Teaching

Doctoral students

2024

Francesco Bombassei De Bona. Working title: “Private and Explainable Affective Computing”. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.

2023

Dario Fenoglio. Working title: “Federated Learning for Digital Healthcare”. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.
Gabriele Domonici. Working title: “Explanabile AI for Digital Healthcare”. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.

2026

Zijun Zhou. Multi-modal Cognitive Load Estimation using Wearables. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana.
Arezo Massum. Cognitive Load Estimation using EEG signals. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana.

2025

Swathy Cheruvalath. Explainable AI for Predicting Student Exam Performance. Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (H-BRS). Co-supervision with prof. Teena Chakkalayil Hassan.
Ana Krstevska. Uncertainty-aware Diffusion Models. Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. Co-supervision with Gasper Slapnicar.

2024

Eleonora Bardelli. PrivAffect: Privacy-aware Sensing for Affect Recognition. 2024. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.

2023

Davide Casnici. Federated Learning Earables-based Human Activity Recognition. 2023. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.
Aurora Spagnol. Counterfactual Explanations for Unsupervised Learning. 2023. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.

2022

Riccardo Corrias. Cohort-based human mobility modelling. 2022. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.
Ivan Fontana. Generative Adversarial Networks for Human mobility Trajectory Generation. 2022. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.
Piotr Romachov. Explainable AI through counterfactual explanations. 2022. Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Buenos Aires (exchange student at USI). Co-supervision with prof. Vanina Martinez and prof. Marc Langheinrich.
Stefan Kalabkov. Deep transfer learning for human activity recognition using a wrist-worn accelerometer. 2022. Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. Co-supervision with prof. Matjaz Gams.

2021

Castro Elizondo Jose Ezequiel. Federated human mobility modeling. 2021. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.
Alessandro Pogliaghi. Multi-task Learning for the Joint Recognition of User Identity and Affective States. 2021. Faculty of informatics. Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Silvia Santini and dr. Elena Di Lascio.
Jannis Strecker. Understanding Purpose-Driven Use ofInterpersonal Location Sharingin Mobile Apps. 2021. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.

2023

Gobbetti Alessandro. Multimodal Federated Learning for Sensor Data. 2023. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.
Mattias Formo. Federated Cognitive Load Estimation. 2023. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.

2021

Holenstein Roland. Privacy-aware human mobility modelling. 2021. Faculty of Informatics, Università della svizzera italiana. Co-supervision with prof. Marc Langheinrich.

2019

Timotej Knez. Analysis of Physiological Signal Elicited by Mobile Gaming. 2019. Faculty of Computer and Information Science. University of Ljubljana. Co-supervision with prof. Veljko Pejovic. For his thesis, Timotej won the Faculty’s Prešeren Prize