# Event Details - **Event Name**: Talk of Doct. Claudio Battiloro - The Shapes of Knowledge - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 11:30 am – Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 01:00 pm - **Event Description**: Topological and Geometric Methods to Learn on Complex Networks. Academic, by Doct. Claudio Battiloro, Post Doc Fellow @ Harvard UniversityAbout this EventTalk Abstract: Current frontiers in machine learning, data science, and, more broadly, artificial intelligence reveal the limits of purely predictive approaches and motivate a shift toward decentralized, scalable, and causal systems. Such systems require processing and learning on increasingly complex networks. A promising heterogeneous toolbox, loosely grouped under the name of Topological Deep Learning (TDL), aims to design deep architectures that integrate ideas from algebraic topology, non-Euclidean geometry, and category theory to address this complexity. In Dr. Battiloro’s approach to TDL, the basic units of a network are cells, which generalize graph nodes. A cell may represent, for example, a single agent or a group of agents in an agentic AI system, a neuron or a brain region in a neural circuit, or a sensor or sensor type in an environmental monitoring network. Cells can be organized hierarchically and exhibit rich intra-and inter-cell interaction patterns. In this seminar, Dr. Battiloro will (1) introduce and discuss TDL’s current landscape and explain why developing a modern, coherent language for it matters broadly, (2) argue that this language should be grounded in the theory of poset sheaves, (3) briefly highlight goals TDL has already achieved—such as inferring higher-order, hierarchical goal-driven interactions in data or jointly modeling and relating subjective causal structures across cells—and (4) outline an ambitious sheaf-centric research pathway for TDL.Biography: Dr. Battiloro is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the NSAPH group supervised by Prof. Francesca Dominici. He is part of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. He is a former Visiting Associate at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science in the AleLab group supervised by Prof. Alejandro Ribeiro. He received a M.Sc. cum laude (and recognized as a top 1.5% student) in Data Science and a Ph.D. cum laude in Information and Communication Technologies, both from Sapienza University of Rome, and both under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Di Lorenzo. Dr. Battiloro’s research interests include theory and methods for topological signal processing and deep learning, to which he has made pioneering contributions, AI for healthy climate adaptation, and distributed stochastic optimization. He has over 40 publications, including papers published in top-tier journals (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Journal of Machine Learning Research, IEEE Transactions on IoT, and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking) and conferences (e.g., ICLR, ICML, ICASSP, NeurIPS, and IJCNN). Claudio received different awards, such as the IEEE SPS Italian Chapter Best M.Sc. Thesis Award (2020), the GTTI Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (2024), and the "Elio Di Claudio" Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (2025). - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/perugia/talk-of-doct-claudio-battiloro-the-shapes-of-knowledge/100001981109130740 - **Event Categories**: it, workshops, health-wellness, nonprofit, artificial-intelligence - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: Aula Magna - Dipartimento di Ingegneria - Università degli Studi di Perugia - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Ftalk-of-doct-claudio-battiloro-the-shapes-of-knowledge-tickets-1981109130740 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: EUR ## Event venue details - **city**: Perugia - **state**: UM - **country**: Italy - **location**: Aula Magna del Campus di Ingegneria - **lat**: 43.1186977 - **long**: 12.3556944 - **full address**: Aula Magna del Campus di Ingegneria, Via Goffredo Duranti, n.93, Perugia, Italy ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Università degli Studi di Perugia - Dip.Ingegneria (https://allevents.in/org/università-degli-studi-di-perugia-dipingegneria/24634015) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Talk+of+Doct.+Claudio+Battiloro+-+The+Shapes+of+Knowledge&date=Fri%2C+23+Jan%2C+2026+at+11%3A30+am&bg=1 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/banners/uploads/default_thumb_square.png ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 11:30 am - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Aula Magna del Campus di Ingegneria, Via Goffredo Duranti, n.93, Perugia, Italy - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 EUR - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Università degli Studi di Perugia - Dip.Ingegneria - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** it, workshops, health-wellness, nonprofit, artificial-intelligence - **Q**: What is the duration of the event? - **A:** 1 hour 30 minutes - **Q**: What is the location of the event? - **A:** Aula Magna - Dipartimento di Ingegneria - Università degli Studi di Perugia - **Q**: What is the languages of the event? - **A:** English - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Talk of Doct. 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