Something about me

• I graduated at the Computer Science Department (DI) of the University of Milano; my graduation thesis was about concurrency and domain theory, and it was titled Automi concorrenti e teoria dei domini ("Concurrent Automata and Domain Theory"; advisors: Prof. Nicoletta Sabadini and Felice Cardone).
• I thereafter attended the Ph.D. Program of Computer Science (VIII cycle) and I received my Ph.D. with a dissertation titled Measurement and Approximation of Infinite Structures via Tolerance Spaces (advisors: Prof. Felice Cardone, Manfred Droste, Nicoletta Sabadini).
• Presently I am full professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Milano.

My current research interests

• Distributed systems, anonymity
• Sense of direction
• Models of computation over the reals
• Concurrency theory
• Applied graph theory
• Web crawling and indexing
• Web graphs

Some of my recent papers

• Recognizing distance-count matrices. P Boldi, C Prezioso, F Furia, I Stewart. PLoS One 21 (7), e0352427 (2026).
• Revisiting Minamata disease through computational phenotypic similarity analysis. E Marchi, P Boldi, E Casiraghi, S Zapperi, CAM La Porta. Plos one 21 (2), e0342655 (2026).
• The role of fibration symmetries in geometric deep learning. OM Velarde, LC Parra, P Boldi, HA Makse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 (4), e2416552123 (2026).
• Properties and expressivity of linear geometric centralities. P Boldi, F Furia, C Prezioso. Theoretical Computer Science, 115640 (2025).
• Score and rank semi-monotonicity for closeness, betweenness, and distance–decay centralities. P Boldi, D D’Ascenzo, F Furia, S Vigna. Social Network Analysis and Mining 14 (1), 183 (2024).