PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering focusing on multimodal AI for speech, language, and music processing with emphasis on interpretability and trustworthy human expression understanding.
Keywords:
Multimodal Learning, Speech Processing, NLP, Explainable AI, Audio ML, Music Information Retrieval, Argument Mining, Clinical Speech Analysis.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in "Computer Engineering" at University of Bologna (2019)
- Master's degree with honors in "Artificial Intelligence" at University of Bologna (2021)
- PhD Candidate in "Computer Science and Engineering" at University of Bologna (expected March 2026)
Experience:
- Visiting Researcher at Sony AI, Barcelona – ASR+LLMs for lyrics representations and multimodal version identification (2025)
- Visiting Researcher and Alumni at Mila – Quebec AI Institute, SpeechBrain group – Interpretability in speech analysis (2023-present)
- Principal Investigator of HumanE-AI-Net micro-project for fairness and diversity in speech datasets for mental health and neurological disorders research (2024)
- Research Fellow at Language Technologies Lab, DISI – University of Bologna – GDPR privacy policy analysis (2022)
- Research Intern at i2CAT Foundation, Barcelona – Speech emotion recognition for public transport safety (2021)
- Teaching Assistant in NLP, Real Time Systems, Python Programming, and Computer Science at University of Bologna (2021–present)
