About Me
I am Roberto Gheda, PhD student at TU Delft. My research interest spans across graph theory, security and fairness in machine learning, and bayesian networks. I have been working along companies such as ASML and KPN. Feel free to reach out to me for any collaboration opportunity!
Publications
First author publications:
- R. Gheda, et al. “Checkmate! Watermarking Graph Diffusion Models in Polynomial Time”.
ICLR 2026. Paper - R. Gheda, et al. “Collaborative and Confidential Junction Trees for Hybrid Bayesian Networks”.
NeurIPS 2025. Paper
Other publications:
- A. Malan et al. “Test-time Graph Extrapolation via Progressive Anchor-Guided Expansion”
ICLR (TTU Workshop), 2026. Paper - L. Gantes et al. “SuperHype: Hypergraph Generation via Graph-Superposition Decomposition”.
Under review, 2026. - A. Malan et al. “MAGiC: Attributed Graph Generation via Mixed-type Diffusion and Coarsening”.
Under review, 2026.
Education
PhD, TU Delft
03/2025 - now
PhD Student in Machine Learning and Network Science.
Advisors: Prof. Lydia Chen, Prof. Maksim Kitsak
MSc, TU Delft
09/2022 - 01/2025
MSc Machine Learning.
Thesis: Collaborative and Confidential Bayesian Networks.
Advisors: Prof. Lydia Chen, Dr. Thiago Guzella
BSc, University of Trento
09/2019 - 07/2022
BSc Computer Science.
Thesis: Integration of PlanSys2 for a fleet of AGVs.
Advisor: Prof. Marco Roveri
Industry Collaboration
KPN
03/2025 – present
Secure Data Sharing for Networks.
ASML
03/2024 – 01/2025
Collaborative and confidential root-cause analysis for semiconductor manufacturing via Bayesian Networks.
References
- Prof. Lydia Chen - TU Delft, y.chen-10@tudelft.nl
- PhD advisor and MSc thesis supervisor.
- Prof. Maksim Kitsak - TU Delft, m.a.kitsak@tudelft.nl
- PhD advisor.
- Prof. Piet van Mieghem - TU Delft, p.f.a.vanmieghem@tudelft.nl
- Head of department.
- Prof. Robert Birke - University of Turin, robert.birke@unito.it
- Research collaborator.
- Dr. Eric Smeitink - KPN, eric.smeitink@kpn.com
- Industry advisor. Manager of technology at KPN.
- Dr. Thiago Guzella - ASML, thiago.guzella@asml.com
- Industry advisor. Senior Data Scientist at ASML.