Tommaso

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Recent updates, achievements, and announcements.

July 14, 2025

🎓 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation on July 14.

Dissertation teaser
June 23, 2025

🏆 Thrilled to announce that our paper From Web to Figma received the Best Late Breaking Result Award at EICS Companion 2025!

June 01, 2025

🧠 Excited to share that our paper Advancing Code Generation from Visual Designs through Transformer-Based Architectures and Specialized Datasets has been accepted at PACM EICS 2025! We explore multimodal transformers and new datasets to automate code generation from sketches and mockups.

February 07, 2025

🛠 Thrilled to share that our paper DeepFlow: A Flow-Based Visual Programming Tool for Deep Learning Development was accepted at IUI 2025! DeepFlow enables scalable model design through hierarchical abstraction and supports interactive debugging to validate architectures before execution.

February 07, 2025

📝 Excited to announce that our paper Investigating How Computer Science Researchers Design Their Co‑Writing Experiences With AI was accepted at CHI 2025! We studied how researchers adapt and integrate intelligent writing assistants into their scientific writing workflows.

November 21, 2024

📚 Delivered an invited talk on “End-User Development for User Interfaces” in Prof. Hoffman’s CS 568 - AI in Adaptive Educational Technology course at Worcester University. The lecture explored approaches for empowering non-programmers to customize and create interactive interfaces, emphasizing practical applications in educational technology.

October 29, 2024

🎓 Sharing my final PhD research poster titled “From Human Representations to AI Realization: Algorithms and Tools for Creating and Refining Interactive Systems” at the upcoming PhD Computer and Control Engineering - DAUIN Poster Day. The poster will be presented on November 6th, 2024 at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering.