_{Collective Adaptive Systems · Aggregate Computing · Multi-Agent RL · LLMs for Software Engineering}

I'm fascinated by all things related to emergence and complexity. My research focuses on engineering collective adaptive systems, and in particular on:

• Aggregate computing: programming large-scale distributed systems as a whole (intro)
• Multi-agent cooperative reinforcement learning: learning collective behaviours instead of hand-coding them
• Foundation models for software engineering: from requirement management to development

Beyond research, I'm a huge Scala enthusiast, and I work as a consultant on software architecture and AI-assisted development.

Languages

Scala & JVM

Machine learning & LLMs

Tooling

ScaFi · core contributor
Scala DSL and toolkit for aggregate programming, with the ScaFi Web playground and the low-code ScaFi Blocks editor. SoftwareX '22

MacroSwarm · designer
Field-based compositional library for programming swarm behaviours on top of ScaFi. LMCS '25

Phyelds · designer
Aggregate computing, reimagined for Python: field-based coordination for adaptive, distributed systems. COORDINATION '26

ScaRLib · designer
Scala framework for cooperative many-agent deep reinforcement learning. SCP '24

SHAC++ · co-author
Multi-agent policy learning through differentiable simulators. ECAI '25

Project Emerge · co-author
Demonstrator of self-organising teams of real autonomous drones, shown at the European Researchers' Night. SCP '26

Aggregate computing & swarm programming

• ACM TOSEM '25 Software Engineering for Collective Cyber-Physical Ecosystems
• LMCS '25 MacroSwarm: A Field-based Compositional Framework for Swarm Programming
• SoftwareX '22 ScaFi: A Scala DSL and Toolkit for Aggregate Programming

Learning in collective systems

• ECAI '25 SHAC++: A Neural Network to Rule All Differentiable Simulators
• LMCS '26 FBFL: A Field-Based Coordination Approach for Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning
• FGCS '26 Heterogeneous GNN for Collective-Task Offloading in Cloud-Edge via Deep Q-Learning

LLMs, agents & software engineering

• ACM TIoT '25 A Language-based Approach to Macroprogramming for IoT Systems through Large Language Models
• JSS '26 Java Academic Benchmark: Exam-based Evaluation of LLMs on Object-Oriented Programming
• ECAI '25 Exploiting GenAI for Plan Generation in BDI Agents

Full list on Google Scholar and DBLP.

Adjunct professor at the University of Bologna (Module 2 of each course):

• Advanced Software Modelling and Design, Master's in Computer Science and Engineering
• Paradigmi di Programmazione e Sviluppo, Master's in Computer Science and Engineering
• Progettazione e Sviluppo del Software, Bachelor's in Computer Systems Technologies

Latest course updates on my university page.