About
Ciao! I am an Italian physicist and engineer with a strong interest in applied sciences and optimization problems. My research focus has changed a lot over the last few years: from Space Mission Analysis to Complex Networks, Data Science, LLMs, and now Maritime Meteorological Routing. I have yet to find the common denominator, but I know for sure that implementing physics-based and data-driven models fascinates me!
I am an incoming PhD student in Applied Data Science and AI at Marine Weather Intelligence (MWI) and the LMBA laboratory in Vannes, France, as part of the CIFRE program. At LMBA I will be supervised by François Septier. In addition, I will also be supervised by Antonio Celani, from ICTP in Trieste, Italy. Broadly, I will work on the weather routing problem, which involves determining the optimal path for a vessel to follow by taking into account dynamic weather conditions, with the goal of minimizing travel time, fuel consumption, or safety risk while avoiding hazardous weather patterns such as storms or high waves.
Before landing in Vannes, I obtained my Master degree in Physics of Data at the University of Padua. During my Master’s thesis, I studied “intelligent” (in the sense of artificial intelligence) multi-agent systems, carrying out research at the interface between LLMs, swarm intelligence, and network science. The work was carried out within the Complex Multilayer Networks Lab, under the supervision of Manlio de Domenico. During the final year of my Master I also had the opportunity to carry out a 3-months research internship in the group of Tiago P. Peixoto at the the Central European University in Vienna. There, I applied generative network models and Bayesian inference to understand and model the behavior of platforms in the Fediverse, an ensemble of federated servers used for web publishing and file hosting.
Beyond my academic and professional pursuits, I am also a passionate handbalancer! This unique discipline, consisting of balancing the body on the hands by forming different shapes, allows me to deeply experience the mechanisms of human learning, which I find extremely fascinating. Here you can find part of a short performance I did some years ago: Handbalance act. In my spare time, I also enjoy hiking, walking, and in general exploring, especially if it involves sailing, flying, or cold bathing in high-altitude lakes.
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