I contribute to the international research community by organizing scientific initiatives within major international conferences. My activities include the organization of special sessions, data challenges, and workshops that promote emerging research topics, foster scientific collaboration, and advance research.
Special Session Organization
Special session on “Leveraging Foundation Models for Efficiently Developing Generative Models” at the INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), Rome, Italy, June 30 - July 5, 2025. Co-organizers: Takashi Shibuya and Yuki Mitsufuji (Sony AI / Sony Group Corporation).
Special session on “L3DAS24: Computational Processing for 3D Audio Sources” at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2024), Yokohama, Japan, Jun. 30 - Jul. 5, 2024. Co-organizers: Michele Scarpiniti, Riccardo Fosco Gramaccioni, Christian Marinoni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy).
Special session on "Explainable AI for Biomedical Data" at the 2024 Italian Workshop on Neural Networks (WIRN 2024), Vietri sul Mare, Italy, Ju. 5-7, 2024. Co-organizers: Eleonora Lopez (Sapienza University of Rome), Francesco Prinzi, Salvatore Vitabile (University of Palermo), Nadia Mammone (Mediterranea University).
Special session on “Hypercomplex Neural Networks for Circuits and Systems: State of the Art, Future Trends, and Applications” at the 30th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2023), Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 4–7, 2023. Co-organizers: Arturo Buscarino, Carlo Famoso (University of Catania, Italy), Luca Patané (University of Messina, Italy).
Special session on “Audio and Speech Enhancement: Emerging Trends in Deep Learning” at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022), Padua, Italy, Jul. 18–23, 2022. Co-organizers: Michele Scarpiniti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Jen-Tzung Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), Konstantinos Drossos (Tampere University, Finland).
Special session on “Learning Methods in Complex and Hypercomplex Domains” at the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, UK, May 12–17, 2019. Co-organizers: Clive Cheong Took (Royal Holloway University of London, UK).
Special session on “Novel Advances on Linear-in-the-Parameters Nonlinear Filters and Their Applications” at the 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2017), Kos, Greece, Aug 28 – Sep. 2, 2017. Co-organizers: Alberto Carini (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy), Luis A. Azpicueta-Ruiz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain).
Special session on “Computational Methods for Audio Analysis” at the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2016), Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, Sep. 13–16, 2016. Co-organizers: Michele Scarpiniti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Tuomas Virtanen (Tampere University, Finland), Mark Plumbley (University of Surray, UK), Stefano Squartini (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy), Paris Smaragdis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA).
Special session on “Advances on Linear-in-the-Parameters Nonlinear Filters and Their Application to Audio and Speech Processing” at the 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2016), Budapest, Hungary, Aug 29 – Sep. 2, 2016. Co-organizers: Alberto Carini (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy), Luis A. Azpicueta-Ruiz (Universidad
Challenge Organization
Signal Processing Grand Challenge “L3DAS23: Learning 3D Audio Sources for Audio-Visual Extended Reality” at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 4–10, 2023. Co-organizer: Christian Marinoni, Riccardo Fosco Gramaccioni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Changan Chen (UT Austin, TX, USA).
Signal Processing Grand Challenge “L3DAS22: Machine Learning for 3D Audio Signal Processing” at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022), Singapore, May 22–27, 2022. Co-organizer: Eric Guizzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Xinlei Ren (Kuaishou Technology, China), Bruno Masiero (University of Campinas, Brazil).
Data Challenge “L3DAS21: Machine Learning for 3D Audio Signal Processing” at the 31st IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2021), Gold Coast, Australia, Oct. 25–28, 2021. Co-organizer: Eric Guizzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy).
Workshop Organization
Workshop on Machine Learning for Wireless Communication and Networks at the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), Vancouver, Canada, July 18, 2025. Co-organizers: Eleonora Grassucci (Sapienza University of Rome), Jihong Park, Zihan Chen (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Xinyu Gong (ByteDance), Yansha Deng (King's College London), Xueyan Niu (Huawei Technologies).