Curriculum Vitae
Education & Work
- December 2024 - now: Postdoctoral Researcher at Amsterdam UMC, Department of Medical Informatics, the Netherlands.
- February 2023 - November 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- September 2019 - February 2023: Ph.D. candidate in Information and Communication Technologies, ICT International Doctoral School, University of Trento, Italy.
- April 2022 - September 2022: Research Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa AI - Natural Language Understanding - Berlin, Germany.
- September 2017 - July 2019: Master's Degree in Cognitive Science, 110/110 cum Laude, Track: Language and Multimodal Interaction, CIMeC (Center for Mind/Brain Sciences), University of Trento, Thesis Title: Hallucinating Vision in Neural Networks: The Case of Quantifiers.
- March 2017 - September 2017: Enrollment in Single Courses, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna.
- September 2013 - March 2017: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, 110/110 cum Laude, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Thesis Title: Design and implementation of a general Human Activity Recognition system using embedded sensors and features selection algorithms..
Additional Activities
- Co-coordinator of the Medical AI course (Medical Informatics Master's degree) - Amstedam UMC (joint University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Program Committee member of ACL 2025 - The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
- October 2023 - November 2023: Guest Lecturer @ University of Amsterdam (Higher Cognitive Functions and NLP1) + Teaching Assistant of Advanced Topics in Computational Semantics.
- September 2022 - January 2023: Teaching Assistant of Grounded Language Processing (Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence Systems) @ University of Trento
- September 2021 - January 2022: Teaching Assistant of Grounded Language Processing (Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence Systems) @ University of Trento
- August 2021: 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) - Volunteering
- Special Mention @ CLIC-it 2020 for our paper "Overprotective Training Environments Fall Short at Testing Time: Let Models Contribute to Their Own Training "
- October 2020 - February 2021: Teaching Assistant of Computational Linguistics (Master's Degree in Cognitive Science - Language and Multimodal Interaction track) @ University of Trento
- 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2019) - June 2-7 2019, Minneapolis, USA.
- Master Thesis Special Mention @ CLIC-it 2019
- September 2018 - December 2018: Internship of 375 hours (15 ECTS) at CLIC Lab-CIMeC-University of Trento about “a computational model for multisensory/multimodal quantification”
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning by deeplearning.ai on Coursera. Certificate earned at Monday, September 24, 2018 - Verify at coursera.org/verify/73RTFAH42WZF.
- The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2018 (CMMRS2018) August 7-12, 2018, Saarbrücken, Germany) organised by Cornell University, University of Maryland, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems - topic: Emerging Trends in Computer Science.
- 2nd International Summer School on Deep Learning 2018 (23rd - 27th July 2018, Genova, Italy) organized by University of Genova & IRDTA-Brussels/London.
- January 2018 - June 2018: Reading group on Language and Vision at CIMeC-University of Trento, LaVi (Language and Vision) research group, CLIC Lab.
- March 2016 - September 2016: Internship of 275 hours (11 ECTS) at DISI Bologna (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) about “study and experimental evaluation of meta-classification algorithms for data analysis”.
- Excellence courses organized by the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (Italy) for orientation university choice (2011).
Publications