research activities

Scientific Committee member for ICAISF 2025, the 2nd International Conference on AI and Emerging Technology For Sustainable Future.

Presenter of the talk "Psychedelic Simulation" at the DigiTales - Neues zu digitalen Tools für psychische Erkrankungen webinar, hosted by Prof. Dr. Steffen Moritz.

Poster presenter, oral session paper presenter and coordinator of the last poster session of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering.

Presented poster on "Impostor Bias" research at "Psicologia in Cantiere" event (Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva, Palermo), in collaboration with the Experimental Psychology Working Group.

Presented the smartwatch-based dual diagnosis project at the 24th National AIP Congress of the Clinical and Dynamic Psychology Section.

Presented the updated scoping review "Screening of Digital and Mobile Health Technologies for Improving Smoking Detection and Cessation" at the GFN 2024, focusing on AI-enabled smartwatch detection for smoking behaviors within the Fondazione Samothrace project.

Led an interactive session with students, presenting the "AI in Action: Pioneering an Algorithm for Smoke-Free Living Through Wearable Tech" project.

Presented the Fondazione Samothrace-backed study “AI in Action: Pioneering an Algorithm for Smoke-Free Living through Wearable Tech” with Prof. Pasquale Caponnetto at the virtual forum 2nd European Conference “Psychology and AI: New Horizons”.

Supported the 26th edition of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), the leading European conference on artificial neural networks.

Showcased WILD, a large-scale dataset for synthetic image attribution, at VERIMEDIA — International Workshop on Media Verification and Integrity, part of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2025.

Led and organized the Forensic Handwritten Document Analysis challenge at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2025, along with Luca Guarnera and Prof. Sebastiano Battiato.

Presented poster on "Impostor Bias" research (published in Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation) at the Second Workshop on Generative AI & Computer Vision.

Joined the first workshop focused on generative AI and computer vision advances curated by Prof. Sebastiano Battiato.

Participation, poster presenter and staff member at the fourth edition of IFOSS – International Forensics Summer School.

Participation, poster presenter and staff member at the third edition of IFOSS – International Forensics Summer School.

Participated in SHARPER Night 2025 with the DMI stand.

Showcased AI-driven smoking detection projects and insights on impostor bias in multimedia authentication at Italy's leading innovation fair.

Presented poster on "Impostor Bias" at the inaugural Welcome Ph.D. Day poster session.

Participated in SHARPER Night 2024 with the DMI stand “Images and Smart Cities”, presenting a VR demo (Meta Quest 3) integrated with Empatica EmbracePlus smartwatches to elicit and monitor psychophysiological reactions to phobias like acrophobia and claustrophobia.

Represented the "Ordine degli Psicologi della Sicilia" within the regional pavilion during Italy's premier education fair, Didacta.

Guest and Academic editor of the Special Issue "Digital Health Innovations in the Battle Against Psychological Problems: Progress, Hurdles, and Prospects", published on the journal "Exploration of Digital Health Technologies" (Open Exploration).