Federico Pilati

Federico Pilati is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca and research associate at the Medialab of the University of Geneva.

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.

He obtained an European Doctorate with honours 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, and he visited the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS in Paris in 2021 and the Medialab of the University of Geneva in 2023. He was also a research assistant in two Horizon projects, "inDICEs" and "EUMEPLAT". Within the Future Artificial Intelligence Research partnership, his research fellowship revolved around LLM and Generative AI.