AIRLab, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Alberto Archetti, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Artificial Intelligence

Tabular foundation models · Federated learning · Survival analysis

Biography

I am fascinated by emerging phenomena — how simple rules give rise to complex behavior, whether in vitro or in silico — and I find the field of artificial intelligence the ideal playground to study them.

As a postdoctoral researcher at AIRLab, Politecnico di Milano, I work on tabular foundation models, federated learning, and survival analysis, building models that learn from sensitive, multimodal data — turning scattered information into reliable, trustworthy predictions. I also love teaching and mentoring, and I take part in educational initiatives to promote AI literacy at all levels.

Research Interests

Tabular Foundation Models

Building general-purpose deep learning models for in-context learning on tabular data.

Survival Analysis

Predicting time-to-event outcomes for clinical data and financial applications.

Federated Learning

Training models across distributed, siloed datasets while preserving privacy.

Machine Learning for Healthcare

Applying AI to multimodal healthcare data, with a focus on privacy, interpretability, and reliability.

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Selected Publications

Google Scholar

  1. Mastroleo, M., Archetti, Alberto, Mastroleo, F., Matteucci, M. (2026). SurvKAN: A Fully Parametric Survival Model Based on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks. 2026 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).

  2. Archetti, Alberto, Lomurno, E., Piccinotti, D., Matteucci, M. (2025). FPBoost: Fully Parametric Gradient Boosting for Survival Analysis. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI).

  3. Archetti, Alberto, Stranieri, F., Matteucci, M. (2024). Bridging the gap: improve neural survival models with interpolation techniques. Progress in Artificial Intelligence.

  4. Archetti, Alberto, Ieva, F., Matteucci, M. (2023). Scaling survival analysis in healthcare with federated survival forests: A comparative study on heart failure and breast cancer genomics. Future Generation Computer Systems.

  5. Archetti, Alberto, Matteucci, M. (2023). Federated Survival Forests. 2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).

Experience

Research Fellow

2025 – present AIRLab, Politecnico di Milano · Milan, Italy

Research topic — Tabular foundation models for healthcare.

National Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence for Industry 4.0

2021 – 2025 Politecnico di Torino · Turin, Italy

Research topic — Federated Learning for Survival Analysis.

Collaborations — Research visitor at the Human Technopole, Milan, Italy.

Research Internship

2021 Politecnico di Milano · Milan, Italy

Activities — Data analysis for anomaly detection; automated knowledge graph extraction.

Education

National Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence for Industry 4.0

2021 – 2025 Politecnico di Torino

Thesis — Federated Survival Analysis: Ensemble and Neural Methods for Distributed Time-to-Event Data

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

2018 – 2021 Politecnico di Milano · 110/110 cum Laude

Thesis — Neural Weighted A*: Learning Graph Costs and Heuristics with Differentiable Anytime A*

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

2015 – 2018 Politecnico di Milano · 110/110 cum Laude

Diploma di Liceo Scientifico

2010 – 2015 Madonna della Neve · 100/100

Projects

AI-SPRINT

2021 – 2023 European Commission · Horizon 2020 (GA 101016577) · Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Artificial Intelligence in Secure PRIvacy-preserving computing coNTinuum

Role — Federated Learning advisor

Teaching Activities

AI Bootcamp

2026 Teaching Assistant · TechCamp@PoliMI · 15h

Advanced Deep Learning

2026 Teaching Assistant · MSc · 10h

AI Bootcamp

2025 Teaching Assistant · TechCamp@PoliMI · 15h

AI Product Management Bootcamp

2025 Teaching Assistant · Corporate Training · 6h

Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Learning

2025 Teaching Assistant · MSc · 20h

Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Learning

2024 Teaching Assistant · MSc · 20h

AI Bootcamp

2024 Teaching Assistant · TechCamp@PoliMI · 15h

Coding Bootcamp

2024 Teaching Assistant · TechCamp@PoliMI · 15h

Software Engineering

2024 Lab Tutor · BSc · 32h

Coding Bootcamp

2023 Teaching Assistant · TechCamp@PoliMI · 15h

Software Engineering

2023 Lab Tutor · BSc · 32h

Coding Bootcamp

2022 Teaching Assistant · TechCamp@PoliMI · 30h

Software Engineering

2022 Lab Tutor · BSc · 32h

Supervision

Pinar Erbil

2026 MSc thesis · Co-advisor

Deep Variational Contrastive Learning for Risk Stratification and Time-to-Event Estimation

Marina Mastroleo

2026 MSc thesis · Co-advisor

SurvKAN: Fully Parametric Survival Modeling with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Sofia Perini

2026 MSc thesis · Co-advisor

Exploring multimodality in federated survival analysis

Emanuele Paesano

2025 MSc thesis · Co-advisor

A multimodal framework for survival analysis integrating clinical, genomic, histopathological and textual data

Niccolò Maria Rizzi

2025 MSc thesis · Co-advisor

A generative pipeline for high-quality synthetic survival datasets

Gabriele Giusti

2025 MSc thesis · Co-advisor

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for emergent molecular communication in diffusion-based environments

Andrea Menta

2023 MSc thesis · Co-advisor

Image restoration via Latent Neural Cellular Automata

Simone Cimmino

2022 MSc thesis · Co-advisor

A pipeline for company industrial sector classification from unstructured website content

Sara Sacco

2022 MSc thesis · Co-advisor

Analisi spettrale per il rilevamento di anomalie: studio sulla sopravvivenza degli estensimetri a corda per Snam S.p.A.

Talks

SurvKAN: A Fully Parametric Survival Model Based on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

2026 Conference talk · Maastricht, Netherlands

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)

Deep Variational Contrastive Learning for Joint Risk Stratification and Time-to-Event Estimation

2026 Conference talk · Maastricht, Netherlands

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)

FPBoost: Fully Parametric Gradient Boosting for Survival Analysis

2025 Conference talk · Bologna, Italy

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)

Discriminative adversarial privacy: balancing accuracy and membership privacy in neural networks

2024 Conference talk · Aberdeen, Scotland

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)

Federated Survival Forests

2023 Conference talk · Broadbeach, Australia

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

Deep Survival Analysis for Healthcare: An Empirical Study on Post-Processing Techniques

2023 Conference talk · Rome, Italy

AIxIA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence For Healthcare

Federated Survival Analysis

2022 Conference talk · Udine, Italy

AIxIA Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining

Federated and Privacy-Preserving Learning

2022 Seminar · Milan, Italy

PhD Lecture, Politecnico di Milano

Neural Weighted A*: Learning Graph Costs and Heuristics with Differentiable Anytime A*

2021 Conference talk · Grasmere, England

Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD)

Awards and Achievements

Special Mention for Best Paper

2021 LOD 2021 — 7th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science

Honours Programme: Scientific Research in Information Technology

2021 Politecnico di Milano