Simone Monaco, PhD Student
Simone is a PhD student at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering. He obtained the Master’s degree jointly at Politecnico di Torino and Université Paris-Saclay (Paris Sud) on Physics of Complex Systems. He is currently working on Graph and Convolutional neural network applications to different domains. His research interest relates to theory-based machine learning strategies, i.e. the integration of data-agnostic prior knowledge to deep learning models to enhance their predictions.
Research Interests
- Graph Neural Networks
- Theory-based machine learning
- Knowledge graph embedding

Scientific publications
S Monaco, D Apiletti, G Malnati
Electronics 11 (18), 2850
S Monaco, D Apiletti
European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, 256-265
S Monaco, N Bussola, S Butto, D Sona, D Apiletti, G Jurman, E Viola, …
2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 3923-3926
S Monaco, S Greco, A Farasin, L Colomba, D Apiletti, P Garza, …
Applied Sciences 11 (22), 11060
A complete list of publications can be found here.
Bachelor of Science
- Introduction to databases. A.A. 2021/22, Ingegneria informatica (computer engineering). Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Data management and visualization. A.A. 2021/22, Data science and engineering. Teaching assistant
- Data management and visualization. A.A. 2022/23, Data science and engineering. Teaching assistant
- Big data: architectures and data analytics. A.A. 2022/23, Computer engineering. Teaching assistant