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CILAB - Computational Intelligence Lab

CILab is a research laboratory at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bari that engag

01/03/2026

🎉 A day to celebrate at CILab!

Our Raffaele Scaringi and Pasquale de Marinis have successfully defended their PhD theses 🎓✨ within the PhD Programme in Computer Science and Mathematics at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, guided throughout this journey by Giovanna Castellano and Gennaro Vessio.

We are proud of the path they have taken and of the researchers, and people, they have become.

As in every CILab celebration, there was the formal moment… followed by the real celebration: coming together to celebrate our community and the joy of being part of it ❤️

Congratulations to our new doctors! Looking forward to what comes next!

And remember: stay passionate, perseverant, humble, hungry, daring, and dedicated. 🚀

DIB - Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro

AcademicJourney

19/12/2025

Season's greetings from CILab🎄❤️✨️

27/09/2025

Research, science, passion to explain and spread, backpain, dry throats: all the ingredients for the European Research Night 2025

CILab was happy to partecipate with the stand "La scienza dell'Intelligenza Artificiale".

Junior PhDs .g.valerio .ivanr spent the whole afternoon speedrunning explanations of their research while Senior PhDs .demarinis and .scaringi gave two TEDTalks: "Vision" and "Knowledge" (the audience was flabbergasted!).

And let's not forget the bosses and that coordinated everything.

27/09/2025

Ieri sera Bari (insieme a tutta l’Europa!) ha celebrato la Notte Europea dei Ricercatori 🎉
I nostri dottorandi del DIB - Dipartimento di Informatica dell' Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro hanno partecipato con grande entusiasmo per dimostrare che oggi l’Intelligenza Artificiale è scienza — non fantascienza 🤖✨

Condividere passione, curiosità e un sorriso: questo è il vero spirito della ricerca!
Un grande grazie a tutti i ricercatori che hanno reso questa notte così speciale 🙌

16/09/2025

Rome vibes + ICIAP2025

Yesterday we cooked not one but ✌️ international workshops:
🚁 (ADV) — led by PhD wizard Pasquale
🎨 vibes (FAPER) — led by PhD wizard Raffaele

Both absolutely crushed it. 🤯 Proud mentor moment 💪

Oh, and btw... we just dropped a collab with the Italian Ministry of Transport 🚦 — drones + road safety incoming. Stay tuned, it’s gonna be wild.

11/09/2025

Siamo felici di aver accolto l’Assessore regionale Fabiano Amati e l'ing. Cosimo Elefante per condividere i progressi del progetto M.A.M.M.A., nato per supportare le mamme pugliesi durante tutto il percorso della gravidanza. 🤰✨

Il progetto nasce dalla sinergia tra il CILab, guidato dalla prof.ssa Giovanna Castellano e lo SWAP, coordinato dal prof. Giovanni Semeraro: due laboratori di ricerca del DIB - Dipartimento di Informatica, dell’Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Un’iniziativa sostenuta dal partenariato FAIR – Future Ai Research un’AI davvero a misura di persona. 🚀❤️

27/08/2025

After the summer break, CILAB is back in the game… with not one, but two departures!

Today, we gathered for a heartfelt farewell lunch to send off our PhD researchers:
🔹 Nicola Fanelli, heading to Zurich with Eva Cetinic ( )
🔹 Emanuele Colonna, bound for the Canary Islands with Moises Diaz (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)

Prof. Giovanna Castellano is wishing them both an amazing journey! Like aliens on a cosmic mission, they’re about to land on unfamiliar planets—learning new routines, adapting to different rules, and soaking up fresh ideas and connections along the way.
And because even the most intrepid explorers need a memento, we gifted them “alien pens” 🛸—each engraved with messages like Out of this world and Aliens go together—to remind them that, no matter how far they roam, they’ll always belong to our united universe at CILAB.

Giovanna Castellano

03/08/2025

🎉 We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: the next edition of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) Conference will be hosted in 2027 by CILAB - Computational Intelligence Lab, part of the DIB - Dipartimento di Informatica at the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro !

📍 Mark your calendars and get ready to join us in the beautiful region of Apulia, Southern Italy, for a unique opportunity to connect, share, and advance research in fuzzy logic and computational intelligence.

We look forward to welcoming you to Bari — a city rich in history, culture, and innovation. Stay tuned for more updates!

23/07/2025

The new board of EUSFLAT – the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology – was officially elected in Riga during the general assembly at EUSFLAT 2025.

Best wishes to the new board, led by President José María Alonso Moral, and composed of many esteemed colleagues from the fuzzy community.
We’re proud and excited that two members of CILab, Prof. Corrado Mencar and Dr. , will be part of the board for the upcoming term.
They take on this role with enthusiasm and a strong commitment to supporting the growth and vitality of our scientific community.

During the meeting, it was also announced that the next EUSFLAT conference, EUSFLAT 2027, will be held in Bari and organized by CILab group: , Corrado Mencar, Ciro Castiello, , and .zaza .
Looking forward to welcoming you all in Bari! 🇮🇹

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Il nuovo board di EUSFLAT – la European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology – è stato ufficialmente eletto a Riga durante l’assemblea generale di EUSFLAT 2025.

I nostri migliori auguri al nuovo board, guidato dal Presidente José María Alonso Moral, insieme a tanti stimati colleghi della comunità fuzzy.
Siamo orgogliosi ed entusiasti che due membri del CILab, il Prof. Corrado Mencar e la Dott.ssa Gabriella Casalino, faranno parte del board per il prossimo mandato.
Un incarico che accolgono con entusiasmo e con un forte impegno a contribuire alla crescita e al dinamismo della nostra comunità scientifica.

Durante l’assemblea è stato inoltre annunciato che la prossima conferenza EUSFLAT, EUSFLAT 2027, si terrà a Bari e sarà organizzata dal gruppo di ricerca CILab: Giovanna Castellano, Corrado Mencar, Ciro Castiello, Rino Vessio e Gianluca Zaza.
Non vediamo l’ora di accogliervi tutti a Bari! 🇮🇹

19/07/2025

This July, we are pleased to welcome , a PhD student and research assistant from , to the Computational Intelligence Laboratory (CILab) of the at the .

His visit is part of an Erasmus+ mobility agreement.
During his stay — under the supervision of Dr. — Enes is working on the development of explainable AI (XAI) techniques for medical imaging, with the goal of enhancing transparency and interpretability in clinical decision-making supported by AI.

We were happy to celebrate his presence together with our PhD students, researchers, and our lab coordinator Prof. Giovanna Castellano — a valuable moment of scientific and cultural exchange.

Whether through a future visit to Ankara or by welcoming Enes again in Bari, we look forward to continuing this collaboration and exploring new research directions together.

To mark his time with us, we gifted him a small piece of our land — a t-shirt from with the words “Puglia is a state of mind.” A reminder that once you’ve been here, a part of Puglia always stays with you!

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16/07/2025

🎉 We’re proud to announce that the paper "I Dream My Painting: Connecting MLLMs and Diffusion Models via Prompt Generation for Text-Guided Multi-Mask Inpainting", authored by our PhD student Nicola Fanelli , has received an Honorable Mention for Best Paper from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Italy Chapter at !

🏆 The award was presented today at in Rome — a great recognition for work born at CILab – Computational Intelligence Laboratory, within the Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari.

👏 Congrats to Nico and co-authors, and special thanks to Giovanna Castellano and Rino Vessio for their continued guidance and support.

🙏 A heartfelt thank you to Alessandro Sperduti, Giosuè Lo Bosco (pictured), Pasquale Coscia, and the entire committee for recognizing this contribution.

16/07/2025

🧠🔍 Pushing the boundaries of understandable AI in healthcare!

Our PhD student .g.valerio presented our latest work at :
“Enhancing the Explainability of Neuro-Fuzzy Systems with Large Language Models: A Case Study on EEG-Based Epileptic Seizure Classification”
👥 , Giovanna Castellano, .g.valerio , Rino Vessio , Gianluca Zaza .

This study explores the integration of LLMs with neuro-fuzzy models to enhance interpretability and usability in critical decision-making scenarios.
🔹 The neuro-fuzzy model provides transparent, rule-based reasoning
🔹 LLM complements it with concise, context-aware explanations
🔹 A human-in-the-loop pipeline engages domain experts for validation
🔬 Tested on EEG data for epileptic seizure prediction, the approach aims to deliver insights that are both accurate and understandable.

Bravo, Alberto, for presenting this work with clarity and depth!👏
💡 A step toward interactive, explainable, and trustworthy AI — especially in healthcare where it matters most. This work was developed as part of Spoke 6 - Symbiotic AI, FAIR Future AI Research project.

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