National PhD in Artificial Intelligence for Society

Master's Degree in Digital Humanities

Thesis: Pivotal Instances Identification for Learning Interpretable Decision-Making Models

Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy

Scientific High School Diploma

Teaching Collaborator — EDVANCE Digital Education Hub

Project: EDVANCE — Digital Education Hub, Next Generation EU
Video: Italian video introduction
Supported the development of a MOOC on the design and production of Massive Open Online Courses, with particular attention to the organization of educational content and methodologies for effective online delivery.

Academic Tutor — Data Mining: Advanced Topics and Applications

Designed an applied course project, evaluated student projects, and provided support on advanced Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques, including outlier detection, classification, and time-series analysis.

Academic Tutor — Data Mining: Foundations

Delivered laboratory sessions on Python for data analysis and Machine Learning, covering Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, and pyFIM. Topics included data understanding and preparation, clustering, classification, regression, frequent itemset mining, and association rules.

Teaching Collaborator — Interpretable Machine Learning

Project: EDVANCE — Digital Education Hub, Next Generation EU
Video: Italian video introduction
Developed eight educational modules on Interpretable Machine Learning, including intrinsically interpretable models, global and local post-hoc explanations, Shapley values, saliency maps, case-based explanations, and future perspectives in interpretable AI.

Academic Tutor — Programming and Data Analysis

Provided teaching support for Master's students in Digital Humanities on data analysis and Machine Learning, covering descriptive statistics, statistical testing, interactive visualization, outlier detection, correlation analysis, and supervised and unsupervised learning.

Research Fellow — PIANO Project

Project: PIANO — Personalized Interventions Against Online Toxicity, PRIN 2022
Applied Natural Language Processing techniques and developed interpretable Machine Learning models for the identification and prediction of toxic behaviour on Reddit, supporting the development of personalized moderation interventions against online toxicity.

Research Intern

Benchmarked and evaluated methods for the identification of prototypical instances from reference datasets, with a focus on supervised classification tasks and the development of interpretable decision-making models.

Academic Tutor — Theoretical Foundations and Programming

Supported undergraduate Digital Humanities students in solving JavaScript programming exercises and understanding the theoretical foundations of programming.

Online Philosophy Tutor

Provided individual tutoring for an Introduction to Philosophy course, supporting the preparation of short essays on philosophy of mind, ontology, truth-conditional semantics, and ethics.

3rd International SoBigData Summer School

Summer school for PhD students and researchers focused on the analysis of informational, political, and social dynamics and their relationship with Artificial Intelligence, with particular attention to the responsible use of data for addressing complex societal challenges. Developed a group project on the evaluation of public-policy impacts through recommender systems in a simulated social-network environment.

AI & Society 2025 Summer School

Summer school for students of the National PhD Programme in Artificial Intelligence, focused on AI, society, and democracy. Developed a group project on AI and tourism in Tuscany. The school was co-located with HHAI 2025 — International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence.

Research Visit — Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

Six-week research visit dedicated to the design of a user study on fairness-aware clustering, investigating users' perception of the trade-off between balance and cohesion introduced by fairness-aware clustering algorithms.

Cultural Exchange — Bournville College

Cultural and educational exchange focused on strengthening English language skills, culminating in the achievement of an IELTS C1 certification.

AFS Exchange Student — Chengdu Yulin High School

Awarded an AFS (Intercultura) summer scholarship to attend Chinese language courses and participate in a cultural exchange while living with a local host family.

Cultural Exchange — Freihof-Gymnasium

Exchange student from Liceo Scientifico G. Marconi, hosted by a German family in Göppingen as part of a school and cultural exchange programme between the twinned cities of Foggia and Göppingen.