The Global Forum on AI for Humanity (GFAIH), invited talk and panel in the session "AI & Human values: inequalities, biases, fairness, representation of minorities, gender balance" together with Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Kate Crawford, Laurence Devillers, and Eric Salobir.
Keynote "AI and Blockchain: Future Convergence and Synergies" at the Public Hearing on Initial Coin Offerings organized by CONSOB at Bocconi University, May 21, 2019.
"The Responsibility Challenge for Data"SIGMOD'19 panel. Together with Tina Eliassi-Rad, Lise Getoor, Krishna Gummadi, and Julia Stoyanovich. Panel organizer: H. V. Jagadish.
"Top-10 Data Mining Case Studies"ICDM'10 panel. Together with Ashok Srivasta, Bart Goethals, Rayid Ghani, Christos Faloutsos, Longbing Cao, Osmar Zaiane, Rong Duan, Paul Beinat, and Geoff McLachlan. Panel organizers: Gabor Melli and Xindong Wu.
"Social Networks and Data Mining: Where’s the Beef?"ICDM'08 panel. Together with Tanya Berger-Wolf, Bettina Berendt, Elena Ferrari, Jiawei Han, and Dino Pedreschi. Panel organizer: Jean-François Boulicaut.
F. Bonchi Mining Information Propagation Data The 6th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications. November 28, 2017, Lyon, France.
(2026) Stefano Di Giovenale, "The Chromatin Network: A Modeling Strategy To Decipher Epigenetic Dynamics", January 2026, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
(2025) Marco Minici, "Navigating the Algorithmic Society: Computational Tools for Understanding Online Dynamics", May 2025, National PhD in AI @ University of Pisa, Italy (Co-supervision with Giuseppe Manco).
(2025) Federico Cinus, "Modeling, Detecting, and Mitigating Harmful Phenomena in Social Platforms", May 2025, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
(2024) Carlo Abrate, "The Right to Explanation: Counterfactual Language in Algorithmic Recourse", May 2024, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
(2024) Gabriele D'Acunto, "Learning Multiscale e Non-stationary Causal Structures: Methods and Applications", May 2024, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
(2023) Tommaso Lanciano, "Dense Subgraph Mining: Novel Concepts and Real-world Applications", May 2023, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
(2020) Francesco Fabbri, "Algorithmic Bias in Graph-Based Recommender Systems", October 2023, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (Co-supervision with Carlos Castillo).
(2020) Edoardo Galimberti, "Substructures in multilayer, temporal, and signed networks: methods and applications", March 2020, University of Turin, Italy (Co-supervision with Giancarlo Ruffo).
(2018) Ioanna Tsalouchidou, "Temporal Analysis of Large Dynamic Graphs", October 2018, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (Co-supervision with Ricardo Baeza-Yates) .
(2016) Cigdem Aslay, "From Viral Marketing to Social Advertising: Ad Allocation under Social Influence", December 2016, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (Co-supervision with Ricardo Baeza-Yates).
(2016) Yasir Mehmood, "Modeling the Roles of Individuals and Groups in the Dynamics of Information Propagation", April 2016, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (Co-supervision with Ricardo Baeza-Yates).
(2009) Michele Berlingerio, "Graph and Network Data: Mining the Temporal Dimension", December 2009, IMT, Lucca, Italy (Co-supervision with Fosca Giannotti).
Ph.D. Committees
(2026) Flavio Giorgi, "Graphs in Action: From
Real-World Systems to Explainable AI and Beyond", February 2026, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
(2025) Mario Alfonso Prado Romero, "Counterfactual Explainability in Graphs: Foundations, Generative
Methods, and Ensemble Techniques", March 2025, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy.
(2025) Petros Petsinis, "Combinatorial Optimization for Diffusion and Search in Graphs", March 2025, Aarhus University, Denmark.
(2022) George Panagopoulos, "Learning Influence Representations: Methods and Applications", February 2022, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
(2021) Eliana Pastor, "Pattern-based algorithms for Explainable AI", October 2021, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
(2021) Lorenzo Dell'Amico, "Spectral Methods for Graph Clustering", October 2021, University of Grenoble, France.
(2020) Jose Mena Roldan, "Modelling Uncertainty in Black-box Classification Systems", December 2020, University of Barcelona, Spain.
(2019) Leonardo Gutiérrez Gómez, "Machine Learning On Complex Networks: Dynamical Fingerprints, Embeddings and Feature Engineering", October 2019, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
(2018) Muhammad Aamir Saleem, "Location analytics for location-based social networks", May 2018, Aalborg University, Denmark.
(2017) Yllka Velaj, "Information spreading with network augmentation", November 2017, Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Italy.
(2017) Mauro Coletto, "Analysis of Polarized Communities in Online Social Networks", March 2017, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy.
(2016) Corrado Monti, "Modeling and Mining Complex Networks with Feature-Rich Nodes", December 2016, University of Milan, Italy.
(2015) Eduardo Graell, "Biased Behavior in Web Activities", May 2015, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.
(2013) Diego Sáez Trumper, "Finding Relevant People in Online Social Networks", December 2013, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.
(2013) Ida Mele, "Web Usage Mining and its Applications to Web Search and Recommendation", December 2013, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
(2013) Nhat Hai Phan, "Mining Object Movement Patterns from Trajectory Data", October 2013, LIRMM, Montpellier, France.
(2012) Thi Kim Ngan Nguyen, "Generalizing Association Rules in N-ary Relations: Application to Dynamic Graph Analysis", October 2012, INSA, Lyon, France.
(2011) David Laniado, "Social production of knowledge by online communities", November 2011, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
(2010) Loic Cerf, "Constrained-based mining of closed patterns in noisy n-ary relations", July 2010, INSA, Lyon, France.
(2010) Fabricio Benevenuto, "An Empirical Analysis of Interactions in Online Social Networks", March 2010, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
(2009) Barbara Poblete, "Query-Based Data Mining for the Web", October 2009, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.