Thesis proposals

We offer a number of M.Sc. thesis proposals for POLIMI students. If you’re interested in a specific topic, reach out to the thesis advisor.

Proposals from M. Brambilla

Explainable AI (XAI)
- Explainability of CNNs
- Explainability of tabular data
- Human-in-the-loop Explainability
- Gamified Data Collection for NLP Explainability Tasks
- Gamified Approaches to Evaluate the Understandability of Explainations
Neuro-Simbolic AI
Data Science
- Combining Big Data, Data Engineering, and Data Science (ML, dataviz, NLP) for:
  - Societal challenges
  - Socio-political settings
  - Economy, ethics
  - News and disinformation
Gamification
ChatGPT for Software Engineering and Modeling
- Analyze the use, configuration, and features of ChatGPT
- Understand the strength and weaknesses of when generating answers to software questions
- Implement and analyze ChatGPT as generator of UML/IFML or BPMN models

M.Sc. Thesis Topics and Proposals @ Polimi Data Science Lab – 2024 – prof. Brambilla Marco from Marco Brambilla

Thesis Topics and Proposals @ Polimi Data Science Lab – 2023 – prof. Brambilla Marco from Marco Brambilla

Leveraging Large Language Models (chatGPT et al.) to detect and fact-check online misinformation
Detecting and modeling Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on Meta platforms
Investigating conspiracy theories on TikTok and YouTube
Investigate political targeted advertisement on Meta (Facebook, Instagram) platforms
Studying adolescents’ usage of social media through digital data donations

Analysis of convergent evolution in SARS-CoV-2 impacting anti-viral therapies
Warning system for viral genomic surveillance in public health contexts
A data-driven approach for storing and analyzing Causal Loop Diagrams
Extending and applying topic modeling with Multi-Label Topic Models
Building user interfaces for dynamic topic modeling visualization and exploration
User validation studies for domain-specific search systems
Design and implementation of a unifying FAIR repository for genomic tracks