Welcome to HERCOLE Lab

Human-Explainable, Robust, and COllaborative LEarning.

Welcome to HERCOLE Lab
About us

At the HERCOLE Lab, our research mission is to advance the development of next-generation machine learning and artificial intelligence systems that are not only powerful, but also understandable, resilient, and decentralized.

We strive to make AI systems more interpretable and transparent to human users, enabling greater trust and collaboration. We design algorithms that are robust to adversarial attacks, ensuring reliability in real-world conditions.

Moreover, we design intelligent systems that can operate efficiently on edge devices, enabling local decision-making, enhancing privacy, and reducing reliance on centralized infrastructures.

Through interdisciplinary research and innovation, we aim to shape AI that is more human-centered, secure, and scalable.

Lab Director
Gabriele Tolomei

Associate Professor of Computer Science

PhD Students
External Collaborators
Flavio Giorgi

CTO and CEO of TellMewAI; Postdoc at Sapienza University of Rome

TellMewAI
Fabio Pinelli

Associate Professor of Computer Science

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Fabrizio Silvestri

Full Professor of Computer Science

Giuseppe Perelli

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Ziheng Chen

Research Scientist

Walmart Labs, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Giovanni Trappolini

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Cesare Campagnano

Senior Research Scientist

Recent News

TRACER accepted at NeurIPS 2026

TRACER helps generative recommender systems forget unwanted concepts while preserving the quality of other recommendations.