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Arthur Capozzi

Postdoc and lecturer @ETH Zurich

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About Me

I am a data enthusiast with a particular passion for complex networks and systems. I am a postdoc in the COSS research group at ETH Zurich and lecturer in the Data Science in Techno-Socio-Economic Systems course.

I co-founded aequa-tech, a Turin-based spin-off developing NLP, machine learning, and complex networks tools with a focus on fairness and digital disparity. My work spans data science, network analysis, graph neural networks, NLP, and data visualization.

Bio

Age
36
Email
Address
Stampfenbachstrasse 48, 8006, Zürich, Switzerland

Work Experience

Postdoc and Lecturer at ETH Zurich, COSS research group
Jun 2024 – present
Postdoctoral researcher in the COSS group led by Prof. Dirk Helbing, and lecturer for Data Science in Techno-Socio-Economic Systems.
Co-founder of aequa-tech, Turin
Jul 2023 – present
Co-founded a university spin-off developing NLP, machine learning, and complex network tools while addressing fairness and digital disparity.
PhD researcher in Computer Science at the University of Turin
Nov 2020 – May 2024
Worked across academic and industry research projects with CENTAI Institute, AFC Digital Hub, and ISI Foundation. Research covered polarization and balance in complex networks, fraud detection in temporal transaction networks, and social media analysis. Supervised student theses in computer science, stochastics, data science, and physics of complex systems.
Research Fellow at ISI Foundation, Turin
Sep 2019 – Nov 2020
Lagrange applied research fellowship in social media analysis, data science, machine learning, and NLP.
Teaching Assistant, Web Technologies at the University of Turin
2018 – 2022
Supported students preparing for exams and reviewed their course project work.
Research Fellow, Talenti Società Civile at the University of Turin
Feb 2019 – Aug 2019
Studied quality of life across Turin neighbourhoods and the differences between residents’ perceptions and measured data, with CRT Foundation funding.
Research Scholarship at the University of Turin
Oct 2017 – Jan 2019
Contributed to a European project monitoring the spread of hate speech on Italian social media.
Thesis Internship at Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, Turin
Apr 2017 – Jul 2017
Developed a data visualization dashboard for anti-financial-crime transaction analysis.

Awards

Best Methods Award, CSCW 2025
2025
Narratives of war: Ukrainian memetic warfare on Twitter.
Yelena Mejova, Arthur Capozzi, Corrado Monti, and Gianmarco De Francisci Morales. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9(2) (2025): 1–28.
Best Paper, CHI 2021
2021
Clandestino or Rifugiato? Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy.
Arthur Capozzi et al. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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Best Paper, SocInfo 2020
2020
Facebook Ads: Politics of Migration in Italy.
Arthur Capozzi et al. Social Informatics: 12th International Conference, SocInfo 2020, Pisa, Italy, October 6–9, 2020. Springer International Publishing.

Notable Publications

2026

Agentic Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Auditable Commercial Registry Analysis. Arthur Capozzi and Dirk Helbing.
IEEE Access (2026).

Breaking the code: Multi-level learning in the Eurovision Song Contest. Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Arthur Capozzi, and Dirk Helbing.
Royal Society Open Science (2026).

Beyond the tax haven: a graph analysis of business attraction in Swiss municipalities. Arthur Capozzi et al.
EPJ Data Science (2026).

2025

Exploiting graph metrics to detect anomalies in cross-country money transfer temporal networks. Salvatore Vilella et al.
Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023.

Weirdnodes: centrality based anomaly detection on temporal networks for the anti-financial crime domain. Salvatore Vilella et al.
Applied Network Science 10.1 (2025): 14.

FlowSeries: flow analysis on financial networks. Arthur Capozzi et al.
Applied Network Science 10.1, p. 28 (2025).

Narratives of war: Ukrainian memetic warfare on Twitter. Yelena Mejova et al.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9.2 (2025): 1–28.

2023

Analyzing and visualizing polarization and balance with signed networks: the US Congress case study. Arthur Capozzi et al.
Journal of Complex Networks 11(4), 2023.

The Thin Ideology of Populist Advertising on Facebook during the 2019 EU Elections. Arthur Capozzi et al.
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2852–2862.

Education

PhD in Computer Science at the University of Turin
2020 – 2024
Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the University of Turin
2014 – 2017
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at the University of Perugia
2009 – 2013

Contact

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