2026 Francesco Piazza: 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	36	11147	10830	357	355	375	6403

Francesco Piazza publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesco Piazza sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 375 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Francesco Piazza D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesco Piazza sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Francesco Piazza is affiliated with Marche Polytechnic University in Italy. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on several subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology, Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Modeling and Simulation.

The scientist's work covers a spectrum of topics such as Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism, Theoretical and Computational Physics, Protein Structure and Dynamics, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and Quantum and Electron Transport Phenomena.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Francesco Piazza include:

"Analysis and forecast of COVID-19 spreading in China, Italy and France" (2020) Chaos Solitons & Fractals
"Dissipation-driven selection of states in non-equilibrium chemical networks" (2021) Communications Chemistry
"The physics of boundary conditions in reaction-diffusion problems" (2022) The Journal of Chemical Physics
"COVID-19: The unreasonable effectiveness of simple models" (2020) Chaos Solitons & Fractals X
"Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior from Cavity Electromagnetic Vacuum Fluctuations at the Superradiant Transition" (2023) Physical Review Letters

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

Daniel Maria Busiello
Paolo De Los Rios
Josef Hamáček
Duccio Fanelli
Shiling Liang

Publications by Francesco Piazza have appeared repeatedly in several venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical Review Letters
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Nature Communications
Chaos Solitons & Fractals

Best Publications

On the complex backpropagation algorithm

N. Benvenuto;F. Piazza

434
Citations
Optimal Home Energy Management Under Dynamic Electrical and Thermal Constraints

Francesco De Angelis;Matteo Boaro;Danilo Fuselli;Stefano Squartini

308
Citations
Unsupervised electric motor fault detection by using deep autoencoders

Emanuele Principi;Damiano Rossetti;Stefano Squartini;Francesco Piazza

230
Citations
Non-intrusive load monitoring by using active and reactive power in additive Factorial Hidden Markov Models

Roberto Bonfigli;Emanuele Principi;Marco Fagiani;Marco Severini

227
Citations
On-line learning algorithms for locally recurrent neural networks

P. Campolucci;A. Uncini;F. Piazza;B.D. Rao

221
Citations
Learning and approximation capabilities of adaptive spline activation function neutral networks

Lorenzo Vecci;Francesco Piazza;Aurelio Uncini

184
Citations
Denoising autoencoders for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring: Improvements and comparative evaluation

Roberto Bonfigli;Andrea Felicetti;Emanuele Principi;Marco Fagiani

184
Citations
Fast neural networks without multipliers

M. Marchesi;G. Orlandi;F. Piazza;A. Uncini

182
Citations
Action dependent heuristic dynamic programming for home energy resource scheduling

Danilo Fuselli;Francesco De Angelis;Matteo Boaro;Stefano Squartini

170
Citations
Multilayer feedforward networks with adaptive spline activation function

S. Guarnieri;F. Piazza;A. Uncini

164
Citations
Unsupervised algorithms for non-intrusive load monitoring: An up-to-date overview

Roberto Bonfigli;Stefano Squartini;Marco Fagiani;Francesco Piazza

148
Citations
Sentic Web: A New Paradigm for Managing Social Media Affective Information

Marco Grassi;Erik Cambria;Amir Hussain;Francesco Piazza

124
Citations
Fast combinatorial RNS processors for DSP applications

E.D. Di Claudio;F. Piazza;G. Orlandi

118
Citations
Neural networks with digital LUT activation functions

F. Piazza;A. Uncini;M. Zenobi

117
Citations
Complex-valued neural networks with adaptive spline activation function for digital-radio-links nonlinear equalization

A. Uncini;L. Vecci;P. Campolucci;F. Piazza

108
Citations
Adaptive Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Renewable Energy Scheduling and Battery Management

Matteo Boaro;Danilo Fuselli;Francesco De Angelis;Derong Liu

95
Citations
Signing individual fragments of an RDF graph

Giovanni Tummarello;Christian Morbidoni;Paolo Puliti;Francesco Piazza

87
Citations
Online sequential extreme learning machine in nonstationary environments

Yibin Ye;Stefano Squartini;Francesco Piazza

77
Citations
Efficient genetic algorithm design for power-of-two FIR filters

P. Gentili;F. Piazza;A. Uncini

73
Citations
Non linear satellite radio links equalized using blind neural networks

N. Benvenuto;M. Marchesi;F. Piazza;A. Uncini

72
Citations
A neural network based algorithm for speaker localization in a multi-room environment

Fabio Vesperini;Paolo Vecchiotti;Emanuele Principi;Stefano Squartini

70
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Squartini Marche Polytechnic University

Aurelio Uncini Sapienza University of Rome

Michele Marchesi University of Cagliari

Amir Hussain Edinburgh Napier University

Junfeng Li Chinese Academy of Sciences

Qinglai Wei Macau University of Science and Technology

Derong Liu University of Illinois at Chicago

Erik Cambria Nanyang Technological University

Marcos Faundez-Zanuy Pompeu Fabra University

Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy Clemson University

External Links

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