research activities

Participated as track co-chair for the DFF-2025 Workshop (Deepfake Forensics) and as member of the dataset committee for the AADD-2025 Grand Challenge (Adversarial Attacks on Deepfake Detectors).

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 a scoping review on digital and mobile health technologies for smoking detection and cessation, with a focus on AI-enabled smartwatch monitoring.

Presented “AI in Action: Pioneering an Algorithm for Smoke-Free Living through Wearable Tech” with Prof. Pasquale Caponnetto.

Presented WILD, a large-scale dataset for synthetic image attribution, at the VERIMEDIA Workshop @ IJCNN 2025.

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

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

Presented a VR demo (Meta Quest 3) with Empatica EmbracePlus smartwatches to monitor psychophysiological responses to phobias, at the DMI stand “Images and Smart Cities”.

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

Guest and Academic editor of a special issue on digital mental health innovations, published in Exploration of Digital Health Technologies.