PILATI FEDERICO

Federico Pilati is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca.

As an adjunct professor he teaches "Qualitative Methods in Digital Media Research" at the University of Bologna as well as "Machine Learning and Generative AI for Social Research" and "Video Surveillance, Datafication and New Forms of Control" at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Additionally, he contributed to the co-design of the KU Leuven MOOC on "Developing Digital Transition Strategies for Cultural Heritage Institutions", where he instructs two modules on the attention economy and on digital cultural production.

He obtained an European Doctorate from IULM University in Milan, defending a thesis titled "One Pandemic, Many Controversies. Mapping the COVID-19 'Infodemic' via Digital Methods". Throughout his doctoral studies he was affiliated with the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS in Paris and the Medialab of the University of Geneva. As an external expert he has also been involved in establishing the Infodemic Observatory, a project co-funded by the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the World Health Organization.

As a research assistant he took part in two Horizon projects, "inDICEs" and "EUMEPLAT". Furthermore, he has been a research fellow at the University of Bologna within the "Future Artificial Intelligence Research" partnership funded by NRRP. His fellowship revolved around LLMs and Generative AI, exploring the potentiality of repurposing these tools as methods to enhance and innovate social research. Finally, as a research associate at the University of Geneva, he contributed to writing the proposal and executing the "UnMiSSeD" project, which was funded through a competitive grant from the European Media and Information Fund.