Academic Career
[2024 — Present] PhD Candidate | Laboratory of Neurophysiology of the Visuo-Motor System
Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences — University of Bologna, Italy.
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Prof. Patrizia Fattori / Matteo Filippini
Research Visits Abroad
[Jan. 2026 — May 2026] Visiting PhD Researcher | Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, United Kingdom.
Research visit carried out within the Horizon Europe project PLACES (PLAsticity of perception in real and virtual spaCES), involving collaboration across the Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, and Electronic Engineering.
Research activities conducted in collaboration with the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning.
Supervisors: Prof. Szonya Durant, Prof. Zhiyuan Luo
Teaching and Tutoring Activities
[A.Y. 2024/2025 — 2025/2026] Teaching Tutor | Algorithms and Data Structures
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna.
[A.Y. 2023/2024] Tutor | CESIA
Information Systems and Services Area, University of Bologna: support activities for student admission procedures.
[A.Y. 2022/2023] Teaching Tutor | Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence
University of Bologna: support for students experiencing difficulties in their studies through personalised learning pathways.
Education and Training
[2021 — 2024] Master's Degree | Artificial Intelligence
University of Bologna, Italy.
Final grade: 110/110 with honours.
[Sep. 2019 — Feb. 2020] Erasmus+ Study | Computer Science
University of Piraeus, Greece.
[2017 — 2021] Bachelor's Degree | Computer Engineering
University of Palermo, Italy.
Research Experience and Internships
[Sep. 2023 — Dec. 2023] Erasmus+ for Traineeship | TECNALIA Research & Innovation
San Sebastián, Spain.
Within the MAIA project (Multifunctional, Adaptive and Interactive AI system for Acting in multiple contexts), I contributed to the development of an integrated robotic prototype consisting of an electric wheelchair and a robotic arm, with a particular focus on the development of a human-machine interface for validating bidirectional control principles.
Research Projects
- PLACES: PLAsticity of perception in real and virtual spaCES (DOI: 10.3030/101086206).
- MAIA: Multifunctional, Adaptive and Interactive AI system for Acting in multiple contexts (DOI: 10.3030/951910).
- AICAMP — MAI4CAREU: participation in the AICAMP organised by the University of Cyprus in collaboration with the University of Bologna, including the presentation and discussion of research topics in Artificial Intelligence and our group's work on Large Language Models (LLMs).
Conferences and Scientific Contributions
- Society for Neuroscience 2025: poster presentation of the late-breaking abstract entitled "Multi-horizon neural decoding enables delay-free, biologically plausible kinematic forecasts for brain-computer interfaces."
- 15th Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction With Applications (PMLR 329:1066–1069, 2026): poster presentation of the contribution published in the proceedings entitled "Geometry-Aware Conformal Decoding for Motor BCI Systems."
