Past PhD Students in Mathematics
PhD Program XXXVII Cycle a.y. 2021/2022
Dr. BANNWART CLEMENS
Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Landi
Thesis Title: Algebraic topological invariants for Morse-Smale vector fields
Dr. BELTRAMI VERONICA
Supervisor: Prof. Alberto Saracco
Thesis Title: Holomorphic Dynamics in Fatou Components in Two Complex Variables
Dr. BOZZOLA FRANCESCO
Supervisor: Prof. Lorenzo Brasco
Thesis Title: Topological and capacitary methods for Poincaré inequalities
Dr. CATOZZI AMBRA
Supervisor: Prof. Federica Porta, Co-supervisor: Prof. Marco Prato
Thesis Title: Novelties in the Deep Image Prior framework for image restoration
Dr. CRISTOFORI SIMONE
Supervisor: Prof. Michela Zedda
Thesis Title: epsilon-function and the coefficients of its asymptotic expansion for constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics on noncompact manifolds
Dr. FARAONE RENATO
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandra Palmigiano
Thesis Title: Analogies, Metaphors, Allegories: Categorial architectures of general intelligence
Dr. GOVI ELENA
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna
Thesis Title: Towards Robust 6D Pose Estimation: Investigating Synthetic Data, Challenging Materials and Complex Robotic Environments
Dr. MELLA LORENZO
Supervisor: Prof. Anita Pasotti
Thesis Title: Heffter arrays and related topics
Dr. RENDA FABIO
Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Menini
Thesis Title: Coactions of E(n) on Clifford Algebras
Dr. SHRIVASTAV CHINMAY SATISH
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna
Thesis Title: Deep Learning Algorithms for Environment Perception
Dr. TROMBINI ILARIA
Supervisor: Prof. Valeria Ruggiero
Thesis Title: On the hyperparameters setting for the first order stochastic optimization methods in machine learning
PhD Program XXXVI Cycle a.y. 2020/2021
Dr. AYHOU RAJI
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna
Thesis Title: Model Predictive Planning and Control for Autonomous Racing, from HPC to Embedded Platforms
Dr. BIANCHI FRANCESCA
Supervisor: Prof. Lorenzo Brasco
Thesis Title: Some geometric estimates for fractional Poincaré inequalities
Dr. CASINI FRANCESCO
Supervisor: Prof. Cristian Giardinà
Thesis Title: Multi-species interacting particle systems: duality, integrability and scaling limits
Dr. DE FAZIO PAOLO
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandra Lunardi
Thesis Title: On non autonomous Ornstein-Uhlenbeck evolution operators in infinite dimension
Dr. HU MI
Supervisor: Prof. John Erik Fornaess
Thesis Title: Complex Dynamics inside Fatou Sets
Dr. MASOLA ALESSIO
Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Capodieci
Thesis Title: Memory Interference and Performance Prediction in GPU-Accelerated Heterogeneous Systems
Dr. PAGLIARINI GIOVANNI
Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Capodieci
Thesis Title: Modal Symbolic Learning: from Theory to Practice
Dr. PEZZI DANILO
Supervisorr: Prof. Silvia Bonettini
Thesis Title: Learning variational models via bilevel optimization and unfolded algorithms
Dr. PICCININI MIRCO
Supervisor: Prof. Giampiero Palatucci, Co-supervisor: Prof. Sergio Polidoro
Thesis Title: Energy methods for local or nonlocal problems in sub-Riemannian setting
Dr. SCRIBANO CARMELO
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna
Thesis Title: Model Predictive Planning and Control for Autonomous Racing, from HPC to Embedded Platforms: Transformative Approaches for Deep Learning in Resource-Constrained Scenarios
Dr. TORRICELLI ANDREA
Supervisor: Prof. Michela Eleuteri, Co-supervisor: Prof. Luca Lussardi
Thesis Title: Variational Methods in Material Science
Dr. ZAGATI ANNA CHIARA
Supervisor: Prof. Lorenzo Brasco, Co-supervisor: Prof. Francesca Prinari
Thesis Title: Lane-Emden equations and the geometry of Sobolev-Poincaré inequalities
PhD Program XXXV Cycle a.y. 2019/2020
Dr. BERETTA DAVIDE
Supervisor: Prof. Federico Bergenti
Thesis Title: A Bottom-up Method for Rule Construction in Neural-Symbolic Reinforcement Learning
Dr. CAVICCHIOLI PAOLO
Supervisor: Prof. Paola Cristofori
Thesis Title: Algorithms on braids and links in 3-manifolds
Dr. D’ADDESE GIANLUCA
Supervisor: Prof. Manuela Montangero
Thesis Title: Models and methods for biological complex systems: intracellular and multicellular interactions
Dr. IPOCOANA ERICA
Supervisor: Prof. Michela Eleuteri
Thesis Title: Nonlinear problems with biological and physical insights
Dr. GRASSI SARA
Supervisor: Prof. Lorenzo Pareschi
Thesis Title: Swarm and consensus based methods for global optimization: mean-field convergence and applications to machine learning
Dr. MOAZEN ISA
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna
Thesis Title: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems for high-performance embedded automotive platforms
Dr. MUZZINI FILIPPO
Supervisor: Prof. Lorenzo Pareschi
Thesis Title: Control, Perception and Coordination Algorithms for Advanced Driver-Assistance System: Optimized Implementations and Simulations
Dr. REBUCCI ANNALAURA
Supervisor: Prof. Luca Lorenzi
Thesis Title: Regularity results and new perspectives for degenerate Kolmogorov equations
Dr. SAPIENZA DAVIDE
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna
Thesis Title: Deep learning solutions for real-time object detection and 6D pose estimation
Dr. SFERRUZZA TOMMASO
Supervisor: Prof. Michela Zedda
Thesis Title: Formality of special complex manifolds: deformations and cohomological properties
Dr. STAN EDUARD IONEL
Supervisor: Prof. Guido Sciavicco
Thesis Title: Foundations of Modal Symbolic Learning
Dr. WINDARE JOSHUA OLUGABWENGA
Supervisor: Prof. Leonardo Biliotti
Thesis Title: Gradient maps associated with actions of real reductive groups
PhD Program XXXIV Cycle a.y. 2018/2019
Dr. BAGOSSI SARA
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Cristina Patria
Thesis Title: Second-order covariation: an analysis of students’ reasonings and teacher’s interventions when modelling real phenomena
Dr. BIGNAMINI DAVIDE AUGUSTO
Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Morandini
Thesis Title: Transition semigroups associated to nonlinear stochastic differential equations
Dr. BRILLI GIANLUCA
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna
Thesis Title: Memory Interference and Mitigations in Reconfigurable HeSoCs for Embedded AI
Dr. CORNIANI ELSA
Supervisor: Prof. Alberto Calabri
Thesis Title: Wonderful compactifications and Kontsevich moduli spaces of conics
Dr. DI CREDICO GIULIA
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandra Aimi
Thesis Title: Energetic Boundary Element Method for 2D Elastodynamics Problems in Time Domain
Dr. LUCENA SÁNCHEZ ESTRELLA
Supervisor: Prof. Guido Sciavicco
Thesis Title: Nuovi metodi matematici e informatici per la ottimizzazione dello sfruttamento dello studio delle risorse naturali
Dr. MOLINARI MARIA CHIARA
Supervisor: Prof. Simona Bonvicini
Thesis Title: Even Cycle decompositions of index 3 in 4-regular line graphs
Dr. PALLOZZI LAVORANTE VINCENZO
Supervisor: Prof. Arrigo Bonisoli
Thesis Title: Geometry over finite fields and its applications
Dr. TRAVAGLINI ROMINA
Supervisor: Prof. Marzia Bisi
Thesis Title: BGK Models and Reaction-Diffusion Equations for Reacting Mixtures of Monatomic and Polyatomic Gases
PhD Program XXXIII Cycle a.y. 2017/2018
Dr. ANCESCHI FRANCESCA
Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Polidoro
Thesis Title: On the Kolmogorov equation: regularity theory & applications
Dr. CARUSO SALVATORE
Supervisor: Prof. Claudio Giberti, Co-supervisor: Prof. Lamberto Rondoni (Politecnico di Torino)
Thesis Title: Dissipation Function Theory: a mathematical foundation of Non Equilibrium Statistical Physics and Response Theory
Dr. CASAROTTI ALEX
Supervisor: Prof. Massimiliano Mella
Thesis Title: Defectiveness and identifiability: a geometric point of view on tensor analysis
Dr. DELLA MARCA ROSSELLA
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Groppi
Thesis Title: Some Challenging Control Problems in Mathematical and Behavioral Epidemiology
Dr. FRANCHINI GIORGIA
Supervisor: Prof. Luca Zanni
Thesis Title: Hyperparameters setting in Stochastic Optimisation Methods
Dr. GALINIER MATHILDE EMMANUELLE
Supervisor: Prof. Marco Prato
Thesis Title: Convolutional neural networks for inverse problems with pseudodifferential operators: an application to limited-angle tomography
Dr. GAVIOLI CHIARA
Supervisor: Prof. Michela Eleuteri
Thesis Title: New perspectives in phase transition problems
Dr. MARTINEZ GARCIA JORGE LUIS
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna
Thesis Title: Real-time scheduling analysis for automotive embedded systems
Dr. MATTIOLO DAVIDE
Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo
Thesis Title: Nowhere-zero Circular Flows and Factors of Graphs – Constructions and Counterexample
Dr. VERUCCHI MICAELA
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna
Thesis Title: A comprehensive analysis of DAG tasks: solutions for modern real-time embedded systems
Dr. ZERAFA JEAN PAUL
Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo
Thesis Title: On the consummate affairs of perfect matchings
PhD Program XXXII Cycle a.y. 2016/2017
Dr. BERTOCCHI CARLA
Supervisor: Prof. Marco Prato
Thesis Title: Interior points meet neural networks: an application to image deblurring
Dr. CRISCI SERENA
Supervisor: Prof. Valeria Ruggiero
Thesis Title: Spectral properties of gradient-based methods for optimizatin problems with special constraints
Dr. DIAZZI LORENZO
Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Polidoro, Co-supervisor: Prof. Daniele Funaro
Thesis Title: Simulazioni numeriche di opportune equazioni dell’elettromagnetismo applicate al caso di un’antenna biconica
Dr. FERNICOLA FRANCO
Supervisor: Prof. Arrigo Bonisoli
Thesis Title: Strutture di incidenza finite con blocchi di forma assegnata
Dr. GIROTTO IVAN
Supervisors: Prof. Lorenzo Pareschi and Prof. Federico Toschi (Eindhoven University), Co-supervisor: Prof. Sebastiano Fabio Schifano
Thesis Title: Physics of Dense Emulsions via High-Performance Fully Resolved Simulations (in cotutelle with Eindhoven University)
Dr. MIRAGLIOTTA ELISA
Supervisor: Prof. Anna Baccaglini-Frank (University of Pisa)
Thesis Title: Geometric prediction: a model to analyze a cognitive process in geometrical problem solving
Dr. MONTAGNANI ALESSANDRO
Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Morandin, Co-supervisor: Prof. Franco Flandoli (University of Pisa)
Thesis Title: A stationary solution of turbulence shell models
Dr. NGUYEN THI NGOC GIAO
Supervisor: Prof. Alberto Calabri
Thesis Title: On plane Cremona maps of small degree and their quadratic lengths
Dr. SPALLANZANI MATTEO
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna, Co-supervisor: Prof. Gian Paolo Leonardi (University of Trento)
Thesis Title: A framework for the analysis of machine learning systems
Dr. TONON REMIS
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Zaccagnini, Co-supervisor: Prof. Sandro Bettin (University of Genova)
Thesis Title: Due problemi di teoria analitica dei numeri: somme armoniche con i primi e distribuzione delle cifre di quozienti fra interi
PhD Program XXXI Cycle a.y. 2015/2016
Dr. CAFFERATA MATTIA
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Zaccagnini, Co-supervisor: Prof. Alberto Perelli
Thesis Title: Estimates for a family of exponential sums with modular coefficients
Dr. DURIGHETTO SARA
Supervisor: Prof. Massimiliano Mella, Co-supervisor: Prof. Marcello Bernardara
Thesis Title: Classical and derived birational geometry
Dr. LAZZARI ELENA
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Teresa Borgato, Co-supervisor: Prof. Graziano Cecchinato
Thesis Title: L’influenza del Flipped Learning sulla motivazione nell’insegnamento-apprendimento della matematica
Dr. MACCHERONI ROBERTA
Supervisor: Prof. Tommaso Pacini (SNS), Co-supervisor: Prof. Alberto Saracco
Thesis Title: The space of totally real submanifolds: complex, symplectic and Riemannian geometry
Dr. MAGNANINI ELENA
Supervisor: Prof. Claudio Giberti, Co-supervisor: Prof. Cristian Giardinà
Thesis Title: A Monte Carlo method for large deviations applied to Erdös-Rényi random graphs
Dr. SPINOSA LEONARDO
Supervisor: Prof. Laiachi El Kaoutit (University of Granada)
Thesis Title: Burnside and Mackey Theories for Abstract Groupoids
PhD Program XXX Cycle a.y. 2014/2015
Dr. BUFFA VITO
Supervisor: Prof. Michele Miranda
Thesis Title: BV Functions in Metric Measure Spaces: Traces and Integration by Parts Formulæ
Dr. COLI VANNA LISA
Supervisor: Prof. Luca Zanni
Thesis Title: Variable metric first–order methods for applications in biomedical imaging
Dr. FARACO GIANLUCA
Supervisor: Prof. Stefano Francaviglia
Thesis Title: The Geometry Awakens: on the relationship between holonomy and hyperbolic structures
Dr. FRANCESCHINI CHIARA
Supervisor: Prof. Cristian Giardinà
Thesis Title: Orthogonal stochastic duality from an algebraic point of view
Dr. GALUPPI FRANCESCO
Supervisor: Prof. Massimiliano Mella
Thesis Title: Waring decompositions via degenerations
Dr. MASCHIO MICHELE
Supervisor: Prof. Adriano Tomassini, Co-supervisor: Prof. Dan Popovici
Thesis Title: Algebraic and analytic aspects in complex geometry
Dr. MENEGATTI GIORGIO
Supervisor: Prof. Michele Miranda
Thesis Title: Sobolev classes and bounded variation functions on domains of Wiener spaces, and applications
Dr. PATERGNANI ELISA
Supervisor: Prof. Luigi Pepe
Thesis Title: Insegnamenti matematici nelle scuole militari in Italia da Eugenio di Savoia a Napoleone
Dr. SAÑUDO OLMEDO IGNACIO
Supervisor: Prof. Marko Bertogna
Thesis Title: Predictable Communication Semantics For Industrial Real-Time Systems
PhD Program XXIX Cycle a.y. 2013/2014
Dr. BONACINI ELENA
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Groppi, Co-supervisor: Dr. Luca Bolzoni (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna)
Thesis Title: Optimal control and stability in complex systems: epidemiological and landscape models
Dr. BONATTO MARCO
Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Menini
Thesis Title: On Quandle Extensions
Dr. CANTARINI MARCO
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Zaccagnini
Thesis Title: On the Cesàro average of some counting functions
Dr. CASTRONUOVO NICCOLÒ
Supervisor: Prof. Arrigo Bonisoli
Thesis Title: Combinatorics of pattern avoiding permutations, Dyck paths and Young tableaux
Dr. CIBELLI GENNARO
Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Polidoro
Thesis Title: Sharp Estimates for Fundamental Solutions of some degenerate Kolmogorov equations arising in Finance
Dr. GAMBINI ALESSANDRO
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Zaccagnini
Thesis Title: Diophantine approximation with prime variables
Dr. REBEGOLDI SIMONE
Supervisor: Prof. Marco Prato, Co-supervisor: Prof. Silvia Bonettini
Thesis Title: Variable metric line–search based methods for nonconvex optimization
Dr. SARACCO GIORGIO
Supervisor: Prof. Gian Paolo Leonardi
Thesis Title: Fine properties of Cheeger sets and the Prescribed Mean Curvature problem in weakly regular domains
Dr. SPAGNUOLO ALESSANDRO
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Teresa Borgato, Co-supervisor: Prof. José Manuel Serrano González-Tejero
Thesis Title: The effects of the equality parameter on mathematics students’ performance. A comparative analysis of Peer Education interventions in teaching-learning of linear and quadratic functions
Dr. ZANELLA MATTIA
Supervisor: Prof. Lorenzo Pareschi
Thesis Title: Boltzmann-type and mean-field modeling of social dynamics: numerics, control, uncertainty quantification