Today at #WCCI2026 I had the honour to meet Richard Sutton, founder of modern reinforcement learning. Prof. Sutton was awarded today by IEEE with the Rosenblatt pioneer award, which adds to his Turing Award!

IEEE WCCI 2026 has started! This edition I got three papers accepted. Two of them will be presented by my PhD students: Silvia Multari⁩ (evolutionary drug design) and Matteo Grazioso (interpretable/explainable/gen AI). My own talk will focus on spectral analysis of fitness landscapes #wcci2026

A very nice shot from the final drink at #TILTing2026! I think this was Enea's fifth conference, and tomorrow we are joining the rest of the group in Maastricht for WCCI!

Yesterday I did a talk on precision medicine, patents, and European Health Data Spaces at the TILTing Perspectives 2026 conference organised by @tilt-tilburgu.bsky.social. I felt like a complete outsider, but it was a very pleasant and interesting experience nevertheless. Thanks a lot to organizers!

I am glad to announce that I have been selected for the Al Act Advisory Forum, a body established under EU's Al Act to provide expertise and advice to the European Commission and the Al Board on the implementation of the Al Act. My contribution will be on high risk systems, healthcare in particular

Today I was at the University Milano-Bicocca for the 2nd edition of ASCLEPIO AI, a congress on medical AI designed for scientific journalists. I gave a talk on pros & cons. My students Silvia, Matteo and Leone also had the possibility to present their research on drug discovery, AI Fairness, and HPC

I had the honour of being invited by Prof. D'Antiga to give a talk at the BE LIVER conference on pediatric hepatolology in Bergamo. I presented our research on AI in medicine, focusing on recent works about drug repurposing and interpretable autoencoders. Great audience response, awesome location!

Yesterday I had the honour of giving a talk at the event "Artificial Intelligence and Gender-based violence" hosted by the Department of Economics of Ca' Foscari. A very interesting, and timely, event with top notch talks. My speech focused on fairness, gender bias in generative AI, deepfakes

Today I had the great honour of meeting an authentic legend of Computer Science, Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator (among the other things) of the C++ programming language

Yesterday, I attended the Conference of University Rectors (CRUI) in Rome. The topic of the meeting was the recent agreement between CRUI and Google on AI. CRUI resides in the stunning Palazzo Rondanini, characterised by wonderful frescos commissioned by Pope Paul III back in 1550.

Yesterday I gave a long invited seminar on the future of healthcare at the CIVITAS school of "public duty" in Pordenone. The long talk (2.5 hrs!) was moderated by my good friend and amazing colleague Francesca dal Mas, who highlighted the challenges in management. Great reaction from the attendees!

Dr. Domenico Bagordo recently invited me to give the opening speech in the event "Culture and Artificial Intelligence – Digital Healthcare" at the Collegio Fratelli Cairoli, where I also met my former PhD student, Dr. Amalia Lupi, who talked about XAI. Very nice event, and I also got a cool new tie!

Yesterday morning I was in Bari for the 8th Cracking Cancer conference. I was invited by Mariangela Ciccarese (chair of health pathways of the Puglia region) to discuss the future of AI with Paolo Tralongo, president of the Italian Chief Hospital Oncologists. A very pleasant and timely event!

Juice time @ UNIMIB

Today I had the honour to give a keynote at the University of Turin. I described the advantages and dangers of AI, with an unusual (for me) focus about nursing applications. Many thanks to the organisers for the kind invitation, and the very nice opportunity to showcase our most recent work on XAI

Yesterday morning I was kindly invited to give a speech at the #UniSTEM day 2026 at Ca' Foscari. In front of a few hundred high school students I talked about the crosstalk between medicine, computer science, and philosophy determined by modern AI applied in sensitive domains like healthcare

Yesterday I had the privilege to give a talk at the event MOSAICO talks 2026. The topic was "invisible challenges", I decided to discuss professional deskilling due to AI. A very nice event, organised in the wonderful Aula Baratto within the main building of Ca' Foscari University

I recently gave invited talk at the conference "Percorsi di Oncologia di Precisione" at the Galfa tower in Milan. I showed our most recent works on melanoma modeling, AI in pathology, drug discovery. I also had the opportunity to discuss, with a very receptive audience, the risks of LLMs in medicine

Piazza Duca d'Aosta aka Stazione Centrale, Milan

A few days ago I had the privilege of giving a lecture within the PhD course "Phylosophy of AI & Robotics" at University of Milano-Bicocca. My lecture focused on philosophy of mind, explainability, Generative AI, human expression, and human rights. Thx to Prof. Datteri for the kind invitation!

Stamattina sono stato ospite della trasmissione Buongiorno Regione Veneto. Ho raccontato della nostra ricerca su AI in medicina, con un focus particolare sui nostri lavori recenti in Patologia Digitale, portati avanti con Milano-Bicocca, IEO e Università di Bergamo

Oltrepo pavese #pavia #nebbia #massicciofogging

Yesterday I had the privilege, with my volcanic colleague Francesca dal Mas, to give a talk at the first conference of General Surgery Specialty Schools hosted in the wonderful scenery of Almo Borromeo College in #Pavia. Thanks to organisers, Prof. Cobianchi in particular, for the kind invitation

Prediction of cosmic rays propagation is helpful for planning missions within the heliosphere, as they tend to damage electronics and cause tumours. We present the new COSMICA, a tool for GPU-based massive study of rays propagation. Published today on Astronomy & Computing doi.org/10.1016/j.as...

I have been kindly invited by the organisers of the 10th Congress of Anatomopathology (SIAPeC-IAP) to give a talk about the challenges of AI applied to Digital Pathology, from both a computational and an ethical point of view. Very nice experience, and the venue was rather intimidating!

A Day Without Orange is a Day Without Sunshine (2022) by Marian Dioguardi

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it. Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device. The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Today I gave a talk about the societal and pedagogical impacts of AI in medicine, within the XXII Conference of SIPEM (Italian Society of Medical Pedagogy) in Verona, Italy. I focused my talk on unfair AI, right of rebuttal, and the large scale risks of biased LLMs

A few days ago I was invited to give a speech at the XXI conference of the Associazione Italiana Documentalisti Brevettuali (AIDB), a non-profit organization about patent Research and documentation. I focused on our patents in biomed (THAITI in particular) and the importance of fairness of AI

In March the Kansai University Hospital and Ca' Foscari created a joint Academic Hub. A few days ago I have been invited to give a talk, about my research activity, in an Hub-related event called BioMed 2025. I could showcase our research on digital pathology, interpretable AI, and drug discovery

Today, #IEEECIBCB2025 has started in Tainan, Taiwan. This year I had the honour of serving as a member of the evaluation committee in a IEEE CIS student competition. Interesting experience indeed! Tomorrow I will give a talk about AI ethics, Interpretable AI, and myocardial strain clinical exams

New paper out! With the European Institute of Oncology (IEO), we studied the role of quiescent cells in melanoma for relapse and metastasis formation. Thalia, Leone and I created multiple models of proliferation, confirming the importance of non proliferating cells in fitting with experimental data

These days I'm partecipating with other members of the EUTOPIA Universities Alliance to the Research Days workshop organised and hosted by Warwick University. The goal of this exciting experience is to build consortia and apply to one, or more, joint European projects focused on human centric AI

Yesterday I had the honour to partecipate at @cgnobilephd.bsky.social's final event of her Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowship at Turin University. I felt rather misplaced among top researchers from UNITO, @ub.edu, @upc.edu, @tilburguniversity.bsky.social and @tue.nl! A great experience indeed #MSCA

Yesterday I had my first experience at Montecitorio, the lower house of the Italian Parliament. I have been invited to attend an event about the Italian Strategy for national security. I really appreciated the lectio by Prof. Iannantuoni, that could be summarised as: "give room to young minds"

I have been appointed vice coordinator of CONVECS – COmuNità VEneta per il Calcolo Scientifico. Funded by the Veneto Region, CONVECS involves 5 partners (UNIPD, UNIVE, UNIVR, INFN, IUAV) with the goal of establishing a regional infrastructure for HPC, enabling computationally intensive research

Today I gave an invited talk for the opening of the PhD program in Strategic Innovation for Sustainable and Smart Ecosystems (SIS2E) at UNIMIB. I talked about AI in medicine, the dangers of high risk applications, and the recent assaults from lobbies to the GPAI code-of-practice

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk about my work as Rector's Delegate for Digital Innovation & Integrity in Research at the "Festa dell'innovazione 2025", organised by the newspaper @ilfoglio. In my speech at Old Procuratie I discussed systemic risks and biased information #foglioinnovazione

I recently participated to ASCLEPIO AI, an event organised by the main Italian associations of scientific journalism (FAST, UGIS) dedicated to AI in medicine. I gave a talk about the right to an explanation, the danger of hallucinations, biases, etc. Thanks Rossella Guido for the kind invitation!

Enea, Chiara and I are in Trieste for the evo*2025 conference. Today I give a talk about time travel in global optimization, fun stuff! #evostar

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

I had the privilege to attend the Ministerial Dialogue on Scientific Diplomacy at UNESCO. There's agreement on the most compelling issues: climate change, misuse of biotech, unfair AI, disinformation, space regulation. Althogh some powers push in other directions, we need more science in diplomacy

The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats.  It’s between democracy and oligarchy.  The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re being shafted.  Know the truth.

"Apocalypse Cow" by Lack of Bits on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/aWx7doiYmkHt...

We need a new free speech movement. And universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-free-speech-movement

Read the full article: academic.oup.com/ehjdh/advanc...

On my way to Hannover for the VW workshop on Trustworthy AI ✈️

My illegal Pinkerton is driving me to my illegal hotel while the hallucination machine in my phone summarizes the emails my coworkers wrote using their hallucination machines. My burrito travels separately in its own limo. This is innovation and normal.

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]