Thesis proposals

M.Sc. thesis proposals for POLIMI students

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

Proposals from F. Pierri

  • 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

Proposals from A. Bernasconi

Here are the available theses projects. For a complete overview, please visit my personal page: Theses – Anna Bernasconi ⇢

  • Warning system for viral genomic surveillance in public health contexts
  • Advanced topic modeling and classification framework for legal text
  • Design and implementation of a unifying FAIR repository for genomic tracks