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