Experience

  1. Visiting Researcher

    Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), University of Groningen
    Visiting researcher at CLCG, collaborating with Gabriele Sarti.

  2. Teaching Assistant — Probabilistic Machine Learning (MSc)

    University of Trieste
    Review lectures and practical lab sessions in Python. Topics: ERM, PAC learnability, Probabilistic Graphical Models, HMMs, Bayesian Classification and Regression, Sampling-based Inference, EM algorithm, Variational Inference, Generative Modeling (VAEs, Diffusion Models), Gaussian Processes.

  3. Communication and Media Manager Tutor

    University of Trieste
    Spreading information about seminars, internships, workshops, and social events across the informatics section of the University of Trieste.

  4. Orientation Tutor for Incoming MSc Students

    University of Trieste
    Helpdesk for EU and non-EU students regarding admission and enrollment procedures.

  5. Research Scientist Intern

    Rachael S.r.l.
    • Sentiment analysis and topic modeling on web-scraped opinions.
    • Question Answering on PDF documents using RAG and OCR techniques.
    • Synthetic tabular data generation using past polls data.

Education

  1. PhD in Natural Language Processing

    University of Trieste, AI Lab
    Reasoning using generative language models. Supervised by Luca Bortolussi and Gabriele Sarti.

  2. MSc in Data Science and Scientific Computing (LM-44)

    University of Trieste & SISSA
    Data Science and Artificial Intelligence track. Graduation score: 110/110 cum laude. Thesis: A Dialectic Pipeline for Improving LLMs Robustness, supervised by Luca Bortolussi and Gabriele Sarti.
    Read Thesis

  3. BSc in Statistics and Computer Science (L-41)

    University of Trieste
    Graduation score: 110/110 cum laude. Thesis: Beta-binomial regression model for inferring the number of BSc graduate students in Italian universities, supervised by Francesco Pauli.
Skills & Hobbies
Programming
Python
R
Bash / Linux
Machine Learning & NLP
Deep Learning (PyTorch)
Transformers / HuggingFace
NLP Tasks (QA, NLI, Sentiment, …)
Evaluation & Benchmarking
Data & Statistical Tools
Data Analysis (Pandas / NumPy)
Scikit-Learn
Statistical Modeling
SQL (basic)
Dev & Research Tools
Git / GitHub
LaTeX
Experiment Tracking (Weights & Biases)
Awards
Mention of Honor, “Best Master Thesis” — Emanuele Pianta Award
CLiC-it 2025, AILC — Cagliari (IT) ∙ January 2025
Awarded for the Master’s thesis A Dialectic Pipeline for Improving LLM Robustness.
3rd Place — “ACCELERATE AI” Hackathon
AINDO — Trieste (IT) ∙ January 2024
Third place at the ACCELERATE AI hackathon organized by AINDO.
Merit Scholarship — Generali4Girls in STEM
Generali — Trieste (IT) ∙ January 2019
Merit-based scholarship awarded to outstanding female students pursuing STEM degrees (2019–2022).
Languages
100%
Italian
90%
English
10%
French
10%
Spanish