Luca Vassio

ERC sectors

SDG

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

PhD

• Big data processing and programming. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI. Teaching assistant
• Scienza dei dati applicata alle reti complesse. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI. Main teacher
• Data science for networks. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI. Main teacher

Master of Science

• Internship. A.A. 2025/26, CYBERSECURITY. Titolare del corso
• Machine learning for networking. A.A. 2025/26, CYBERSECURITY ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
• ICT for smart mobility. A.A. 2025/26, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Titolare del corso
• ICT for smart mobility. A.A. 2024/25, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Titolare del corso
• Machine learning for networking. A.A. 2024/25, CYBERSECURITY. Titolare del corso
• ICT for smart mobility. A.A. 2023/24, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Titolare del corso
• Machine learning for networking. A.A. 2023/24, COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
• Big data for Internet applications. A.A. 2023/24, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
• ICT for smart mobility. A.A. 2022/23, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Titolare del corso
• Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2022/23, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Collaboratore del corso
• Big data for Internet applications. A.A. 2022/23, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
• Interdisciplinary projects. A.A. 2022/23, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
• Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2021/22, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Collaboratore del corso
• Big data for Internet applications. A.A. 2021/22, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
• Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2020/21, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Collaboratore del corso
• Big data for Internet applications. A.A. 2020/21, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
• Vodafone IoT Academy. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
• Network measurement laboratory. A.A. 2019/20, COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA TELEMATICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI). Collaboratore del corso
• Big data for Internet applications. A.A. 2019/20, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso

Bachelor of Science

• Basi di dati. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Dati, algoritmi e le frontiere dell'informatica - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Dati, algoritmi e le frontiere dell'informatica - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Dati, algoritmi e le frontiere dell'informatica - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Basi di dati. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
• Basi di dati. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso

• Artificial Intelligence for Network Security (DET)
• Machine Learning for Network measurement and management (DET)
• Performance of network protocols and services (DET)

• DBDM - Database and Data Mining Group (DAUIN)
• TNG (DET)

Projects funded by commercial contracts

• Predictive Maintenance for on-road Vehicles e Telemetry Analysis, (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• AISN – AI Secured Networks, (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Contratto di ricerca tra il Politecnico (DAUIN) e ANTI FINANCIAL CRIME DIGITAL HUB S.c.a.r.l. per la realizzazione del Progetto di Ricerca “Linee guida per lo sviluppo/test di Modelli di ML con dati anonimizzati e rilascio in produzione con dati in chiaro” , (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Modelli statistici, Data Analytics e Machine Learning, (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Modelli statistici, Data Analytics e Machine Learning, (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• AI-Assisted Network Security, (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• “Modelli statistici, data analytics e machine learning (year 2020)”, “Fog computing e opportunistic networking (year 2020)” e “Design e implementazione di funzionalità firmware avanzate (year 2020)”, (2020-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research

• Alberto Verna. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (40^th cycle, 2024-in progress)
  Research subject: Privacy on the Internet: measurements and novel approaches
  
  Cybersecurity
  Data science, Computer vision and AI
  Cybersecurity
  Data science, Computer vision and AI
• Ali Yassine. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (40^th cycle, 2024-in progress)
• Giordano Paoletti. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (39^th cycle, 2023-in progress)
  Research subject: Analyzing Online Social Networks: Implications for Cybersecurity and Misinformation
  
  Cybersecurity
  Data science, Computer vision and AI
  Cybersecurity
  Data science, Computer vision and AI

• Paoletti, Giordano; Almeida, Jussara M.; Vassio, Luca; Gonçalves, Marcos André; Mellia, ... (2025)
  Join the Chat: How Curiosity Sparks Participation in Telegram Groups. In: International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Copenhagen (DK), June 23–26, 2025, pp. 1493-1509. ISSN 2334-0770
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Perlo, Alessandro; Paoletti, Giordano; Jha, Nikhil; Vassio, Luca; MARQUES DE ALMEIDA ... (2025)
  Topic-wise Exploration of the Telegram Group-verse. In: 15th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2025) in conjunction with The Web Conference 2025, Sidney (AUS), 28 April - 2 May 2025, pp. 1792-1801. ISBN: 9798400713316
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Paoletti, Giordano; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Almeida, Jussara (2025)
  CoDÆN: Benchmarks and Comparison of Evolutionary Community Detection Algorithms for Dynamic Networks. In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON THE WEB. ISSN 1559-114X
  Contributo su Rivista
• Cavallo, Andrea; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca (2024)
  Detecting Edge and Node Anomalies with Temporal GNNs. In: 3rd GNNet Workshop - Graph Neural Networking Workshop, Los Angeles, California (USA), December 9, 2024, pp. 7-13. ISBN: 979-8-4007-1254-8
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Huang, Kai; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca (2024)
  Incremental Federated Host Embeddings for Network Telescopes Traffic Analysis. In: IEEE 44th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jersey City, NJ (USA), 23-23 July 2024, pp. 41-46. ISBN: 979-8-3503-5471-3
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Huang, Kai; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca (2024)
  Dynamic Cluster Analysis to Detect and Track Novelty in Network Telescopes. In: 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Vienna (AUT), 08-12 July 2024, pp. 287-296. ISBN: 979-8-3503-6729-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Benedetto, Irene; La Quatra, Moreno; Cagliero, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Trevisan, Martino (2024)
  TASP: Topic-based abstractive summarization of Facebook text posts. In: EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, vol. 225, Part B. ISSN 0957-4174
  Contributo su Rivista
• Boffa, Matteo; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Valentim, ... (2024)
  LogPrécis: Unleashing language models for automated malicious log analysis. In: COMPUTERS & SECURITY, vol. 141. ISSN 0167-4048
  Contributo su Rivista
• Paoletti, Giordano; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Almeida, Jussara M. (2024)
  Benchmarking Evolutionary Community Detection Algorithms in Dynamic Networks. In: 4th Workshop on Graphs and more Complex structures for Learning and Reasoning (GCLR) at AAAI 2024, Vancouver (CDN), 2024
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Milan, Giulia; Houidi, ... (2024)
  Cross-network Embeddings Transfer for Traffic Analysis. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT, vol. 21, pp. 2686-2699. ISSN 1932-4537
  Contributo su Rivista
• Benedetto, Irene; La Quatra, Moreno; Cagliero, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Trevisan, Martino (2023)
  Transformer-based Prediction of Emotional Reactions to Online Social Network Posts. In: Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA), Toronto (CAN), July 9–14, 2023, pp. 354-364
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Cognigni, Cecilia; De Lorenzis, Federico; Lamberti, Fabrizio; Mellia, Marco; Vallero, ... (2023)
  Reading(&)Machine. Un modello prototipale per la promozione della lettura in biblioteca. In: BIBLIOTECHE OGGI TRENDS, vol. 9, pp. 46-56. ISSN 2421-3810
  Contributo su Rivista
• Galante, Franco; Vassio, Luca; Garetto, Michele; Leonardi, Emilio (2023)
  Modeling communication asymmetry and content personalization in online social networks. In: ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MEDIA, vol. 37-38, pp. 1-20. ISSN 2468-6964
  Contributo su Rivista
• Gioacchini, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Ben Houidi, Zied; Rossi, ... (2023)
  i-DarkVec: Incremental Embeddings for Darknet Traffic Analysis. In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY, vol. 23, pp. 1-28. ISSN 1533-5399
  Contributo su Rivista
• Speciale, A.; Vallero, G.; Vassio, L.; Mellia, M. (2023)
  Recommendation Systems in Libraries: an Application with Heterogeneous Data Sources. In: 7th International workshop on Data Analytics solutions for Real-LIfe APplications, Ioannina, Greece), March 28-March 31, 2023. ISSN 1613-0073
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Gioacchini, Luca; Cavallo, Andrea; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca (2023)
  Exploring Temporal GNN Embeddings for Darknet Traffic Analysis. In: 2nd GNNet Workshop - Graph Neural Networking Workshop, Paris, France, 8 December, 2023, pp. 31-36. ISBN: 9798400704482
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Ciociola, Alessandro; Giordano, Danilo; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco (2023)
  Data Driven Scalability and Profitability Analysis in Free Floating Electric Car Sharing Systems. In: INFORMATION SCIENCES, vol. 621, pp. 545-561. ISSN 0020-0255
  Contributo su Rivista
• Cavallo, Andrea; Grohnfeldt, Claas; Russo, Michele; Lovisotto, Giulio; Vassio, Luca (2023)
  2-hop Neighbor Class Similarity (2NCS): A graph structural metric indicative of graph neural network performance. In: 3rd Workshop on Graphs and more Complex structures for Learning and Reasoning (GCLR) at AAAI 2023, Washington DC, USa
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Jha, Nikhil; Vassio, Luca; Trevisan, Martino; Leonardi, Emilio; Mellia, Marco (2023)
  Practical anonymization for data streams: z-anonymity and relation with k-anonymity. In: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION, vol. 159. ISSN 0166-5316
  Contributo su Rivista
• Pinna, Maurizio; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco (2022)
  Demand Model Generation from Traces: Adaptive KDE Data-Driven Optimization. In: 6th International Conference on Smart Grid and Smart Cities (ICSGSC), 22-24 October 2022, pp. 48-54. ISBN: 978-1-6654-8783-2
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Caso, Paola; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca (2022)
  Disentangling the Information Flood on OSNs: Finding Notable Posts and Topics. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), Orlando, Florida (USA), 28 November 2022 - 01 December 2022, pp. 1168-1175. ISBN: 979-8-3503-4609-1
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Gomes Ferreira, Carlos Henrique; Murai, Fabricio; Silva, Ana P. C.; Trevisan, Martino; ... (2022)
  On network backbone extraction for modeling online collective behavior. In: PLOS ONE, vol. 17. ISSN 1932-6203
  Contributo su Rivista
• Jha, Nikhil; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco (2022)
  The Internet with Privacy Policies: Measuring The Web Upon Consent. In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON THE WEB, vol. 16. ISSN 1559-1131
  Contributo su Rivista
• Vassio, Luca; Garetto, Michele; Leonardi, Emilio; Chiasserini, Carla Fabiana (2022)
  Mining and modelling temporal dynamics of followers' engagement on online social networks. In: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND MINING, vol. 12. ISSN 1869-5450
  Contributo su Rivista
• Vassio, L.; Giordano, D.; Kim, J.; Crowcroft, J. (2022)
  Message from the organizers of WAIN. In: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION REVIEW, vol. 49, pp. 92-92. ISSN 0163-5999
  Contributo su Rivista
• Boffa, Matteo; Milan, Giulia; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Ben Houidi, ... (2022)
  Towards NLP-based Processing of Honeypot Logs. In: 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Genoa, Italy, 06-10 June 2022, pp. 314-321. ISBN: 978-1-6654-9560-8
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Jha, Nikhil; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Traverso, Stefano; ... (2022)
  A PIMS Development Kit for New Personal Data Platforms. In: IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, vol. 26, pp. 79-84. ISSN 1089-7801
  Contributo su Rivista
• Arditti, Laura; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Lazzari, Alberto De; Danese, Alberto (2022)
  User Value in Modern Payment Platforms: A Graph Approach. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), Orlando, Florida, 28 November - 1 December 2022, pp. 71-78. ISBN: 979-8-3503-4609-1
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Boffa, M.; Vassio, L.; Mellia, M.; Drago, I.; Milan, G.; Houidi, Z. B.; Rossi, D. (2022)
  On using pretext tasks to learn representations from network logs. In: NativeNi '22: 1st International Workshop on Native Network Intelligence, Roma, Italy, 9 December 2022, pp. 21-26. ISBN: 9781450398879
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Bertone, Fabio; Vassio, Luca; Trevisan, Martino (2021)
  The stock exchange of influencers: a financial approach for studying fanbase variation trends. In: 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Virtual Event, Netherlands, November 8–11, 2021, pp. 431-435. ISBN: 9781450391283
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)

• Honeypot Entity And Method Of Operating The Same. international Patent
  Inventors: Idilio Drago Marco Mellia Giulia Milan Luca Vassio