Farooq Ahmad Wani
I'm a third-year PhD student in Data Science at Sapienza University of Rome, in the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering. I'm under the supervision of Professor Fabrizio Silvestri and collaborating with the RSTless group. My research focus revolves around enhancing the resilience of deep learning models to noise. This entails the development of robust loss functions and novel training methodologies. Currently, my work centers on fortifying Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) against noise. Prior to embarking on my doctoral journey, I earned a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from Sapienza University of Rome. I also bring with me over four and a half years of professional experience as a data scientist at General Electric (GE) , and I hold a bachelor's degree in Information and Technology from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in India.
Survey and Benchmark of Graph Learning under Label Noise
Wani, Farooq Ahmad; Purificato, Antonio; Bucarelli, Maria Sofia; Di Francesco, Andrea Giuseppe; Corelli, Michael; Pryymak, Oleksandr; Silvestri, Fabrizio;
2026
Same Answer, Different Representations: Hidden instability in VLMs
Wani, Farooq Ahmad; Suglia, Alessandro; Saxena, Rohit; Gema, Aryo Pradipta; Kwan, Wai-Chung; Barez, Fazl; Bucarelli, Maria Sofia; Silvestri, Fabrizio; Minervini, Pasquale;
2026
Subtract the Corruption: Training-Data-Free Corrective Machine Unlearning Using Task Arithmetic
Mozafari, Mostafa; Wani, Farooq Ahmad; Bucarelli, Maria Sofia; Silvestri, Fabrizio;
2026
Cross-Modal Attention Acts as a Frequency Filter: Why Verbose Prompts Improve Robustness in Vision-Language Models
Wani, Farooq Ahmad; Bucarelli, Maria Sofia; Mirza, Mujtaba Hussain; Pryymak, Oleksandr; Gema, Aryo Pradipta; Masi, Iacopo; Minervini, Pasquale; Silvestri, Fabrizio;
2026
PISA: Prioritized Invariant Subgraph Aggregation
Ghasemi, Ali; Wani, Farooq Ahmad; Bucarelli, Maria Sofia; Silvestri, Fabrizio;
2025
PISA: Prioritized Invariant Subgraph Aggregation
Ghasemi, Ali; Wani, Farooq Ahmad; Bucarelli, Maria Sofia; Silvestri, Fabrizio;
2025
HCN-TA: Hierarchical Capsule Network with Temporal Attention for a Generalizable Approach to Audio Deepfake Detection
Wani, Taiba Majid; Uecker, Madleen; Wani, Farooq Ahmad; Amerini, Irene;
2025
IJCNN 2025 Competition: Learning with Noisy Graph Labels
Wani, Farooq; Bucarelli, Maria Sofia; Di Teodoro, Giulia; Di Francesco, Andrea Giuseppe;
2025
Learning with Noisy Labels through Learnable Weighting and Centroid Similarity
Wani, Farooq Ahmad; Bucarelli, Maria Sofia; Silvestri, Fabrizio;
2024
Navigating the Soundscape of Deception: A Comprehensive Survey on Audio Deepfake Generation, Detection, and Future Horizons
Wani, Taiba Majid; Qadri, Syed Asif Ahmad; Wani, Farooq Ahmad; Amerini, Irene;
2024
Robustness of Graph Classification: failure modes, causes, and noise-resistant loss in Graph Neural Networks
Wani, Farooq Ahmad; Bucarelli, Maria Sofia; Di Francesco, Andrea Giuseppe; Pryymak, Oleksandr; Silvestri, Fabrizio;
2024
