Research

Publications & Talks

Selected scientific publications, conference contributions, and invited talks. The cards below are placeholders ready to be replaced with the full bibliography.

Molecular structure visualization
NeurIPS · 2024

Conditional Diffusion for Molecular Graph Generation

D. Rigoni, A. Sperduti, et al.

A score-based framework that conditions on target physicochemical properties for de novo molecule design.

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Open scientific journal pages
ICML Workshop · 2024

Knowledge Graph Extraction from Scientific Literature

D. Rigoni, M. Fabris, N. Navarin

An end-to-end pipeline that distills entities and relations from unstructured biomedical text.

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Abstract network of connected nodes
AAAI · 2023

Hierarchical VAEs for Constrained Graph Synthesis

D. Rigoni, N. Navarin, A. Sperduti

Variational architecture enforcing chemical validity constraints during generation.

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Pharmaceutical research laboratory
ECML-PKDD · 2023

Graph Neural Networks for Drug-Target Interaction

D. Rigoni, et al.

Message-passing models that improve interaction prediction across heterogeneous biomedical graphs.

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Data visualization charts on a screen
Journal of Chemical Information · 2022

Attention Mechanisms in Molecular Property Prediction

D. Rigoni, S. Bonechi, A. Sperduti

Comparative study of attention variants on QM9 and ZINC benchmarks.

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Speaker presenting at an academic seminar
Invited Talk · UniPD · 2022

From Words to Molecules: Generative AI for Discovery

Public seminar series

An accessible overview of how modern generative models are reshaping drug discovery.

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