Experience

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Bologna

I develop transparent AI systems that process legal documents, integrate traceable domain knowledge such as EU legal principles, and produce human-readable explanations grounded in that knowledge.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Bologna

Developed privacy-preserving, LLM-based solutions that improved user-assistance systems for industrial use cases.

Visiting Researcher

Alan Turing Institute

Conducted research on rumour verification and reasoning in LLMs, contributing to two papers.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Bologna

Developed methods for ranking and matching textual sources in AI-on-demand services, with emphasis on maintaining changing source collections.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Bologna

Developed NLP methods for large-scale heterogeneous document matching by combining textual knowledge, researcher profiles, user requests, and ontology-based knowledge graphs.

External Research Collaborator

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Developed a ranking system for scientific literature based on Argument Mining features.

Research Intern

Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab

Developed argumentative dialogue agents for discussing scientific literature and studied how arguments in research papers can improve agent responses.

Research Scholarship

Magneti Marelli

Developed anomaly detection solutions based on forecasting neural networks and encoder-decoder architectures.

Education

PhD Computer Science

University of Bologna

Thesis on integrating knowledge into deep learning models in the field of NLP.

MS Computer Science

University of Bologna

BS Computer Science

University of Bologna

Skills
Technical Skills
Python
Web development
Database
Git
Research & Communication
Academic Writing
Conference Presentations
Mentoring
Communication
Organization
Research Topics
LLM Prompting
Interpretability
Reinforcement Learning
Argument Mining
Speech Processing
Awards
Outstanding Reviewer
EMNLP ∙ 2024
Selected as a top reviewer based on review quality, availability, and active interaction with peers.
Visiting Researcher Recipient
Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) Foundation ∙ 2024
Awarded €2,500 for a two-week research visit supporting collaboration between Italian and UK researchers.
Languages
80%
English Fluent (C1, IELTS)
100%
Italian Native