Nicola Di Cicco

Final-year PhD Student @ PoliMi

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Building 20, 3rd floor

Via Giuseppe Ponzio, 34

Milan, Italy

I am a final-year PhD Student in Telecommunications at Politecnico di Milano under the supervision of Prof. Massimo Tornatore.

My work is mostly focused the integration of Machine Learning with communications network optimization, management, and control. How to design intelligent learning agents that can autonomously manage and control a network? How do they compare with classical optimization techniques? I wrote a couple of papers exploring these broad questions.

I am currently collaborating with Prof. Vittorio Degli Esposti within COST CA20120 INTERACT, and with Prof. Walter Cerroni for developing intelligent orchestrators for edge/fog networks.

I really enjoy videogames, with my favorites being (in no particular order) Metal Gear Solid, The Legend of Zelda, and FromSoftware games.

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selected publications

  1. ECOC PDP
    First Demonstration of Fine-Tuned LLM for Digital Twin Optical Networks: AI-Agent for Lifecycle Management and Automation
    Chenyu Sun, Xin Yang, Nicola Di Cicco, and 6 more authors
    In 50th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), 2024
  2. Machine Learning for Failure Management in Microwave Networks: A Data-Centric Approach
    Nicola Di Cicco, Memedhe Ibrahimi, Francesco Musumeci, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2024
  3. DeepLS: Local Search for Network Optimization based on Lightweight Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Nicola Di Cicco, Memedhe Ibrahimi, Sebastian Troia, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2023
  4. On Deep Reinforcement Learning for Static Routing and Wavelength Assignment
    Nicola Di Cicco, Emre Furkan Mercan, Oleg Karandin, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2022