Massimiliano Ruocco
About
Massimiliano is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, in the Data and Artificial Intelligent Group with a strong focus on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He has extensive expertise in deep neural networks, modern AI for time series analysis, active learning, and self-supervised learning. Massimiliano has applied his skills in various industries including energy, telecommunication, healthcare, and sports, and has experience in both hardcore machine learning as well as applied machine learning in real-world industrial cases.
Massimiliano has a deep understanding of the latest advancements in AI and is able to apply this knowledge to real-world applications. He has successfully managed projects in a variety of industries and is committed to using AI to solve complex problems and improve operations.
He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and expertise with others, and enjoys working with students to involve them in AI projects.
Current Projects:
- ML4ITS - Machine Learning for Irregular Time Series (2021 - 2024) [Coordinator]
- RICO - Robust Intelligent Control (2022 - 2025) [WP Leader]
- BARTIMAEUS - New Automatic Tool Replacement System with Intelligent Machine Vision Features for the Machining Industry (2021 -2025) [WPLeader]
- LANDSKAPE - Hybrid Physical-Based Deep Learning for Fast and Reliable Wind Flow Estimation (2021 -2023) [WP Leader and Scientific Coordinator]
Research
Artifical Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Self-Supervised Learning
Time Series Analysis
Active Learning
Publications
2025
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Aftab, Sofia;
Ramampiaro, Heri;
Langseth, Helge;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2025)
Improving Top-N Recommendations: Leveraging Pair-Wise Deep Learning Methods and Evaluation Metrics Contextual modeling, Pair-wise loss functions and Metric enhancement.
NTNU Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
NTNU Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation
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Thiry, Zachari;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Nocente, Alessandro;
Oksavik, Odne Andreas.
(2025)
The RICO dataset: A multivariate HVAC indoors and outdoors time-series dataset.
Data in Brief
Academic article
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Spitieris, Michail;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Murad, Abdulmajid Abdullah Yahya;
Nocente, Alessandro.
(2025)
PIGPVAE: physics-informed gaussian process variational autoencoders.
Applied Intelligence - The International Journal of Research on Intelligent Systems for Real Life Complex Problems
Academic article
2024
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Thiry, Zachari;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Nocente, Alessandro;
Spitieris, Michail.
(2024)
Enhancing Indoor Temperature Forecasting through Synthetic Data in Low-Data Regime.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Clemente, Alfredo;
Giljarhus, Knut Erik Teigen;
Oggiano, Luca;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2024)
Rapid pedestrian-level wind field prediction for early-stage design using Pareto-optimized convolutional neural networks.
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Academic article
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Kristoffersen, Simen;
Nordby, Peter;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Malacarne, Sara;
Ortiz, Pablo.
(2024)
SiamTST: A Novel Representation Learning Framework for Enhanced Multivariate Time Series Forecasting applied to Telco Networks.
arXiv.org
Academic article
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Aemmer, Zack;
Sørbø, Sondre;
Clemente, Alfredo;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2024)
Generalization strategies for improving bus travel time prediction across networks.
Journal of Urban Management
Academic article
2023
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Haugsdal, Espen;
Malacarne, Sara;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2023)
Circle Attention: Forecasting Network Traffic by Learning Interpretable Spatial Relationships from Intersecting Circles.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Sørbø, Sondre;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2023)
Navigating the metric maze: a taxonomy of evaluation metrics for anomaly detection in time series.
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Academic article
-
Haugsdal, Espen;
Aune, Erlend;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2023)
Persistence Initialization: a novel adaptation of the Transformer architecture for time series forecasting.
Applied Intelligence - The International Journal of Research on Intelligent Systems for Real Life Complex Problems
Academic article
-
Aftab, Sofia;
Ramampiaro, Heri;
Langseth, Helge;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2023)
Deep Contextual Grid Triplet Network for Context-Aware Recommendation.
IEEE Access
Academic article
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Clemente, Alfredo;
Nocente, Alessandro;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2023)
Global Transformer Architecture for Indoor Room Temperature Forecasting.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
Academic article
2019
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Bach, Kerstin;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2019)
Nordic Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Third Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society, NAIS 2019.
Springer
Springer
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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Vassøy, Bjørnar;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Silva, Eliezer de Souza da;
Aune, Erlend.
(2019)
Time is of the essence: A joint Hierarchical RNN and Point Process model for time and item predictions.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Bach, Kerstin;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2019)
Nordic Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Porc. of Third Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society, NAIS 2019.
Springer
Springer
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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Phan, Johan;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Scibilia, Francesco.
(2019)
Dual active sampling on batch-incremental active learning.
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
Academic article
2018
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Agarwal, Basant;
Ramampiaro, Heri;
Langseth, Helge;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2018)
A deep network model for paraphrase detection in short text messages.
Information Processing & Management
Academic article
2017
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Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Skrede, Ole Steinar Lillestøl;
Langseth, Helge.
(2017)
Inter-Session Modeling for Session-Based Recommendation.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
2015
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Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2015)
Geo-Temporal Distribution of Tag Terms for Event-Related Image Retrieval.
Information Processing & Management
Academic article
2014
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Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2014)
A scalable algorithm for extraction and clustering of event-related pictures.
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Academic article
2013
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Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2013)
Event-Related Image Retrieval: Exploring Geographical and Temporal Distribution of User Tags.
International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval
Academic article
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Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2013)
Exploring Temporal Proximity and Spatial Distribution of Terms in Web-based Search of Event-Related Images.
ACM Hypertext Proceedings
Academic article
2012
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Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2012)
Exploratory Analysis on Heterogeneous Tag-Point Patterns for Ranking and Extracting Hot-Spot Related Tags.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2012)
Context-aware image semantic extraction in the social web.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2011
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Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2011)
NTNU@MediaEval 2011 Social Event Detection Task (SED).
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Academic article
2010
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Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2010)
Event Clusters Detection on Flickr Images using a Suffix-Tree Structure.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Journal publications
-
Thiry, Zachari;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Nocente, Alessandro;
Oksavik, Odne Andreas.
(2025)
The RICO dataset: A multivariate HVAC indoors and outdoors time-series dataset.
Data in Brief
Academic article
-
Spitieris, Michail;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Murad, Abdulmajid Abdullah Yahya;
Nocente, Alessandro.
(2025)
PIGPVAE: physics-informed gaussian process variational autoencoders.
Applied Intelligence - The International Journal of Research on Intelligent Systems for Real Life Complex Problems
Academic article
-
Clemente, Alfredo;
Giljarhus, Knut Erik Teigen;
Oggiano, Luca;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2024)
Rapid pedestrian-level wind field prediction for early-stage design using Pareto-optimized convolutional neural networks.
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Academic article
-
Kristoffersen, Simen;
Nordby, Peter;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Malacarne, Sara;
Ortiz, Pablo.
(2024)
SiamTST: A Novel Representation Learning Framework for Enhanced Multivariate Time Series Forecasting applied to Telco Networks.
arXiv.org
Academic article
-
Aemmer, Zack;
Sørbø, Sondre;
Clemente, Alfredo;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2024)
Generalization strategies for improving bus travel time prediction across networks.
Journal of Urban Management
Academic article
-
Sørbø, Sondre;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2023)
Navigating the metric maze: a taxonomy of evaluation metrics for anomaly detection in time series.
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Academic article
-
Haugsdal, Espen;
Aune, Erlend;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2023)
Persistence Initialization: a novel adaptation of the Transformer architecture for time series forecasting.
Applied Intelligence - The International Journal of Research on Intelligent Systems for Real Life Complex Problems
Academic article
-
Aftab, Sofia;
Ramampiaro, Heri;
Langseth, Helge;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2023)
Deep Contextual Grid Triplet Network for Context-Aware Recommendation.
IEEE Access
Academic article
-
Clemente, Alfredo;
Nocente, Alessandro;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2023)
Global Transformer Architecture for Indoor Room Temperature Forecasting.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
Academic article
-
Phan, Johan;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Scibilia, Francesco.
(2019)
Dual active sampling on batch-incremental active learning.
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
Academic article
-
Agarwal, Basant;
Ramampiaro, Heri;
Langseth, Helge;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2018)
A deep network model for paraphrase detection in short text messages.
Information Processing & Management
Academic article
-
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2015)
Geo-Temporal Distribution of Tag Terms for Event-Related Image Retrieval.
Information Processing & Management
Academic article
-
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2014)
A scalable algorithm for extraction and clustering of event-related pictures.
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Academic article
-
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2013)
Event-Related Image Retrieval: Exploring Geographical and Temporal Distribution of User Tags.
International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval
Academic article
-
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2013)
Exploring Temporal Proximity and Spatial Distribution of Terms in Web-based Search of Event-Related Images.
ACM Hypertext Proceedings
Academic article
-
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2011)
NTNU@MediaEval 2011 Social Event Detection Task (SED).
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Academic article
Books
-
Bach, Kerstin;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2019)
Nordic Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Third Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society, NAIS 2019.
Springer
Springer
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Bach, Kerstin;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2019)
Nordic Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Porc. of Third Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society, NAIS 2019.
Springer
Springer
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Skrede, Ole Steinar Lillestøl;
Langseth, Helge.
(2017)
Inter-Session Modeling for Session-Based Recommendation.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Part of book/report
-
Thiry, Zachari;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Nocente, Alessandro;
Spitieris, Michail.
(2024)
Enhancing Indoor Temperature Forecasting through Synthetic Data in Low-Data Regime.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Haugsdal, Espen;
Malacarne, Sara;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2023)
Circle Attention: Forecasting Network Traffic by Learning Interpretable Spatial Relationships from Intersecting Circles.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Vassøy, Bjørnar;
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Silva, Eliezer de Souza da;
Aune, Erlend.
(2019)
Time is of the essence: A joint Hierarchical RNN and Point Process model for time and item predictions.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2012)
Exploratory Analysis on Heterogeneous Tag-Point Patterns for Ranking and Extracting Hot-Spot Related Tags.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2012)
Context-aware image semantic extraction in the social web.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Ruocco, Massimiliano;
Ramampiaro, Heri.
(2010)
Event Clusters Detection on Flickr Images using a Suffix-Tree Structure.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
-
Aftab, Sofia;
Ramampiaro, Heri;
Langseth, Helge;
Ruocco, Massimiliano.
(2025)
Improving Top-N Recommendations: Leveraging Pair-Wise Deep Learning Methods and Evaluation Metrics Contextual modeling, Pair-wise loss functions and Metric enhancement.
NTNU Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
NTNU Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2021
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LectureClauß, John; Ruocco, Massimiliano. (2021) Databygg-project and how we use machine learning to predict building energy use. Prosjekt Norge Webinar 2021-11-25 -
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LectureRuocco, Massimiliano; Malacarne, Sara. (2021) Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly Detection on Telco multivariate time series. Friday AI webinar , Trondheim 2021-11-12 - 2021-11-12