Cristina Menghini

Ciao visitor, this is Cristina! ๐Ÿ‘‹

Iโ€™m a postdoc in the Computer Science department at Brown University ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ, where I do fun research in the BATS lab led by Stephen Bach. As data is changing our notion of the world, I contribute to this change by either designing models to learn from a few labeled data, or understanding humans behaviours, with a computational approach.

I arrived at Brown as Visiting Ph.D. student and worked with Eli Upfal and Matteo Riondato. In July 2021, I defended my Ph.D. thesis in Computer Engineering from Sapienza University ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น, advised by Aris Anagnostopoulos and Stefano Leonardi. I earned my masterโ€™s degree in Data Science at Sapienza University, after one-year exchange in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ, where I joined Data Science Lab led by Robert West. Before that, I got a bachelor degree in Statistics, Economics and Finance at Sapienza University.

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๐Ÿ“ Publications

  1. Reducing polarization and increasing diverse navigability in graphs by inserting edges and swapping edge weights
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 2022
    S. Haddadan, C. Menghini, M. Riondato, E. Upfal
    [pdf]

  2. Tight Lower Bounds on Worst-Case Guarantees for Zero-Shot Learning with Attributes
    Neurips 2022
    A. Mazzetto *, C. Menghini *, A. Yuan, E. Upfal, S. H. Bach
    [pdf]

  3. The Drift of #MyBodyMyChoice Discourse on Twitter
    WebSci 2022 - ๐Ÿ† Best Paper Award Honorable Mention
    C. Menghini, J. Uhr, S. Haddadan, A. Champagne, B. Sandstede, S. Ramachandran
    [pdf]

  4. TAGLETS: A System for Automatic Semi-Supervised Learning with Auxiliary Data
    Machine Learning and Systems 2022
    W. Piriyakulkij, C. Menghini, R. Briden, N. V. Nayak, J. Zhu, E. Raisi, S. H. Bach
    [pdf]

  5. Algorithms for fair k-clustering with multiple protected attributes
    Operations Research Letters 2021
    M. Bohm, A. Fazzone, S. Leonardi, C. Menghini, C. Schwiegelshohn
    [pdf]

  6. RePBubLik: Reducing polarized bubble radius with link insertions
    WSDM 2021 - ๐Ÿ† Best Paper Award Honorable Mention
    S. Haddadan, C. Menghini, M. Riondato, E. Upfal
    [pdf]

  7. How Inclusive Are Wikipediaโ€™s Hyperlinks in Articles Covering Polarizing Topics?
    Big Data 2021
    C. Menghini, A. Anagnostopoulos, E. Upfal
    [pdf]

  8. Spectral Relaxations and Fair Densest Subgraphs
    CIKM 2021
    A. Anagnostopoulos, L. Becchetti, A. Fazzone, C. Menghini, C. Schwiegelshohn
    [pdf]

  9. Wikipedia Polarization and Its Effects on Navigation Paths
    Big Data 2019
    C. Menghini, A. Anagnostopoulos, E. Upfal
    [pdf]

  10. Compiling Questions into Balanced Quizzes about Documents
    CIKM 2018
    C. Menghini, J. Dehler-Zufferey, R. West
    [pdf]