Experience
Teaching Assistant - Theoretical Computer Science, Tor Vergata University of Rome
May 2025 - June 2025
Teaching Assistant for Theoretical Computer Science course led by prof. M. Di Ianni (bachelor degree in Computer Science, second year, second semester, AY 2024-2025)
Teaching Assistant - Computer Systems Architecture, Tor Vergata University of Rome
November 2024 - April 2025
Teaching Assistant for Computer Systems Architecture course led by prof. A. Simonetta (bachelor degree in Computer Science, first year, second semester, AY 2024-2025)
Collaborator (Oct 2024 - Oct 2025), Summer@EPFL Intern (July 2024 - September 2024), Machine Learning for Biomedicine Lab (Prof. M. Brbić Lab)
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
supervised by Maria Brbić
Fine-grained cell type discovery for ImmGenT using CITE-seq data
Collaboration on a multimodal foundation model for immune cells
Collaborator (August 2023 - May 2024), Intern (June 2023 - July 2023), Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab (Prof. D. di Bernardo's Lab)
TIGEM (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine)
supervised by Mario Failli and Diego di Bernardo
Single cell data visualization, pseudotime analysis, gene set enrichment analysis, gene regulatory network inference and analysis, RNA velocity, development of a ShinyApp
We are working on autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in collaboration with Prof. M. Caplan’s Lab, Yale School of Medicine
Teaching Assistant - Theoretical Computer Science, Tor Vergata University of Rome
December 2023 - November 2024
Teaching Assistant for the second module of the Theoretical Computer Science course led by prof. M. Di Ianni (bachelor degree in Computer Science, second year, second semester, AY 2023-2024)
Tutor - "ME.MO." Project, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
February 2022 - November 2023
University mentoring and orientation program for penultimate-year high school students from vulnerable socio-economic backgrounds
Tutor - "Volontari per l'Educazione" Project, Save The Children
November 2022 - May 2023
Educational support to primary and secondary school students facing learning disorders and/or socio-economic vulnerabilities
Intern - Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics (Prof. M. Helmer Citterich’s lab), Tor Vergata University of Rome
March 2023 - April 2023
supervised by Gerardo Pepe
Weighted gene co-expression network analysis, gene set enrichment analysis, gene network inference and master regulator analysis
I worked on heart failure using bulk transcriptomics
Volleyball Referee (January 2018 - March 2020), Beach Volleyball Referee (July 2019 - August 2022) - Italian Volleyball Federation
Several finals of B1 Beach Volleyball tournaments and stages of U18 and U20 Beach Volleyball Italian Championship
More than 60 Volleyball matches, several territorial finals, Prima Divisione matches (one level below the Series D) and scorer during U18 Volleyball National Finals 2018
Educator - Istituto Maria Ausiliatrice Taranto
October 2015 - September 2020
Entertainer, creator and organizer of games, activities, labs (science, gardening, magic...), parties, and educational moments for children aged 5 to 16
Awards and Scholarships
2020-2025 Full scholarship (less than 4% admission rate), Collegio Universitario “Lamaro Pozzani”
2024 Summer@EPFL Fellowship (1.6% admission rate, more than 5000 applications)
2024 ETH Student Summer Research Fellowship (0.8% admission rate, more than 2500 applications, I declined, accepting the offer from EPFL)