Gabriele Civitarese

I'm an associate professor at Dept. of Computer Science at University of Milan. I got my Ph.D in Computer Science in 2018 at University of Milan. I'm a member of EveryWare Lab. My research interests cover human activity recognition, behavioral monitoring in smart-homes and context-awareness.

51Publications
1,389Citations
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Research

From symbolic knowledge infusion to large language models, I study robust and interpretable activity recognition models for real-world sensing environments. My research also extends to AI methods for Digital Health.

Academic Service

I regularly contribute to the organization and technical program of leading venues in pervasive computing, smart computing, and digital health.

Teaching

My teaching spans operating systems, ambient intelligence, domotics, and applied data science across undergraduate, graduate, and specialized courses.

Selected

Recent work

A compact selection of recent journal and conference papers.

2025 · Expert Systems With Applications

Multi-Subject Human Activities: A Survey of Recognition and Evaluation Methods Based on a Formal Framework

Luca Arrotta, Gabriele Civitarese, Xi Chen, Julien Cumin, Claudio Bettini

2025 · ACM Transactions on Internet of Things

Leveraging Large Language Models for Explainable Activity Recognition in Smart Homes: A Critical Evaluation

Michele Fiori, Gabriele Civitarese, Priyankar Choudhary, Claudio Bettini

2024 · Mobiquitous 2024

GNN-XAR: A Graph Neural Network for Explainable Activity Recognition in Smart Homes

Michele Fiori, Davide Mor, Gabriele Civitarese, Claudio Bettini

2024 · IEEE SmartComp 2024

ContextGPT: Infusing LLMs Knowledge into Neuro-Symbolic Activity Recognition Models

Luca Arrotta, Claudio Bettini, Gabriele Civitarese, Michele Fiori

Service Highlights

Editorial & Academic Service

A compact selection of editorial roles and conference organization activity.

2026-now

Associate Editor

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare
2024-now

Associate Editor

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
2026 · Pisa, Italy

Vice TPC Chair

24th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications.

2026 · Pisa, Italy

Workshop organizer

22nd Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition with Artificial Intelligence.

Teaching

Recent courses

Contact

Department and links

Room 7019, Seventh floor
Department of Computer Science
University of Milan
Via Celoria 18, I-20133 Milano, Italy

gabriele.civitarese@unimi.it
+39 02 503 16202