Antonio Ferrara

Antonio Ferrara is an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Bari, affiliated with the Information Systems Lab (SisInf Lab). His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, Recommender Systems, and Trustworthy AI. Key contributions include frameworks like Elliot for reproducible AI evaluation, federated learning approaches for privacy, and knowledge graph integration in recommendation systems.

He has organized conferences such as ICWE 2022 and workshops on Critical Infrastructures Security, SWEET Semantic Web, and CyberChallenge.IT. His work addresses AI fairness, privacy in recommendation systems, and adversarial attacks on ML systems. He actively contributes to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of software engineering, big data analysis, and ethical AI.

Recent publications emphasize reproducibility in AI research, bias mitigation, and application of AI in healthcare (e.g., Alzheimer's diagnosis, cancer radiotherapy). His lab's activities span semantic technologies, cyber-physical systems security, and user-centric data control mechanisms.