Dr.Arianna Pavone, PhD

Reserch Fellow at University of Pisa - Department of Computer Science

Biography

Dr.Arianna Pavone is Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy, and is part of the bioinformatics research group of Prof. Corrado Priami. She is also data scientist at GlaxoSmithKline (Siena) and is member of the governing board of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (ASIC). Her background is philosophy, cognitive science and computer science. In 2021 she earn a PhD in Cognitive Science at Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, under the guidance of Prof. Alessio Plebe. In 2017 she earn a Laurea in Cognitive Science, at University of Messina. Her bachelor's degree was earned in 2015 at the University of Catania, in Humanities.

During his university studies, he began to collaborate with the research group of Prof. Simone Faro at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Catania, to which he owes his background on Computation, Text Processing and Machine Learning. During the second level degree course he deepened his studies in Cognitive Science, working on the modeling of biologically palusible artificial brain networks under the supervision of Prof. Alessio Plebe.

Research activities carried out during her doctoral course, under the supervision of Prof. Plebe, led Arianna to deal with more specific issues of philosophy of science. Now her work explores questions located at the intersection of philosophy, technoscience and culture, and her research interests include media philosophy and theory, computation and artificial intelligence.

Research Interest

Recent Events (from 2019)

  • AISC Mideterm 2022 - Parma
    Participation as speaker at the Annual Midterm Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC Midterm 2022): the affective Turn in Cognitive Science, held from 22 to 24 May 2022. An article entitled: "Emotional Similarity in the Semantic Pointer Architecture", by Arianna Pavone and Alessio Plebe.
  • PinT 2022 - Warsaw
    Participation as speaker at the Workshop "Philosophy in Technology" (PinT 2022), organized by Warsaw University of Technology, 31 of May 2022. An article entitled "On the Controversial Analogy Between biological and Artificial Cognitive Systems", by Arianna Pavone.
  • AISC 2021 - Messina
    Participation as speaker at the XVII Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC 2021): Post-Neuroscience Times for Cognitive Science Circa 2021?, Held from 13 to 15 December 2021. An article entitled "The Question of Values: From Science to Artificial Intelligence", by Arianna Pavone.
  • NCTA 2021 - Online
    Participation as speaker at the 13th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Application (NCTA 2021), part of IJCCI the 13th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, held from 25 to 27 October 2021. An article entitled Revising Conceptual Similarity was presented at the conference by Neural Networks, by Alessio Plebe and Arianna Pavone.
  • NCTA 2020 - Online
    Participation as speaker at the 12th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Application (NCTA 2020), part of IJCCI the 12th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, held from 2 to 4 November 2020. An article entitled Neural Semantic Pointers was presented at the conference in Context, by Alessio Plebe and Arianna Pavone.
  • AISC 2019 - Roma Tre
    Participation as speaker at the XVI AISC Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC 2019): The Complexity of Cognition: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Human Behavior, held on 11-13 December 2019 at the University of Roma Tre. An article entitled Visual context in semantic ambiguities: a neural model, by Arianna Pavone and Alessio Plebe, was presented at the conference.

Recent Publications (from 2020)

Dr.Arianna Pavone actively publishes between computer science, cognitive science and the philosophy of science. The following are recent publications, post-2020.

  • Simone Faro, Francesco Pio Marino and Arianna Pavone: Improved Characters Distance Sampling for Online and Offline Text Searching. Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier (2022). DOI : 10.1016/j.tcs.2022.12.034
  • Arianna Pavone and Alessio Plebe: How Neurons in Deep Models Relate with Neurons in the Brain. Algorithms, MDPI. vol.14(9), pp.272 (2021). DOI : 10.3390/a14090272
  • Simone Faro, Francesco Pio Marino, Arianna Pavone: Enhancing Characters Distance Text Sampling by Condensed Alphabets. Proceedings of the 22nd Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS), CEUR Workshop series, vol. 3072, pp.1-15 (2021). Online version.
  • Simone Faro, Francesco Pio Marino, Arianna Pavone: Efficient Online String Matching Based on Characters Distance Text Sampling. Algorithmica, Springer. vol.82(11), pp.3390-3412 (2020). DOI : 10.1007/s00453-020-00732-4
  • Arianna Pavone, Alessio Plebe: Revising Conceptual Similarity by Neural Networks. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Application (NCTA) parte dell’International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), pp.236-245 (2021). DOI : 10.5220/0010678300003063
  • Simone Faro, Francesco Pio Marino, Arianna Pavone and Antonio Scardace: Towards an Efficient Text Sampling Approach for Exact and Approximate Matching. In Proceedings of the Prague Stringology Conference (PSC 2021), pp.75-89 (2021)
  • Alessio Plebe, Arianna Pavone: Neural Semantic Pointers in Context. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Application (NCTA) parte dell’International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), pp.447-454 (2020). DOI : 10.5220/0010145904470454
  • Domenico Cantone, Simone Faro, Arianna Pavone: Sequence Searching Allowing for Non-Overlapping Adjacent Unbalanced Translocations. Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI). In LIPiCS vol.172, pp.19:1-19:14 (2020). DOI : 10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2020.19
  • Simone Faro, Arianna Pavone: Alignment of Sequences Allowing for Non-overlapping Unbalanced Translocations of Adjacent Factors. Proceedings of the 7th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol.11465, pp.120-131 (2019). DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-17938-0_12

Awards and Recognition

  • Winner of the Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Application (NCTA 2020). The paper entitled "Neural Semantic Pointers in Context", written in collaboration with Alessio Plebe, was presented at the NCTA 2020 conference on November 4, 2020.
  • Special mention received for the final doctoral thesis received by the Council of the Research Doctorate in Cognitive Sciences of the University of Messina on July 17, 2020.

Editorial Roles

Committees

  • Member of the Local Organizing Commette of the Midterm Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC 2022 Midterm): The Affective Turn in Cognitive Science, held from 22 to 24 May 2022.
  • Member of the Organizing Commette of the XVII Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC 2021): Post-Neuroscience Times for Cognitive Science Circa 2021?, held from 13 to 15 December 2021.
  • Member of the Organizing Commette of the 9th edition of the Conference by Women in Philosophy (to be announced)