Short CV

NLP Data Scientist

Okra.ai, Leiden, The Netherlands 🇳🇱

Conduct applied research on the latest technologies and methodologies in NLP, LLMs, to drive innovation within the team. Design, develop new, and refine existing NLP applications and large language models, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and effective.

• Applied Research
• Algorithm Design
• Software Development
• XAI
• NLG
• NLP
• LLM

Research Intern

Orange Innovation Labs, Lannion, France 🇫🇷

Internship at the Orange Innovation Lab under the supervision of Lina M. Rojas Barahona. Developed an Explainability framework based on KernelSHAP to explain efficiently Large Vision and Language Generative models using semantically informed visual priors.

• Explainable Vision and Language
• Industrial Research
• Algorithm Design
• Software Development
• XAI
• Presentation Skills

Visiting Researcher

University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

I worked at the Natural Language Processing Group of the Intelligent Software Systems division of the Computer Science Department supervised by Albert Gatt and Kees van Deemter. Worked on the analysis of the impact of high-level linguistic expression on large generative VL models to improve the quality of multimodal representations.

• Explainable Vision and Language
• Research Supervision
• Technical Research
• Presentation Skills
• Pytorch
• XAI
• Multimodality

PhD fellow and Researcher

Institute Linguistics & Language Technology, University of Malta 🇲🇹

Conducted Research on Multimodal Grounding of Linguistic expressions into Vision and Explainablity applied to Vision and Language Modeling. Full details in the long CV

• Computer Vision
• Natural Language Processing/Generation
• XAI
• Multimodal Grounding

Machine Learning Researcher/Engineer

Aptus.AI 🇮🇹

As a Machine Learning Research Scientist, I was responsible for the implementation, training, evaluation, testing, and deployment of ML models; primarily in the NLP and Multimodal domain. specifically: (1) Research and implementation of research papers; (2) Implementation and deployment of ML APIs; (3) Design and prototyping of MVPs; (4) Master Students Supervision

• Machine learning
• Deep Learning
• Pytorch
• Software Development
• Python
• Keras
• Test Driven Development
• Agile methodologies
• Teamwork
• Student Supervision
• MLOps
• Microserives
• Docker
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Visiting Researcher

Research Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groeningen, Groeningen, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Worked on Generative Language Models and Analysis of Writing Styles in Journalism under the supervision of Prof. Malvina Nissim. The output of this work led to three publications

• Natural Language Generation
• Data collection
• Web scraping
• Research

Phd

University of Malta, Malta 🇲🇹

Natural Language Processing & Computer Vision (Multimodal AI) and Explainability (XAI)

Master Degree

University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹

Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor Degree

University of Bari, Bari, Italy 🇮🇹

Computer Science and Technologies for Software Production

Outstanding Reviewer

The 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL2023)

Best Paper Award Finalist with Special Mention

Clic-it 2019 Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

Finalist

e-Health Award. Research Competition or project on Digital Health, AiSDet Associazione Italiana di Sanità Digitale e Telemedicina