ludovica Simeoli, Alessandro Carcangiu, Jacopo Mereu, Lucio Davide Spano

    HIIS

  • Evaluating Bias on Encyclopedic Knowledge in Large Language Models

    Maria Cassese, Giovanni Puccetti, Andrea Esuli

    AIMH

  • Explainable Weighted Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Channel Knowledge Map Construction in UAV-Assisted 6G Networks

    Ladan Gholami, Pietro Cassara, Alberto Gotta

    WN

  • How Can an LLM Support Personalised Older Adults Cognitive Training Robot Games?

    Giulio Canapa, Benedetta Catricalà, Marco Manca, Fabio Paternò, Carmelina Santoro, Eleonora Zedda

    HIIS

  • Improving Cybersecurity for Smart Home Systems

    Tauheed Waheed, Eda Marchetti, Antonello Calabrò

    SEDC

  • Large Language Models As Design Partners: Automating GUI Mockups to Refine Requirements

    Giovanna Broccia, Maurice ter Beek, Alessio Ferrari

    FMT

  • LoomNet: Enhancing Multi-View Image Generation via Latent Space Weaving

    Giulio Federico, Gennaro Claudio, Carrara Fabio, Amato Giuseppe, Di Benedetto Marco

    AIMH

  • One Patch to Caption Them All A Unified Zero-Shot Captioning Framework

    Lorenzo Bianchi, Giacomo Pacini, Fabio Carrara, Nicola Messina, Giuseppe Amato, Fabrizio Falchi

    AIMH

  • PSET: a Phonetics-Semantics Evaluation Testbed

    Gianluca Sperduti, Dong Nguyen

    AIMH

  • Raman Spectroscopy, Signal Processing and Machine Learning in biomedical diagnostics

    Gianmarco Lazzini, Francesco Conti, Mario D’Acunto, Davide Moroni, Maria Antonietta Pascali

    SI

  • Reasoning in Defeasible Description Logics with System W and Lexicographic Inference

    Giovanni Casini, Jonas Haldimann, Thomas Meyer

    InfraScience

  • Reconfiguration approach for resilient Systems of Systems

    Francesca Lonetti, DongJae Kang, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Eunkyoung Jee

    SEDC

  • Securing Federated Learning against Extreme Model Poisoning Attacks via Multidimensional Time Series Anomaly Detection on Local Updates

    Edoardo Gabrielli, Dimitri Belli, Zoe Matrullo, Vittorio Miori, Gabriele Tolome

    WN

  • Self-Adaptive and Decentralized Core Maintenance in Temporal Graphs

    Davide Rucci, Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi, Hanna Kavalionak, Matteo Mordacchini

    HPC

  • Smart Mirror for Cardiovascular Biomarkers Monitoring in Adolescents and Young Adult Cancer Survivors

    Sara Colantonio, Danila Germanese, Maria Antonietta Pascali

    SI

  • Stitching RTI Panoramas with Accurate Coefficient Reprojection

    Eloi Gattet, Erika Pistolesi, Federico Ponchio

    VC

  • Symbolic and Hybrid AI for Brain Tissue Segmentation using Spatial Model Checking

    Mieke Massink, Gina Belmonte, Vincenzo Ciancia

    FMT

  • Talking to DINO: Bridging Self-Supervised Vision Backbones with Language for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

    Luca Barsellotti, Lorenzo Bianchi, Nicola Messina, Fabio Carrara, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Fabrizio Falchi, Rita Cucchiara

    AIMH

  • The Writing’s on the Wall: Using AI, semantic segmentation and digital tools for the study of historical masonry

    Marco Callieri, Gaia Pavoni, Massimiliano Corsini, Anna De Falco, Filippo Sala, Quirino Saraceni, Gabriele Gattiglia

    VC

  • Towards an Infrastructure for Responsible Research Asessment Data Management

    Andrea Mannocci, Leonardo Candela, Paolo Manghi

    InfraScience

  • Unveiling Criticality in Neural Networks Through Temporal Complexity

    Marco Cafiso, Paolo Paradisi

    SI

  • YSocial: an AI-powered Social Media Virtual Twin

    Giulio Rossetti, Massimo Stella, Rémy Cazabet, Katherine Abramski, Erica Cau, Salvatore Citraro, Andrea Failla, Veronica Mesina, Virginia Morini, Valentina Pansanella

    KDD

Afternoon (Auditorium):

• Institutional Greetings

  14:00

  Emilio Fortunato Campana, DIITET Director

• State of the Institute

  14:20

  Roberto Scopigno, ISTI Director

• ISTI Awards Ceremony

  14:40

  Fabio Carrara, CNR-ISTI

• Invited Talk

  15:00

  Diego Ceccarelli – Bloomberg

• Coffee Break (Room 29)

  15:40

• Round Table

  16:00

  Generative AI – Opportunities and Risks in the Rigor of Research

  Marianna Bolognesi – UniBologna, Andrea Esuli – CNR-ISTI, Dino Pedreschi – UniPisa

• Poster awards, closing remarks and farewell

  16:50