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title: "Alessandro Padella"
type: entity
tags: [author, ppm, llm-ppm, padova, italy]
created: 2026-05-11
updated: 2026-05-11
---

# Alessandro Padella

Researcher at the **Università degli Studi di Padova**, Italy. Co-author with [[entities/massimiliano-de-leoni]] on the small-scale-event-log LLM-PPM research line, also collaborating with [[entities/marlon-dumas]].

## Affiliation

Università degli Studi di Padova (with de Leoni's group).

## Work in this wiki

- [[sources/2026-padella-llm-features-ppm]] — *Exploring LLM Features in Predictive Process Monitoring for Small-Scale Event-Logs* (with de Leoni & Dumas, arXiv 2601.11468). Extended journal version of the BPM Forum 2026 conference paper "Enhancing Predictive Process Monitoring on Small-Scale Event Logs Using LLMs" (with Frazzetto, Navarin & de Leoni, BPM Forum 2026, ref [25] of the journal version).

## Research themes

- LLM-based predictive process monitoring in data-scarce settings.
- Prompt-design and trace-to-string encoding for foundation-model PPM.
- Interpretability of LLM reasoning via [[concepts/beta-learner-distillation|β-learner distillation]] and [[concepts/semantic-hashing-probe|semantic-hashing probes]].
- Future-work direction explicitly stated: prescriptive process analytics extension.

## Code

[github.com/Pado123/gui_xrecs_presc_analytics](https://github.com/Pado123/gui_xrecs_presc_analytics) — code for the 2026 paper.

## Related

[[entities/massimiliano-de-leoni]] · [[entities/marlon-dumas]] · [[concepts/llm-based-ppm]] · [[concepts/predictive-process-monitoring]]