Experience

  1. Startup Founder & Strategy Manager

    Own Pre-Seed Startup

    Responsibilities include:

    • Led market research and competitor analysis, producing regulatory and user-focused reports to guide MVP validation and data-driven product development.
    • Defined business model and GTM strategy, developed brand assets, coordinated IP/legal efforts, and managed cross-functional team communication.

  2. Research Fellow

    University of Bologna

    Responsibilities included:

    • Developing a pipeline to enrich the EPTIC corpus by automating transcription, sentence alignment, video alignment, and metadata extraction.
    • Evaluating and fine-tuning ASR models for verbatim transcription, focusing on linguistic features like disfluencies and pauses.

  3. Research Intern

    University of Bologna

    Responsibilities included:

    • Extracting textual data from subtitles and combining it with the Medical Dramas Dataset developed by the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna.
    • Fine-tuning MMBT (Multimodal Bitransformer), which resulted in a 7.6% higher F1 score commpared to the text-only models.

Education

  1. MA in Translation and Technology

    University of Bologna

    Final Grade: 110/110 with Honors

    Curriculum of the Specialized Translation MA. Thesis on Multimodal Classification of Audiovisual Content. Supervised by Prof. Alberto Barrón-Cedeño. Presented a paper at the 14th Media Mutations International Conference and collaborated with the Language Technologies Lab of the University of Bologna.

    Courses included:

    • Natural Language Processing
    • Quantitative Data Analysis
    • Python and R Programming
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  2. BA in Languages and Technologies for Intercultural Communication

    University of Bologna

    Final Grade: 109/110

    Previously referred to as “Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation”. Spent one semester abroad as part of the Overseas exchange program, taking courses at the Higher School of Economics (Высшая Школа Экономики).

    Courses included:

    • Computational Linguistics
    • Computer-Assisted Translation
    • Translation and Liaison Interpreting

  3. Certified Entrepreneurship Program and Incubator

    Startup Geeks Incubator

    Earned an entrepreneurship certificate upon completing a comprehensive startup fundamentals curriculum.

    Validated an AI-driven business model through:

    • Systematic customer discovery
    • MVP development and iteration

    Will further develop the UVP with co-founders and Startup Geeks mentors in the second phase starting September 2025.

Skills & Hobbies
Awards
Business Fundamentals Certificate
Startup Geeks ∙ July 2025
Covered methods to generate and evaluate business ideas aligned with personal aspirations, techniques to deeply understand customer needs and design compelling products/services, lean approaches to testing and developing a MVP, strategies to define monetization models and ensure business sustainability.
IBM Data Engineering
Coursera ∙ September 2023
Developed skills in relational databases, database design and administration, data warehousing, SQL, BI tools, ETL, NoSQL, and big data processing with Apache Spark. Completed a capstone project designing and managing a data engineering platform inspired by real-world scenarios.
Data Science and Big Data Analytics
IFOA ∙ April 2020
Covered methodologies in data science, advanced software solutions for analytics, management of distributed data systems, computational methods for big data, and scalable algorithms for dimensionality reduction, clustering, and ranking.
Languages
100%
English
100%
Italian
85%
Russian
65%
Spanish
65%
French
15%
Japanese