Experience & Education

Timeline

A brief overview of my academic and professional journey so far.

Dec 2025 - Ongoing

Machine Learning Engineer@Swiss Data Science Center

Joining the Research team at SDSC as Machine Learning Engineer, contributing to Generative AI design for mechanical engineering applications.

Sep 2023 - Oct 2025

MSc in Artificial Intelligence@University of Bologna

Master degree in AI with focus on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision.

Apr 2025 - Sep 2025

Master Thesis — Foundation Model for EMG signals@ETH Zürich

Pretraining and evaluation of foundation model for surface electromyography (sEMG) biosignals using transformer-based architectures based on Vision Transformers (ViT).

Key contributions: Efficient tokenization mechanism, downstream evaluations across gesture classification, finger joint angles regression, silent speech synthesis and recognition.

Nov 2024 - Apr 2025

Tier 2 Coder for AI Training@Outlier AI

Generated high-quality supervised fine-tuning data by designing challenging prompts to elicit failure cases from state-of-the-art models, then manually refined outputs for functional correctness.

Focus areas: RAG optimization, solution reasoning, test case development, and bug fixing in Python and C/C++.

Aug 2024 - Nov 2024

AI Model Trainer & Multimodal Data Contributor@Outlier AI

Contributed to Genesis Multimodal project focused on safe and effective alignment of MLLMs through RLHF. Designed evaluation protocols and assessed model outputs for ethical compliance, safety, and fairness.

Expertise: LLM alignment, responsible AI principles, multimodal AI system evaluation.

Nov 2023 - Feb 2024

Research Fellowship — Embedded Systems for Assistive Technologies@University of L'Aquila

Conducted research on Versal VCK190 embedded systems (AMD/Xilinx), designing innovative solutions for accessibility and assistive technologies.

Research focus: Advanced hands-on experience in embedded systems architecture and real-world applications for users with special needs.

2020 - 2023

BSc in Computer Science@LUMSA University

Bachelor degree in Computer Science with focus on Data Science and Data Management.

Feb 2023 - May 2023

Back End Developer@Polimatica

Curricular internship gaining hands-on experience with cloud platforms (DigitalOcean, AWS) and modern web technologies.

Skills acquired: PHP, AngularJS, MySQL, RabbitMQ, cloud architecture, and backend web services management.

2015 - 2020

High School Diploma in Science@Liceo Scientifico Gianbattista Morgagni, Rome

Foundation in science and mathematics. Recipient of Campus STEM: Robotics award.