Federico Pilati

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.

As a researcher, he took part in two Horizon projects, inDICEs and EUMEPLAT, the EMIF-funded project UnMiSSeD, and the Future Artificial Intelligence Research partnership within NRRP. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS in Paris and at the Medialab of the University of Geneva.

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 has been involved in establishing the Infodemic Observatory, a project co-funded by the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the World Health Organization.