About me
I am a Research Intern at Sony AI. Before that, I was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, where I did my PhD under the supervision of Caterina De Bacco. My PhD was supported by the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. I obtained my Master's in Mathematical Engineering at the University of Padova. There, I also got my Bachelor's in Physics.
Research
My research focuses on networks, machine learning, and scientific problems that combine the two. I am particularly passionate about sociotechnical research, addressing the relationship between society and technology, where my work aims to inform policymakers in building purpose-driven solutions for equitable societies. While I enjoy technical work involving algorithms and mathematical modeling, I believe empirical observations should always drive research. Therefore, I always put data first, training algorithms to make predictions, uncovering and interpreting their hidden patterns, and solving optimization problems arising from them. For more, see my publications.
News
- Jul 1, 2024: I am joining Sony AI in Barcelona to work on scientific hypothesis generation.
- May 1, 2024: A new preprint Cohesive urban bicycle infrastructure design through optimal transport routing in multilayer networks is on the arXiv.
- Apr 26, 2024: I defended my PhD thesis!
- Apr 24, 2024: Our paper Message-Passing on Hypergraphs: Detectability, Phase Transitions, and Higher-Order Information is in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. Here a tl;dr summary of the paper.
- Apr 6, 2024: I gave the talk Bilevel optimization for traffic mitigation in optimal transport networks, at the Research Seminar on Mathematical Optimization of the Mathematical Optimization for Data Science Group at Saarbrücken University, Germany.
- Dec 26, 2023: Our paper Bilevel Optimization for Traffic Mitigation in Optimal Transport Networks is in Physical Review Letters!
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- Dec 1, 2023: A new preprint is online: Message-Passing on Hypergraphs: Detectability, Phase Transitions, and Higher-Order Information. As a symbolic compensation for the emissions generated by our numerical experiments, Nick and I planted a Hyper Mango 🥭.
- Oct 9, 2023: I do not use Twitter anymore. My social media profile is now @alonardi on LinkedIn.
- Jun 28, 2023: A new preprint is online: Bilevel Optimization for Traffic Mitigation in Optimal Transport Networks.
- Jul, 2023: Two talks at Netsci 2023: Infrastructure adaptation and emergence of loops in network routing with time-dependent loads and Bilevel optimization for flow control in optimal transport networks.
- Mar 9, 2023: I gave a talk for the NetPLACE Seminars series.
- Feb 3, 2023: Our work Infrastructure adaptation and emergence of loops in network routing with time-dependent loads is in Physical Review E!
- Jan 20, 2023: Our work Immiscible Color Flows in Optimal Transport Networks for Image Classification is in Frontiers in Physics! As a symbolic compensation for the emissions generated by our numerical experiments, Diego and I planted a cocoa tree 🌿.
- May 6, 2022: Our work Multicommodity routing optimization for engineering networks is in Scientific Reports!
- May 4, 2022: A new preprint is online: Immiscible Color Flows in Optimal Transport Networks for Image Classification.
- Dec 21, 2021: A new preprint is online: Infrastructure adaptation and emergence of loops in network routing with time-dependent loads.
- Oct 13, 2021 - Feb 11, 2022: I am a teaching assistant for the course of Advanced Probabilistic Machine Learning and Applications (2022), at University of Tübingen.
- Oct 4, 2021: Our work Designing optimal networks for multicommodity transport problem is in Physical Review Research!
- Jul 14, 2021: Our work Optimal Transport in Multilayer Networks for Traffic Flow Optimization has just been published.
- Apr 19, 2021 - July 31, 2021: I was a teaching assistant for the course Advanced Probabilistic Machine Learning and Applications (2021), at University of Tübingen.
- Feb 12, 2021: I joined the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems!