Giulia Fracastoro

Associate Professor (L. 240)
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET)

+39 0110907752 / 7752
giulia.fracastoro@polito.it

Profile

Keywords

Artificial intelligence

Complex networks

Control and optimization

Deep learning

Graph neural networks

Machine learning

Scientific branch

IINF-04/A - Systems and Control Engineering
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Skills

ERC sectors

PE1_20 - Control theory, optimisation and operational research

PE6_11 - Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing (e.g. speech, image, video)

PE7_8 - Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things, sensor networks, networks of robots

PE7_10 - Robotics

Awards and Honors

Best Student Paper Award - IEEE ICIP conferred by IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (2015)
Best Paper Award conferred by Picture Coding Symposium (2016)
Best Paper Award IEEE ICIP 2019 conferred by IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2019, Italy (2019)
Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award conferred by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, United States (2024)

Editorial boards

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING OVER NETWORKS (2023-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING (2021-2024), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series

Teaching

Collegi of the degree programmes

Collegio di Ingegneria Elettronica, delle Telecomunicazioni e Fisica. Componente
Collegio di Ingegneria Informatica, del Cinema e Meccatronica. Componente

Teachings

Master of Science

Discrete Event Systems. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Modelli e sistemi a eventi discreti. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Modelli e sistemi a eventi discreti. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Optimization for machine learning. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Titolare del corso
Modelli e sistemi a eventi discreti. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Modelli e sistemi a eventi discreti. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso

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Bachelor of Science

Controlli automatici. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Titolare del corso
Controlli automatici. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA DELL'AUTOVEICOLO. Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA DELL'AUTOVEICOLO. Collaboratore del corso

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Research

Research groups

Automatica (DET)

Research projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

ALPINE-STEM: Alleanza Transfrontaliera per l’Integrazione in Ingegneria dei Sistemi e STEM, (2026-2029) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - Cooperazione Territoriale Europea

Supervised PhD students

Luca Savant Aira. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (38^th cycle, 2022-in progress)
Thesis: Deep Learning for 3D World Representations

Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science

Multimedia Signal Processing

Publications

PoliTO co-authors

Latest publications View all publications in Porto@Iris

Calafiore, Giuseppe; El Ghaoui, Laurent; Fracastoro, Giulia; Tsai, Alicia (2025)
Financial Data Science. S.L., Cambridge University Press, P. 400. ISBN: 9781009432283
Libro
Calafiore, Giuseppe C.; Fracastoro, Giulia; Proskurnikov, Anton V. (2025)
Default robustness and worst-case losses in financial networks. In: APPLIED NETWORK SCIENCE, vol. 10. ISSN 2364-8228
Contributo su Rivista
Zino, Lorenzo; Fracastoro, Giulia; Proskurnikov, Anton V.; Calafiore, Giuseppe Carlo (2025)
On the influence of network structure on the resilience and losses of financial systems. In: JOURNAL OF MECHANISM AND INSTITUTION DESIGN, vol. 10, pp. 97-122. ISSN 2399-844X
Contributo su Rivista
Zino, Lorenzo; Proskurnikov, Anton V.; Fracastoro, Giulia; Calafiore, Giuseppe Carlo (2025)
Structure and Shock Resistance in Financial Networks: A Numerical Study. In: 13 th International Conference on Complex Networks & Their Applications, Istanbul (Tur), 10-12 Dicembre 2024, pp. 103-114. ISSN 1860-949X. ISBN: 9783031824302
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Fracastoro, Giulia; Fosson, Sophie M.; Migliorati, Andrea; Calafiore, Giuseppe C. (2025)
Playing the Lottery With Concave Regularizers for Sparse Trainable Neural Networks. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS, pp. 1-11. ISSN 2162-237X
Contributo su Rivista

Knowledge Valorisation

Technology transfer

Methods and apparatuses for enconding and decoding digital images or video streams. national Patent
Inventors: Giulia Fracastoro
Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding digital images or video streams. national and international Patent
Inventors: Giulia Fracastoro Enrico Magli
Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding digital images through superpixels. national and international Patent
Inventors: Giulia Fracastoro Enrico Magli
Apparatuses and methods for encoding and decoding images. national and international Patent
Inventors: Giulia Fracastoro Enrico Magli