CV

Visiting Scientist — Vernieri Group

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (Stanford University)

Developing an agentic AI system to automate the optimization and design of Future Circular Collider (FCC) particle detectors. Supervisor C. Vernieri.

Visiting Researcher — sciNeurotech Lab (Polytechnique Montréal)

Mila — Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

Developed CNN surrogates to replace computationally expensive online Gaussian Process updates. Funded by a Mitacs Globalink Research Scholarship. Supervisor M. Bonizzato.

Student Researcher — MLPI Lab

Research Center "E. Piaggio"

Framing R-peak prediction from EEG as a segmentation problem via distance-to-peak estimation, evaluating multi-scale CNNs and autoregressive models with a focus on domain generalization. Supervisor M. Cimino.

Student Researcher — PERCRO Lab

Monasterio Foundation

Cardiac amyloidosis classification from ECGs using Transformers, with interpretability via Grad-CAM and Attention Rollout. Supervisor C.A. Avizzano.

Student Researcher — NeuroRobotic Touch Lab and TeCIP Institute

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

• Explainable classification of tumor-mimicking materials from force/position data. Supervisor C.M. Oddo.
• Efficient federated learning via dynamic training-precision adjustment. Supervisor E. Paolini.

Computer Engineer — Part Time (24h/week)

UP caeli via

Software integration for drones (QGC and ArduPilot) using C++ and Qt/QML (GeoFencing, RTK and RTSP).

Internship — Nuclear Fusion and Plasma Research

RFX Consortium and CNR

Investigated autoencoders and VAEs for temporal analysis of plant stress responses after irrigation with plasma-activated water (PAW). Supervisor V. Antoni.

Embedded Software Developer (+10h/week)

Formula Student Team Project

Member of a 50-person university racing team, developing embedded systems (ATmega32/64, TI F2837, Arduino) and C control algorithms for power management, torque vectoring, and regenerative braking.

Advanced MSc (EQF 8)

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

Robotics

• Awarded 2-Year Merit Full Scholarship (top 2% of applicants).

MSc

University of Pisa

Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering

• Thesis: “Development and Evaluation of a Domain-Adversarial Transformer for Subject-Invariant Physiological Signals Analysis”. Supervisor M. Cimino.

Seasonal School

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Challenge-based human-inspired computer vision

BSc

University of Padua

Computer Engineering

• DECAMP Course in Applied Web Application Security (Metropolia UAS, Finland).
• Thesis: “A deep learning approach for the analysis of calcium signal in characterizing the biological response of plants to external stimuli”. Supervisor E. Menegatti.

High School Diploma

Scientific High School G.B. Ferrari

Applied Sciences

AI-Driven Optimization of Detector Design for the FCC-ee

4th US FCC Meeting, SLAC, Sep. 8–11, 2026

Presented research on multifidelity Bayesian optimization and differentiable simulation surrogates for efficient design optimization for the proposed FCC-ee at CERN.

ResCTrans: an Explainable Amyloidosis Classifier using Temporal Transformers from ECG Signals

Submitted to IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Jul. 9, 2026

Zegna Scholarship

Zegna

Scholarship awarded for academic excellence and merit.

Mitacs Globalink Research Scholarship

Mitacs

Scholarship supporting a visiting research stay at Mila.

"Mille e una Lode" Merit Awards

University of Padua

Scholarships awarded to the top 3% of students, received in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

INPS Scholarships

Italian National Institute of Social Security

National scholarships in recognition of academic excellence, received annually 2018–2024.

National Bronze Medal, Physics Olympiad

Association for Teaching Physics

National First Place, Chemistry Olympiad

Italian Chemistry Society

National Bronze Medal, EUSO

European Olympiad of Experimental Science