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Applied AI researcher focused on efficient LLMs, model compression, and post-training.

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Industry experience

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon Alexa AI · Turin, Italy

September 2026 — March 2027

Working on post-training for large language models.

Visiting Scientist

Bristol Myers Squibb (CITRE) · Seville, Spain

April — June 2026

Developed LLM-based methods to extract gene-regulatory interactions from scientific literature and construct gene-regulatory networks.

Academic experience

PhD Researcher in Efficient Deep Learning

University of Trento · Trento, Italy

November 2022 — Present

Research on model compression, sparsity, quantization, and scalable evaluation pipelines for large AI models.

Visiting PhD Researcher

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

August — October 2025

Investigated sparsity patterns for knowledge disentanglement in controller-based continual and meta reinforcement learning.

Research Intern · Exchange Student

University of Twente · Enschede, The Netherlands

March — July 2022

Applied AI to complex networks, linking network science and deep learning.

Education

PhD in Computer Science

University of Trento · Trento, Italy

November 2022 — Present

Master's Degree in Computer Science

University of Trento · Trento, Italy · Final grade: 110 cum laude/110

September 2020 — October 2022

Master's Degree in Computer Science · Erasmus Exchange

University of Twente · Enschede, The Netherlands · GPA: 3.9

August 2021 — February 2022

Bachelor's Degree in Information Engineering and Business Organization

University of Trento · Trento, Italy · Final grade: 107/110

September 2017 — September 2020

Conferences

GECCO 2024

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference · Melbourne, Australia

July 14–18, 2024

CVPR 2024

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Seattle, WA, USA

June 17–21, 2024

ICLR 2023 Workshop on Sparsity in Neural Networks

Virtual attendance

May 5, 2023

PPSN XVII

Parallel Problem Solving from Nature · Dortmund, Germany

September 10–14, 2022

Honors and awards

Scholarship for attending ICLR 2023May 2023

Cisco Scholarship · awarded with Matteo FarinaMay 2023

PhD Scholarship · University of TrentoNovember 2022 — November 2025

Scholarship Research AbroadMarch 2022

Erasmus+ ScholarshipMarch 2021

University of Trento Merit Scholarship2019 — 2022