Dr.Arianna Pavone, PhD

Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of Palermo - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Biography

Dr. Arianna Pavone is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of Palermo, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. She is also member of the governing board of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC).

From 2022 to 2023, Dr. Arianna held a position as a Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy, where she contributed to the bioinformatics research group led by Prof. Corrado Priami. Concurrently, she served as a data scientist at GlaxoSmithKline in Siena.

Dr. Arianna's academic background is rich and interdisciplinary, encompassing philosophy, cognitive science, and computer science. She earned her PhD in Cognitive Science in 2021 from the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of Messina, under the supervision of Prof. Alessio Plebe. Prior to her doctoral studies, she obtained a Laurea in Cognitive Science in 2017 from the University of Messina. Her undergraduate education was completed in 2015 at the University of Catania, where she received a bachelor's degree in Humanities.

During his university tenure, he began a fruitful collaboration with the research group led by Prof. Simone Faro at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania. This partnership was instrumental in his foundational training in computation, text processing, and machine learning. Throughout his master's degree, he further delved into cognitive sciences, focusing on the modeling of biologically plausible artificial brain networks under the guidance of Prof. Alessio Plebe. This ongoing collaboration with the University of Catania's research group has not only continued to the present but also facilitated his entry into the emerging field of quantum computing.

Dr. Arianna's doctoral research, supervised by Professor Plebe, focused on nuanced topics within the philosophy of science, particularly concerning biological and artificial reasoning processes. Her work involved simulating computational models of brain networks which, alongside her research in text processing, bridged her interests to the broader field of information technology. Presently, her scholarly pursuits are positioned at the confluence of philosophy, quantum technologies, and computing. Dr. Arianna's current research interests span computer science, artificial intelligence, text processing, and quantum computing, reflecting a deep commitment to exploring interdisciplinary approaches within these domains.

Research Interest

Recent Events (from 2021)

  • Sequences in London 2024 - London
    Participation as speaker at Sequences in London 2024, held from 8 to 9 February 2024, at City University of London. Talk entitled: "Longest Common Substring and Longest Palindromic Substring in O(√n) Time".
  • 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.

Recent Publications (from 2022)

Dr.Arianna Pavone actively publishes between computer science and cognitive science. The following are recent publications, post-2022.

  • Simone Faro, Francesco Pio Marino, Arianna Pavone: Improved characters distance sampling for online and offline text searching. Theoretical Computer Science, vol.946: 113684 (2023). DOI : 10.1016/J.TCS.2022.12.034
  • Arianna Pavone, Caterina Viola: The Quantum Cyclic Rotation Gate. In proceedings of the 24th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2023). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol.3587, 206-218 (2023).
  • Domenico Cantone, Simone Faro, Arianna Pavone: Quantum String Matching Unfolded and Extended. In proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC 2023). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 13960, 117-133. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-38100-3\_9
  • Arianna Pavone, Alessio Plebe: Resolving Linguistic Ambiguities by Visual Context. SN Comput. Sci. Vol.3(5), p.413 (2022). DOI : 10.1007/S42979-022-01259-X

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

  • Chair of the Program Committee of the International Workshop on Quantum Search and Information Retrieval (QUASAR 2024), part of the ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), held in Pisa on 3 June 2024.
  • Member of the Organizing Commette of the 24th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2023), the conference of the Italian Chapter of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, held in Palermo, Italy, from 13 to 15 September, 2023.
  • 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)