Doctoral Consortium Program

Welcome to the AIxIA 2026 Doctoral Consortium program. All paper presentations will take place in Room B3 at the Accademia di Belle Arti "Pietro Vannucci" (see the rooms map below). Below you can find the detailed schedule of the paper presentations.

Venues
Aula Magna Università Via Francesco Innamorati, 4, 06123 Perugia PG
Sala dei Notari Piazza IV Novembre, 06123 Perugia PG
Auditorium San Francesco Auditorium San Francesco al Prato, Via S. Francesco, 4, 06123 Perugia PG
Accademia di Belle Arti Piazza San Francesco al Prato, 5, 06123 Perugia PG
Oratorio di San Francesco dei Nobili Giardino Pensile
Oratorio di San Francesco dei Nobili, Via degli Sciri, 6, 06123 Perugia PG
Mappa delle aule - Primo Piano e Piano Terra

Rooms Map - Accademia di Belle Arti "Pietro Vannucci"

Time # Session Schedule / Paper / Activity Room
10:30 - 13:00 S1 Session 1
10:30
Opening
10:35
Sustainability Solutions: The Power of Combinatorial Optimization
Fabrizio Fagiolo
10:52
Toward Symbiotic Conversational Agents Based on More Efficient Large Language Models
Michele Paolicelli
11:09
Towards a Domain-Aware Digital Twin Framework for Quality of Life: Multimodal Sensing and Interpretable Estimation
Maria Grazia Miccoli
11:26
Tensor Networks for Quantum and Classical Machine Learning: Exploiting Expressibility and Interpretability
Vito Nicola Losavio
11:43
Modular Pre-training with End-to-End Fine-Tuning: A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Framework for High-Precision Industrial Pick-and-Place
Alessandro Venaruzzo
12:00
Beyond Scalarized Trade-offs: A Position on Machine Unlearning as Multi-Objective Optimization
Nicolò Vescera
B3
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch and Doctoral Consortium posters Oratorio di San Francesco dei Nobili
14:30 - 16:30 S2 Session 2
14:30
Mental Health Assessment through Human Conversations: Challenges and Possible Solutions
Alessandra Grossi
14:47
Mind the Gap: Ontology-Grounded Planning over Incomplete Robot Knowledge
Emanuele Musumeci
15:04
Synthetic Image Generation to Address Data Scarcity in Cultural Heritage Conservation: Challenges and Opportunities
Anna Rovedatti
15:21
Towards Reliable Machine Learning and AI Modelling on Longitudinal Multimodal Data: The Role of Data Quality and Protocol Design
Claudia Rabaioli
15:38
Machine Learning for the Combinatorial Optimization of Public Transport Systems
Andrea Cardia
15:55
Thinking Outside the (Feature) Box: Towards Robust, Efficient, and Deployable Healthcare Foundation Models
Francesca Filice
16:12
Closing
B3