CV
Work experience
Applied Scientist Intern @ Amazon Europe, Berlin (Jun 2025 – Oct 2025)
- Organization: EU INTech
- Team: Localization (Saar)
- Project: Design and development of automatic evaluation systems for Amazon’s in-image translation system
- Research tasks: collecting relevant literature, designing reference-based and reference-free automatic, evaluation methods, exploring vision language model based solutions, synthetic data design and generation, experimental design and execution
- Development tasks: developing and validating automatic reference-based and reference-free solutions
Internship @ Machine Translation unit, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Jan 2022 – Jun 2022)
- Project: Creation of a multilingual benchmark for the evaluation of gender-neutral MT (see GeNTE)
- Tasks: Language, gender, and ethics literature review; Surveying relevant guidelines for gender-inclusive language in English, Italian, and Spanish to inform corpus aims and rationale; Reviewing candidate corpora to identify an ideal base corpus; Identifying and categorizing gender-neutralization strategies; Designing the benchmark.
- Supervisor: Luisa Bentivogli
Education
PhD, University of Trento & Fondazione Bruno Kessler, 2026
- Program: Computer Science and Information Engineering
- Topic: Gender-Inclusive Machine Translation
- Advisors: Matteo Negri, (FBK) Luisa Bentivogli (FBK)
- Defense Committee: Eva Vanmassenhove, Jasmijn Bastings, Luis Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
M.D., University of L’Aquila, 2022
- Program: Languages and cultures for international communication and cooperation
- M.D. thesis: Gender-Inclusive Language: From Theoretical Approaches to Building a Test Set for Machine Translation
- Supervisors: Maria Giovanna Fusco (UnivAQ), Luisa Bentivogli (FBK)
- Final grade: 110/110 with honors
- Best 2022 UnivAQ thesis on ‘Equal opportunities and combating discrimination’
B.D., University of L’Aquila, 2018
- Program: Cultural and linguistic mediation
- B.D. thesis: Patterns in Phonetic Adaptation of English words to Italian in a Movie Trailer Corpus
- Supervisors: Maria Giovanna Fusco (UnivAQ)
- Final grade: 110/110 with honors
Random CV stuff
- ML & NLP skills: model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation, multimodality, inference optimization, retrieval augmented generation, prompt engineering, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA)
- Research skills:Literature review and monitoring, experimental design, dataset creation and curation, quantitative and qualitative analysis, scientific writing, research communication
- IT skills: Python programming, LATEX writing, HPC environments (SLURM-based, AWS), git versioning (GitHub, Hugging Face, etc), Flask and Streamlit apps, macOS, and Linux
- Languages: Italian (native), English (C1), Spanish (B1)
- I’m a reviewer for: ACL Rolling Review, GITT workshop, CLiC-it