2026 Dino Pedreschi: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	72	1666	1615	21	21	342	22080

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Dino Pedreschi is affiliated with the University of Pisa in Italy and specializes in research at the intersection of computer science and social sciences. Their work prominently covers artificial intelligence, with significant contributions in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), human mobility, and machine learning applied to healthcare and social contexts.

The main fields of study that frame Pedreschi's research include:

Computer Science
Social Sciences

Within these broader domains, their subfields of focus are:

Artificial Intelligence
Transportation
Sociology and Political Science
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Pedreschi's primary research topics cover a range of areas, emphasizing explainability, human-centered analysis, and healthcare applications in AI:

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Machine Learning in Healthcare
Machine Learning and Data Classification
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Their recent publications include:

'Benchmarking and survey of explanation methods for black box models,' 2023, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
'Methods and tools for causal discovery and causal inference,' 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
'GLocalX - From Local to Global Explanations of Black Box AI Models,' 2021, Artificial Intelligence
'Understanding the impact of explanations on advice-taking: a user study for AI-based clinical Decision Support Systems,' 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
'Human migration: the big data perspective,' 2020, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Fosca Giannotti
Riccardo Guidotti
Luca Pappalardo
Anna Monreale
Mirco Nanni

A number of venues have hosted Pedreschi's work, highlighting their interdisciplinary engagement, particularly in computer science and data science disciplines:

arXiv (Cornell University)
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
Ethics and Information Technology
CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Pisa)
SSRN Electronic Journal

In addition to journal articles and conference papers, Pedreschi has contributed to books published by notable publishers. These include titles addressing social informatics and factors affecting performance and recovery in team sports.

Best Publications

A Survey of Methods for Explaining Black Box Models

Riccardo Guidotti;Anna Monreale;Salvatore Ruggieri;Franco Turini

4110
Citations
Trajectory pattern mining

Fosca Giannotti;Mirco Nanni;Fabio Pinelli;Dino Pedreschi

1405
Citations
Human mobility, social ties, and link prediction

Dashun Wang;Dino Pedreschi;Chaoming Song;Fosca Giannotti

861
Citations
Time-focused clustering of trajectories of moving objects

Mirco Nanni;Dino Pedreschi

613
Citations
Returners and explorers dichotomy in human mobility

Luca Pappalardo;Filippo Simini;Salvatore Rinzivillo;Dino Pedreschi;Dino Pedreschi

506
Citations
A classification for community discovery methods in complex networks

Michele Coscia;Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

460
Citations
Unveiling the complexity of human mobility by querying and mining massive trajectory data

Fosca Giannotti;Mirco Nanni;Dino Pedreschi;Fabio Pinelli

398
Citations
Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy: Geographic Knowledge Discovery

Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

391
Citations
A Survey Of Methods For Explaining Black Box Models

Riccardo Guidotti;Anna Monreale;Franco Turini;Dino Pedreschi

360
Citations
Machine Learning, ECML 2004

Jean-François Boulicaut;Floriana Esposito;Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

315
Citations
Factual and Counterfactual Explanations for Black Box Decision Making

Riccardo Guidotti;Anna Monreale;Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

313
Citations
Local Rule-Based Explanations of Black Box Decision Systems.

Riccardo Guidotti;Anna Monreale;Salvatore Ruggieri;Dino Pedreschi

305
Citations
Interactive visual clustering of large collections of trajectories

Gennady Andrienko;Natalia Andrienko;Salvatore Rinzivillo;Mirco Nanni

304
Citations
DEMON: a local-first discovery method for overlapping communities

Michele Coscia;Giulio Rossetti;Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

303
Citations
Visually driven analysis of movement data by progressive clustering

Salvatore Rinzivillo;Dino Pedreschi;Mirco Nanni;Fosca Giannotti

283
Citations
Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2004

Jean-François Boulicaut;Floriana Esposito;Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

274
Citations
Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy

Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

235
Citations
Reasoning about termination of pure Prolog programs

Krzysztof R. Apt;Dino Pedreschi

231
Citations
Measuring Discrimination in Socially-Sensitive Decision Records

Dino Pedreschi;Salvatore Ruggieri;Franco Turini

230
Citations
PlayeRank: Data-driven Performance Evaluation and Player Ranking in Soccer via a Machine Learning Approach

Luca Pappalardo;Paolo Cintia;Paolo Ferragina;Emanuele Massucco

228
Citations
Data mining for discrimination discovery

Salvatore Ruggieri;Dino Pedreschi;Franco Turini

217
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Fosca Giannotti Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Francesco Bonchi Institute for Scientific Interchange

Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

Natalia Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

Paolo Ferragina University of Pisa

Krzysztof R. Apt Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Stan Matwin Dalhousie University

Josep Domingo-Ferrer Rovira i Virgili University

János Kertész Central European University

Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich

External Links

Personal website of Dino Pedreschi Google Scholar page

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