Full Professor of General Sociology
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Mara Maretti (PhD) is Full Professor of General Sociology at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, where she is Vice-Director of the Doctoral School and Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Social Sciences. She coordinates the Computational Social Research Lab and directs the FrancoAngeli book series “Computational Social Science”. Her work focuses on computational social research methodology, with particular attention to online hate, the trafficking and exploitation of migrants, and climate migration.
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Lara Fontanella is Full Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Socio-Economic, Managerial and Statistical Studies of the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. Her research concerns the analysis of complex data and multivariate processes with temporal, spatial and spatio-temporal structure, focusing mainly on Bayesian factor models for continuous or categorical data, with environmental, social and economic applications. Further interests include dimensionality reduction and shape analysis. Her current research focuses on text mining, probabilistic topic models, sentiment analysis and statistical learning for knowledge graphs.
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Simone Di Zio is Full Professor of Social Statistics at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, where he carries out research and teaching in social statistics, Futures Studies and Strategic Foresight. He has developed innovative methodologies for building future scenarios, for the convergence of expert opinions and for GIS-based territorial analysis, including the Spatial Delphi and the Real-Time Spatial Delphi.
He is the founder and coordinator of the FutureSIS research group of the Italian Statistical Society and holds international roles in The Millennium Project and the Foresight Europe Network. Author of more than 150 scientific publications, he has served on the editorial boards of leading scientific journals and has led or taken part in numerous national and international research projects. His work combines statistical rigour, methodological innovation and attention to the social, environmental and technological challenges of the future.
Links: FutureSIS research group · Futures Studies Summer School · Winter School/Cruise · PRIN PNRR 2022 “The Future of Sustainability” · PRIN 2022 REPAIR
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Maurizio Parton is Full Professor of Mathematics at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. Besides mathematics, he teaches machine learning in the bachelor’s programme in “Economics and Computer Science for Business” and in the master’s programmes in “Economics” and “Economics and Business Analytics”. His main research field is differential geometry. He has worked on artificial intelligence since 2016, when AlphaGo first appeared, studying neural networks and reinforcement learning in depth, and has taught basic and advanced university courses and given many public lectures on the subject. He is deeply convinced that artificial intelligence will shape our (very) near future, and for this reason he is passionately committed to disseminating its fundamental principles and basic techniques. He is co-author of the software “SAI: a Sensible Artificial Intelligence”. His research interests are reinforcement learning and deep learning applied to game theory, computational law, the social sciences and computational biology. He leads the “Deep and Reinforcement Learning” section of the Department of Economics’ “Computational Logic and Artificial Intelligence” lab, led the AI section of the FISR 2021 project “A.I.A.CO. – Artificial Intelligence for contract law Against Covid-19”, was principal investigator of the 2018 project “SAI: a Sensible Artificial Intelligence winning Weiqi games with arbitrary komi”, and is a member of the board of the Italian National PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
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Annarita Ricci (PhD) is Associate Professor of Private Law at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, where she teaches, among others, “Private Law and New Technologies”, “Protection of the Person and of Minors”, “The Right to Control Personal Data”, and “AI Law: Liability, Ethics and Regulatory Constraints” within the interdisciplinary course “Artificial Intelligence: Technologies, Applications and Rules”.
Her research focuses on personal data protection, the security of information processes, the online protection of minors and, more generally, of vulnerable people, the digitalisation of services, and the legal issues raised by the use of artificial intelligence systems. She has taken part in numerous projects on these topics, including international ones, and teaches in many master’s programmes, specialisation and professional training courses.
She is a member of the steering committee of the Accademia Italiana del Codice di Internet and the author of many scientific works on personal data protection, the protection of the person and of minors, and legal liability arising from the use of AI systems. She sits on the editorial boards of the journals “Diritto, mercato e tecnologia” and “Famiglia e diritto”. She has also developed professional expertise in new technologies law, practising as a lawyer since 2004.
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Antonello Canzano is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. His research analyses the evolution of Latin American political systems in the Andean Community, with particular attention to legitimation, institutionalisation and the performance of representative institutions in terms of inclusion and participation. A further line of research is the comparative analysis of populism in European and Latin American countries, focusing on the structuring of consensus and organisational change in political parties. Within the Lab he has organised training and research activities on national and regional electoral observatories and on cyber security for the protection of critical infrastructures.
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Emiliano del Gobbo is Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Naples Federico II. He holds a PhD in Business and Behavioural Sciences from the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. His research interests include machine learning, predictive learning, time series, social analytics, probabilistic topic models, sentiment analysis and hate speech detection.
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Vanessa Russo is a tenure-track Researcher in General Sociology at the Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Social Sciences of the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, where she obtained her PhD in “Social Sciences: Theories, Applications and Interventions”.
Her research lies within computational sociology and combines Social Network Analysis, data mining, text mining and digital ethnography to study social relations and the transformations of contemporary society. She works on online subcultures, disinformation and propaganda networks, with particular attention to informational welfare, tech-civism and civic hacking.
Her interests also include Disaster Studies, with research on social vulnerability, social capital and community ties in post-disaster reconstruction.
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Guido Capanna Piscè holds a PhD in Sociology of Communication and Performing Arts. He is an adjunct professor at the DISCUI Department of the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” and is responsible for the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism of the Torre del Cerrano Marine Protected Area. A registered journalist, he directs the magazine “Brezza di mare” and works as a trainer and business consultant.
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Thea Rossi (PhD) is an anthropologist and research fellow at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Department of Legal and Social Sciences. Her recent research interests include digital ethnography.