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I am a Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Macerata, within the VRAI — Vision, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence laboratory, working on Deep Learning and eXtended Reality in a multidisciplinary setting. I got a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Bologna in 2024, focusing on pipelining Artificial Intelligence and eXtended Reality paradigms for industrial and cultural heritage applications. Before that, I got a Master's degree in Computer Science. Since July 2026 I hold the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor in Information Processing Systems (IINF-05/A).

I decided to keep going with academic research because of my deep love for all that concerns multidisciplinary research, the data produced in this setting, and the knowledge that can be extracted from them. To me, recognizing patterns through Artificial Intelligence methods, and integrating them with eXtended Reality paradigms to define functional systems usable by anyone at any time, is one of the coolest things Computer Science can offer (and that completely conquered my heart).

I frame this line of work as eXtended Artificial Intelligence (XRAI): bringing computer vision, generative models and immersive interfaces together into systems that support human activity — across creative industries, cultural heritage, manufacturing, education, sport and retail.

National Scientific Qualification (ASN) — Associate Professor, Information Processing Systems (IINF-05/A), 2026–2038.

• Associate Editor, The Visual Computer (Springer) — since February 2025
• Lead Guest Editor, Virtual Reality (Springer) special issue on Agentic AI for Extended Reality
• Principal Organizer, XRAG '26 — 1st International Workshop on Agentic AI for Extended Reality @ IEEE ISMAR 2026
• Principal Organizer, HUARL — 1st International Workshop on Humans in the eXtended Artificial Intelligence Loop @ ICIAP 2025
• Session Chair, CREAI — Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity @ ECAI 2024
• Co-Chair, FAME special session — Fashion for Metaverse @ AIVR 2024
• Reviewer and Program Committee member for IEEE, ACM, Springer and Elsevier venues (ISMAR, IEEE VR, AAAI, ACM MM, ECCV, ICIAP, …)

• Cascarano, P., Stacchio, L., Sebastiani, A., Benfenati, A., Kamilov, U. S., & Marfia, G. (2026). RELD: Regularization by Latent Denoising. IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
• Balloni, E., Stacchio, L., Paolanti, M., Zingaretti, P., & Pierdicca, R. (2026). Orchestrating Generative AI Paradigms with Human-In-The-Loop for 3D Generation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
• Santarnecchi, E., Balloni, E., Paolanti, M., Frontoni, E., Stacchio, L., Zingaretti, P., & Pierdicca, R. (2025). MineVRA: Exploring the Role of Generative AI-Driven Content Development in XR Environments through a Context-Aware Approach. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 🏆 Best Paper, IEEE VR 2025
• Balloni, E., Stacchio, L., Mancini, A., Frontoni, E., Zingaretti, P., & Paolanti, M. (2025). A Neural Rendering system for fashion design process. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 153, 110773.
• Stacchio, L., Nepi, L., Paolanti, M., & Pierdicca, R. (2025). RSplitZero: generalized zero-shot learning in remote sensing across attribute splits with single and multi-modal representations. International Journal of Digital Earth, 18(2).
• Hajahmadi, S., Stacchio, L., Giacchè, A., Cascarano, P., & Marfia, G. (2024). Investigating eXtended Reality-powered digital twins for sequential instruction learning: The case of the Rubik's cube. IEEE ISMAR 2024.
• Stacchio, L., Garzarella, S., Cascarano, P., De Filippo, A., Cervellati, E., & Marfia, G. (2024). DanXe: An extended artificial intelligence framework to analyze and promote dance heritage. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 33, e00343.
• Stacchio, L., Angeli, A., Lisanti, G., Calanca, D., & Marfia, G. (2022). Toward a Holistic Approach to the Socio-historical Analysis of Vernacular Photos. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 18(3s).

📚 Full list of publications →

Supervisor of 2 B.Sc. theses and co-supervisor of 13 B.Sc./M.Sc. theses across Bologna, Macerata, Politecnica delle Marche and eCampus.