Dr.Arianna Pavone, PhD

Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of Palermo - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Member of the Governing Board of the Italian Association of Cognitive 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

Dr. Arianna Pavone is a researcher working in a multidisciplinary field, with interests spanning both computer science and the humanities. She is currently focused on text processing and quantum computing, but has also worked on topics such as knowledge representation and computational linguistics. Her research combines scientific and humanistic approaches, exploring fundamental questions such as the relationship between natural and artificial brain systems. This integrated approach contributes to a broader understanding of human cognitive processes and their applications in the field of computer science.

Recent Events (in 2024)

Dr. Arianna Pavone has participated in more than 18 international scientific events as a speaker or organizer. Below is a list of the most recent events in which she has taken part.

  • ITSERR 2024 - Naples, Italy
    Participation as a speaker at the event "State of the Art of ITSERR project and Training on Distributional Semantics and Interoperability between Datasets," held in Naples, Italy, from October 23 to 24, 2024.
  • ICTCS 2024 - Turin, Italy
    Participation as a speaker at the 25th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, held from September 11 to 13, 2024, in Turin, Italy. The following two works were presented at the conference: "Families of Constant-Depth Quantum Circuits for Rotations and Permutations" and "Quantum Circuit Based Longest Common Substring."
  • ITSERR 2024 - Reggio Emilia, Italy
    Participation as a speaker at the third training and research update event of the PNRR ITSERR project on Digital Humanities & Religious Studies, held from June 10 to 11, 2024, at the Department of Education and Human Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
  • QUASAR 2024 - Pisa, Italy
    Participation as Program Chair at the QUASAR 2024 workshop on Quantum Search and Information Retrieval, held on June 3, 2024, at the University of Pisa.
  • 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".

Recent Publications (in 2024)

Dr.Arianna Pavone actively publishes between computer science and cognitive science. The following are recent publications appeared in 2024.

  • Arianna Pavone and Caterina Viola. The Quantum Cyclic Rotation Gate. Springer Nature Computer Science, Volume 5, article number 830 (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s42979-024-03141-4
  • Matteo Tolloso, Silvia Giulia Galfrè, Arianna Pavone, Marco Podda, Alina Sîrbu, Corrado Priami. How Much Do DNA and Protein Deep Embeddings Preserve Biological Information?. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2024), LNCS Vol. 14971, pp. 209-225, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/978-3- 031-71671-3_15
  • Simone Faro, Thierry Lecroq, Francesco Pio Marino, Arianna Pavone and Stefano Scafiti. Improving Sampled Matching through Character Context Sampling. In Proceedings of the 25th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2024), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol.3811, pp.300-312 (2024)
  • Simone Faro, Arianna Pavone and Caterina Viola. Families of Constant-Depth Quantum Circuits for Rotations and Permutations. In Proceedings of the 25th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2024), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol.3811, pp.29- 41 (2024)
  • Domenico Cantone, Simone Faro, Arianna Pavone and Caterina Viola. Quantum Circuit Based Longest Common Substring. In Proceedings of the 25th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2024), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol.3811, pp.1- 15 (2024)
  • Arianna Pavone and Caterina Viola. A Quantum Circuit for the Cyclic String-Matching Problem. In Proceeding of the Prague Stringology Conference (PSC 2024), pp.50-70, Jan Ho- lub and Jan Zdarek (Eds.), ISBN978-80-01-07328-5, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic (2024)
  • Simone Faro, Francesco Pio Marino, Arianna Pavone and Antonio Scarda- ce. The Great Textual Hoax: Boosting Sampled String Matching with Fake Samples. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2024). LIPIcs, Volume 291, pp. 13:1–13:17, 2024. DOI: 10.4230/LIPICS.FUN.2024.13
  • Simone Faro, Arianna Pavone, and Caterina Viola. Quantum Path Parallelism A Circuit- Based Approach to Text Searching. In Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC), LNCS Vol. 14637, pp. 247–259, 2024. DOI : 10.1007/978-981-97-2340-9_21
  • Domenico Cantone, Simone Faro, Arianna Pavone, Caterina Viola. Quantum Circuits for Fixed Matching Substring Problems. In Proceedings of the European Computing Conference, Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems,vol.1018.Springer,2024.DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-62269-4_43

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 Scientific Program Committee for the 20th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC 2024), held in Rome, Italy, from September 18 to 20, 2024
  • Member of the Scientific Program Committee for the 19th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC 2023), held in Genoa, Italy, from December 14 to 16, 2023.
  • 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)