Roberto Gheda

PhD Student at TU Delft, Machine Learning and Network Science

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.