Sara Venturini

Sara Venturini

Hi! I am Sara Venturini. I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Senseable City Lab. I am interested in everything concerning networks!

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A new Postdoctoral Fellow

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Super excited to start this new experience as a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Senseable City Lab in Cambridge, Boston! I am sure that this will be an amazing opportunity for me since I truly believe in interdisciplinary research.

I earned a PhD in Mathematics!

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I still can not believe that I earned a PhD in Mathematics! I have learned a lot from this journey and I have been very lucky to meet incredible people along it!

ICML Grant

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Super-happy that I was awarded the ICML grant for registration and accommodation, which covers free conference registration and free 5 nights stay to attend the Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2023 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Paper accepted to ICML!

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I am too enthusiastic that our work
Learning the right layers: a data-driven layer-aggregation strategy for semi-supervised learning on multilayer graphs
Sara Venturini, Andrea Cristofari, Francesco Rinaldi and Francesco Tudisco

has been accepted at ICML, one of the leading international academic conferences in machine learning!

Going back home

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Mixed feelings, returning to Italy after 6 months in America. This has been really an amazing experience! I can never thank enough the AccelNet-MultiNet program, Santo Fortunato, Satyaki Sikdar, and my supervisors Francesco Rinaldi and Francesco Tudisco. I have learned so much both in the personal and professional parts. It sounds like a cliché, but it changed me. I will never forget all the people and friends of the department. I am going back home. But do we have just one?

Collabathon: Rewired Networks in Portland, Maine

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I partecipated in the collabathonon Rewired Networks, in Portland, Maine. This was a 3-days collaboration with early reserachers, with the aim of analyze, implement and compare techniques to rewire networks. The result will be a python library (https://github.com/netsiphd/netrw). Too many amazing experiences and too many wonderful people in these months!

I just arrived at Indiana University in Bloomington!

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I just arrived at Indiana University in Bloomington! I will stay here till July.
I am a fellow of the AccelNet-Multinet exchange program, and I will collaborate with Prof. Santo Fortunato (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA) on a project concerning multilayer networks to study the Science of Science.
I am so excited to start this adventure!
If you are interested in any kind of information regarding the exchange program, feel free to contact me!

I finally made my website!

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Hi! I am Sara Venturini. I am a PhD student of Computational Mathematics at the University of Padua. I am interested in everything concerning networks!

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Teaching assistant

University of Padova, Science Department </br> March 2020 - June 2020

Didactic support and preparation of exercises for the course of Mathematics 2 of the Degree in Materials Sciences.

Teaching assistant

University of Padova, Agronomy Department </br> May 2021 - Sep. 2021

Didactic support and preparation of exercises for all the courses of Mathematics of the Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment.

Teaching assistant

University of Padova, Agronomy Department </br> October 2022 - June 2023

Didactic support for the course of Mathematics of the Department of Territory and Agro-Forestry Systems.

Research Mentoring and Co-Supervision

University of Padova, Padova, Italy </br> January 2023 - December 2023

  • Angelica Crepaldi, “Louvain-like methods for community detection in multilayer hypergraphs”, Master Thesis in Mathematics, with Prof. Francesco Rinaldi
  • Matteo Bergamaschi, “Direct Search Methods for Influence Maximization problems”, Master Thesis in Data Science, with Prof. Francesco Rinaldi
  • Ivan Piacere, “Community detection methods applied to chromatin tracing”, Master Thesis in Data Science, with Prof. Francesco Rinaldi and Irene Farabella (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), ongoing
  • Denis Duval (Télécom Paris), “Model pruning via bilevel optimization”, Master Thesis in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, with Prof. Francesco Rinaldi, ongoing
  • Balthazar Mignard (Télécom Paris), “A case study on severe malaria disease in Europe”, Master Thesis in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, with Prof. Francesco Rinaldi and Ascoli Tommaso, D’Abramo Alessandra, Nicastri Emanuele (Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive “L.Spallanzani”), ongoing