TNG Group @ Politecnico di Torino
Telecommunication Networks Group @ Politecnico di Torino
TNG Group @ Politecnico di Torino

Luca Vassio

  • Email: luca.vassio@polito.it
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Associate professor at Politecnico di Torino after obtaining a PhD in Electronics and Communication Engineering, “cum laude”, and an MSc in Mathematical Engineering. In the last years, he was hosted and worked for Bell Labs, MIT, UFMG, EPFL, UFMG, and GE Aviation.  He is interested in many fields of data science, from big data analytics problems to the usage of statistical, machine learning, and data mining approaches. He is an expert in creating analytical and data-driven models of real phenomena and optimizing performance in different scenarios. His current work is focused on studying the behaviour of people, with a focus on (i) internet measurements, (ii) social networks, and (iii) urban mobility.

His research interests include:

  • Data-driven and analytical modelling of human behaviour
  • Internet traffic data analysis
  • Cybersecurity and privacy
  • Online social networks
  • Mobility and transportation
  • Machine learning and data mining for big data analytics

Highlights:

  • 70+ peer-reviewed international publications
  • 60+ supervised students
  • Research director and principal investigator in multiple research projects
  • Teaching in 8 graduate courses
  • Chair in 4 Workshops, and TPC in 20+ conferences
  • 6 keynotes and tutorials
  • Increasing citation rate, with first published paper in 2014

You can find more about me at:

 

 

  1. Yassine, Ali; Cagliero, Luca; Vassio, Luca, On Cost-Effectiveness of Language Models for Time Series Anomaly Detection, 2026
  2. Perlo, Alessandro; Paoletti, Giordano; Jha, Nikhil; Vassio, Luca; MARQUES DE ALMEIDA GONCALVES, Jussara; Mellia, Marco, Topic-wise Exploration of the Telegram Group-verse, 2025
  3. Zhao, Yuqi; Dettori, Giovanni; Boffa, Matteo; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco, The Sweet Danger of Sugar: Debunking Representation Learning for Encrypted Traffic Classification, 2025
  4. Paoletti, Giordano; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Almeida, Jussara, CoDÆN: Benchmarks and Comparison of Evolutionary Community Detection Algorithms for Dynamic Networks, 2025
  5. Paoletti, Giordano; Almeida, Jussara M.; Vassio, Luca; Gonçalves, Marcos André; Mellia, Marco, Join the Chat: How Curiosity Sparks Participation in Telegram Groups, 2025
  6. Paoletti, Giordano; Ferreira, Carlos H. G.; Vassio, Luca; Rocha, Leonardo; Almeida, Jussara M., Tracing the 2024 U.S. election debate on Telegram with LLMs and graph analysis, 2025
  7. Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Milan, Giulia; Houidi, Zied Ben; Rossi, Dario, Cross-network Embeddings Transfer for Traffic Analysis, 2024
  8. Boffa, Matteo; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Valentim, Rodolfo; Houidi, Zied Ben, LogPrécis: Unleashing language models for automated malicious log analysis, 2024
  9. Benedetto, Irene; La Quatra, Moreno; Cagliero, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Trevisan, Martino, TASP: Topic-based abstractive summarization of Facebook text posts, 2024
  10. Huang, Kai; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca, Incremental Federated Host Embeddings for Network Telescopes Traffic Analysis, 2024
  11. Huang, Kai; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca, Dynamic Cluster Analysis to Detect and Track Novelty in Network Telescopes, 2024
  12. Paoletti, Giordano; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca; Almeida, Jussara M., Benchmarking Evolutionary Community Detection Algorithms in Dynamic Networks, 2024
  13. Cavallo, Andrea; Gioacchini, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca, Detecting Edge and Node Anomalies with Temporal GNNs, 2024
  14. Cognigni, Cecilia; De Lorenzis, Federico; Lamberti, Fabrizio; Mellia, Marco; Vallero, Greta; Vassio, Luca; Visconti, Alessandro; Vivarelli, Maurizio, Reading(&)Machine. Un modello prototipale per la promozione della lettura in biblioteca, 2023
  15. Jha, Nikhil; Vassio, Luca; Trevisan, Martino; Leonardi, Emilio; Mellia, Marco, Practical anonymization for data streams: z-anonymity and relation with k-anonymity, 2023
  16. Benedetto, Irene; La Quatra, Moreno; Cagliero, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Trevisan, Martino, Transformer-based Prediction of Emotional Reactions to Online Social Network Posts, 2023
  17. Ciociola, Alessandro; Giordano, Danilo; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco, Data Driven Scalability and Profitability Analysis in Free Floating Electric Car Sharing Systems, 2023
  18. Gioacchini, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Ben Houidi, Zied; Rossi, Dario, i-DarkVec: Incremental Embeddings for Darknet Traffic Analysis, 2023
  19. Gioacchini, Luca; Cavallo, Andrea; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca, Exploring Temporal GNN Embeddings for Darknet Traffic Analysis, 2023
  20. Galante, Franco; Vassio, Luca; Garetto, Michele; Leonardi, Emilio, Modeling communication asymmetry and content personalization in online social networks, 2023
  21. Speciale, A.; Vallero, G.; Vassio, L.; Mellia, M., Recommendation Systems in Libraries: an Application with Heterogeneous Data Sources, 2023
  22. Cavallo, Andrea; Grohnfeldt, Claas; Russo, Michele; Lovisotto, Giulio; Vassio, Luca, 2-hop Neighbor Class Similarity (2NCS): A graph structural metric indicative of graph neural network performance, 2023
  23. Boffa, M.; Vassio, L.; Mellia, M.; Drago, I.; Milan, G.; Houidi, Z. B.; Rossi, D., On using pretext tasks to learn representations from network logs, 2022
  24. Jha, Nikhil; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Traverso, Stefano; Garcia-Recuero, Alvaro; Laoutaris, Nikolaos; Mehrjoo, Amir; Azcoitia, Santiago Andres; Rumin, Ruben Cuevas; Katevas, Kleomenis; Papadopoulos, Panagiotis; Kourtellis, Nicolas; Gonzalez, Roberto; Olivares, Xavi; Kalatzantonakis-Jullien, George-Marios, A PIMS Development Kit for New Personal Data Platforms, 2022
  25. Jha, Nikhil; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco, The Internet with Privacy Policies: Measuring The Web Upon Consent, 2022
  26. Boffa, Matteo; Milan, Giulia; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Ben Houidi, Zied, Towards NLP-based Processing of Honeypot Logs, 2022
  27. Pinna, Maurizio; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco, Demand Model Generation from Traces: Adaptive KDE Data-Driven Optimization, 2022
  28. Gomes Ferreira, Carlos Henrique; Murai, Fabricio; Silva, Ana P. C.; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Almeida, Jussara M., On network backbone extraction for modeling online collective behavior, 2022
  29. Vassio, Luca; Garetto, Michele; Leonardi, Emilio; Chiasserini, Carla Fabiana, Mining and modelling temporal dynamics of followers' engagement on online social networks, 2022
  30. Arditti, Laura; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Lazzari, Alberto De; Danese, Alberto, User Value in Modern Payment Platforms: A Graph Approach, 2022
  31. Caso, Paola; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca, Disentangling the Information Flood on OSNs: Finding Notable Posts and Topics, 2022
  32. Vassio, L.; Giordano, D.; Kim, J.; Crowcroft, J., Message from the organizers of WAIN, 2022
  33. GOMES FERREIRA, CARLOS HENRIQUE; Murai, Fabricio; Silva, Ana Paula Couto.; Almeida, Jussara M.; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio, On the dynamics of political discussions on Instagram: A network perspective, 2021
  34. Di Domenico, Andrea; Perna, Gianluca; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo, A Network Analysis on Cloud Gaming: Stadia, GeForce Now and PSNow, 2021
  35. Fassio, Edoardo; Ciociola, Alessandro; Giordano, Danilo; Noussan, Michel; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco, Environmental and Economic Comparison of ICEV and EV in Car Sharing, 2021
  36. Markudova, Dena; Mishra, Sachit; Cagliero, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Baralis, Elena; Salvatori, Lucia; Loti, Riccardo, Preventive maintenance for heterogeneous industrial vehicles with incomplete usage data, 2021
  37. Soro, Francesca; Favale, Thomas; Giordano, Danilo; Vassio, Luca; Ben Houidi, Zied; Drago, Idilio, The New Abnormal: Network Anomalies in the AI Era, 2021
  38. Gioacchini, Luca; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Drago, Idilio; Houidi, Zied Ben; Rossi, Dario, DarkVec: automatic analysis of darknet traffic with word embeddings, 2021
  39. Milan, Giulia; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, RL-IoT: Reinforcement Learning to Interact with IoT Devices, 2021
  40. Tolomei, Leonardo; Fiorini, Stefano; Ciociola, Alessandro; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco, Benefits of Relocation on E-scooter Sharing - a Data-Informed Approach, 2021
  41. Faroughi, Azadeh; Morichetta, Andrea; Vassio, Luca; Figueiredo, Flavio; Mellia, Marco; Javidan, Reza, Towards website domain name classification using graph based semi-supervised learning, 2021
  42. Morichetta, Andrea; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Krickl, Julia, Understanding web pornography usage from traffic analysis, 2021
  43. Vassio, Luca; Garetto, Michele; Chiasserini, Carla Fabiana; Leonardi, Emilio, Temporal Dynamics of Posts and User Engagement of Influencers on Facebook and Instagram, 2021
  44. Giordano, Danilo; Vassio, Luca; Cagliero, Luca, A multi-faceted characterization of free-floating car sharing service usage, 2021
  45. Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo, Debate on online social networks at the time of COVID-19: An Italian case study, 2021
  46. Alencar, Victor A.; Rooke, Felipe; Cocca, Michele; Vassio, Luca; Almeida, Jussara; Vieira, Alex Borges, Characterizing client usage patterns and service demand for car-sharing systems, 2021
  47. Bertone, Fabio; Vassio, Luca; Trevisan, Martino, The stock exchange of influencers: a financial approach for studying fanbase variation trends, 2021
  48. Vassio, L.; Zhang, Z. -L.; Giordano, D.; Chandra, A., Message from the organizers of WAIN, 2021
  49. Ciociola, Alessandro; Markudova, Dena; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco; Meo, Michela, Impact of Charging Infrastructure and Policies on Electric Car Sharing Systems, 2020
  50. Barulli, Michelangelo; Ciociola, Alessandro; Cocca, Michele; Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco, On Scalability of Electric Car Sharing in Smart Cities, 2020
  51. Ciociola, Alessandro; Cocca, Michele; Giordano, Danilo; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco, E-Scooter Sharing: Leveraging Open Data for System Design, 2020
  52. Jha, Nikhil; Favale, Thomas; Vassio, Luca; Trevisan, Martino; Mellia, Marco, z-anonymity: Zero-Delay Anonymization for Data Streams, 2020
  53. Gomes Ferreira, Carlos Henrique; Murai, Fabricio; Couto da Silva, Ana Paula; de Almeida, Jussara Marques; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, Unveiling Community Dynamics on Instagram Political Network, 2020
  54. Mishra, S.; Vassio, L.; Cagliero, L.; Mellia, M.; Baralis, E.; Loti, R.; Salvatori, L., Machine learning supported next-maintenance prediction for industrial vehicles, 2020
  55. Cocca, Michele; Teixeira, Douglas; Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Almeida, Jussara M.; Couto da Silva, Ana Paula Couto da, On Car-Sharing Usage Prediction with Open Socio-Demographic Data, 2020
  56. Vassio, Luca; Garetto, Michele; Chiasserini, Carla Fabiana; Leonardi, Emilio, User Interaction with Online Advertisements: Temporal Modeling and Optimization of Ads Placement, 2020
  57. Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; MURAI FERREIRA, Fabricio; DINIZ DE FIGUEIREDO, FLAVIO VINICIUS; Couto da Silva, Ana Paula; Almeida, Jussara M., Towards Understanding Political Interactions on Instagram, 2019
  58. Markudova, D.; Baralis, E.; Cagliero, L.; Mellia, M.; Vassio, L.; Amparore, E.; Loti, R.; Salvatori, L., Heterogeneous industrial vehicle usage predictions: A real case, 2019
  59. Cocca, Michele; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca, Free floating electric car sharing design: Data driven optimisation, 2019
  60. Cocca, Michele; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca, Free Floating Electric Car Sharing: A Data Driven Approach for System Design, 2019
  61. Morichetta, Andrea; Trevisan, Martino; Vassio, Luca, Characterizing Web Pornography Consumption from Passive Measurements, 2019
  62. Zargarian, Golnaz; Vassio, L; Munafo, Maurizio; Mellia, M, Mining Patterns in Mobile Network Logs, 2019
  63. Vassio, L; Mellia, M, Data Analysis and Modelling of Users' Behavior on the Web, 2019
  64. Vassio, Luca, Human Behaviour on the Web: Evolution, Interactions and Exploitation, 2019
  65. Vassio, L.; Zhang, Z. -L.; Lee, S. -J., Workshop WAIN: Welcome message, 2019
  66. Vassio, Luca, Data Analysis and Modelling of Users’ Behaviour on the Web, 2018-03-15
  67. Cocca, Michele; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca, Data Driven Optimization of Charging Station Placement for EV Free Floating Car Sharing, 2018
  68. Cocca, Michele; Giordano, Danilo; Mellia, Marco; Vassio, Luca, Free Floating Electric Car Sharing in Smart Cities: Data Driven System Dimensioning, 2018
  69. Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco; Ben Houidi, Zied; Lamali, Mohamed Lamine, You, the Web, and Your Device: Longitudinal Characterization of Browsing Habits, 2018
  70. Vassio, Luca; Giordano, Danilo; Trevisan, Martino; Mellia, Marco; Couto da Silva, Ana Paula, Users’ Fingerprinting Techniques from TCP Traffic, 2017
  71. Vassio, Luca; Mellia, Marco; Figueiredo, Flavio; Couto da Silva, Ana Paula; Almeida, Jussara M., Mining and modeling web trajectories from passive traces, 2017
  72. Ampellio, Enrico; Bertini, Francesco; Ferrero, Andrea; Larocca, Francesco; Vassio, Luca, Turbomachinery design by a swarm-based optimization method coupled with a CFD solver, 2016
  73. Vassio, Luca; Drago, Idilio; Mellia, Marco, Detecting user actions from HTTP traces: Toward an automatic approach, 2016
  74. Vassio, Luca; Metwalley, Hassan; Giordano, Danilo, The Exploitation of Web Navigation Data: Ethical Issues and Alternative Scenarios, 2016
  75. Ampellio, Enrico; Vassio, Luca, A hybrid ABC for expensive optimizations: CEC 2016 competition benchmark, 2016
  76. Ampellio, Enrico; Vassio, Luca, A hybrid swarm-based algorithm for single-objective optimization problems involving high-cost analyses, 2016
  77. Vassio, Luca; Fagnani, Fabio; Frasca, Paolo; Ozdaglar, A., Message Passing Optimization of Harmonic Influence Centrality, 2014
  78. Vassio, Luca; Fagnani, Fabio; Frasca, Paolo; Ozdaglar, Asuman, A message passing algorithm for the evaluation of social influence, 2014
  79. Francesco, Bertini; Lorenzo, Dal Mas; Vassio, Luca; Ampellio, Enrico, Multidiscipinary Optimization For Gas Turbines Design, 2014