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Embassy of Italy Award
2024
WINNER
Luca Luceri
Northeastern University
Dr. Luca Luceri is awarded the Embassy of Italy Award for his work on AI-driven approaches for countering online harms on social media. His research tackles issues like online manipulation, misinformation, and supporting vulnerable users. He develops computational tools to detect malicious activities and to enhance the resilience of information ecosystems, contributing to AI for social good.
Luca Luceri has an extensive background in computer science, with a focus on using AI and machine learning for social good. He began his academic journey with a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari (2009-2012), followed by a Master's from the Polytechnic University of Milan (2012-2014). He then pursued a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Bern, Switzerland (2015-2020), which set the stage for his future research.
After earning his Ph.D., Luca joined the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC) as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023), later becoming a Research Scientist (2023-2024). Currently, he serves as a Research Assistant Professor at USC and Lead Scientist at ISI, where his work centers on AI, computational social science, and human-machine interaction.
Luca is co-Principal Investigator of the DARPA-funded INCAS project, focused on detecting and tracking geopolitical influence campaigns, and the Swiss NSF-funded CARISMA project, which develops computational models to support policy recommendations for mitigating online harms. Before his USC tenure, he worked as a Research Scientist at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (2020-2022), further advancing his expertise in data and network science.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luceriluc/ https://www.isi.edu/directory/lluceri/