CV

Work experience

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

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

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

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’

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

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