I am a PhD student in Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity (MERC) at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, Italy. I am advised by Francesco Bullo and Giovanni Russo. My research primarily focuses on the modelling and analysis of biologically inspired Neural Networks, contraction theory and optimization.

In 2019, I graduated in Mathematics at the University of Catania, with a thesis entitled “Variational Equilibrium, Lagrangian Theory, and Applications to Network Models”.

In 2020, I held an annual scholarship at the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in Catania on the topic “Mathematical models for volcanic hazard monitoring and decision-making methods for risk mitigation and uncertainty quantification”.

In my spare time, I enjoy playing guitar, soccer, exploring new places… and eating pizza!

NEWS

• 2024 December: Our article “Euclidean Contractivity of Neural Networks With Symmetric Weights” with Anand Gokhale, Alexander Davydov, Giovanni Russo, and Francesco Bullo (URL), received the 2024 IEEE Control Systems Letters Outstanding Paper Award!
• 2024 December: Presented the work “On Weakly Contracting Dynamics for Convex Optimization” (URL) on the invited Session Contraction Theory in Systems and Control I at CDC2024, Milan.
• 2024 July: Presented at the workshop “Variational Inequalities, Nash Equilibrium Problems and Applications” (VINEPA), Catania.
• 2024 June: Visited Professor Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate at EPFL Lausanne and gave a talk on contraction theory, biologically inspired neural networks and optimization.
• 2024 May/June: Enjoyed a six-week visit to the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zürich, hosted by Professor Florian Dörfler: many stimulating conversations and cherished time with amazing people!
• 2024 June: The final version of your article “On Weakly Contracting Dynamics for Convex Optimization”, is now out in IEEE Control Systems Letters! → URL.
• 2024 May: The final version of your article “Positive Competitive Networks for Sparse Reconstruction”, is now out in Neural Computation! → URL.
• 2024 April: The final version of your article “Modelling and Contractivity of Neural-Synaptic Networks with Hebbian Learning”, that will appear soon in Automatica, is now available online! → URL.