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Applied AI researcher focused on efficient LLMs, model compression, and post-training.
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Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Alexa AI · Turin, Italy
September 2026 — March 2027Working on post-training for large language models.
Visiting Scientist
Bristol Myers Squibb (CITRE) · Seville, Spain
April — June 2026Developed 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 — PresentResearch on model compression, sparsity, quantization, and scalable evaluation pipelines for large AI models.
Visiting PhD Researcher
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · Amsterdam, The Netherlands
August — October 2025Investigated 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 2022Applied AI to complex networks, linking network science and deep learning.
Education
PhD in Computer Science
University of Trento · Trento, Italy
November 2022 — PresentMaster's Degree in Computer Science
University of Trento · Trento, Italy · Final grade: 110 cum laude/110
September 2020 — October 2022Master's Degree in Computer Science · Erasmus Exchange
University of Twente · Enschede, The Netherlands · GPA: 3.9
August 2021 — February 2022Bachelor's Degree in Information Engineering and Business Organization
University of Trento · Trento, Italy · Final grade: 107/110
September 2017 — September 2020Conferences
GECCO 2024
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference · Melbourne, Australia
July 14–18, 2024CVPR 2024
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Seattle, WA, USA
June 17–21, 2024ICLR 2023 Workshop on Sparsity in Neural Networks
Virtual attendance
May 5, 2023PPSN XVII
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature · Dortmund, Germany
September 10–14, 2022Honors 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
