Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Trento, November 2016 - October 2020
M.Sc. in Speech and Language Processing, University of Edinburgh, September 2014 - November 2015
Diploma IUSS, September 2008 - October 2014
M.Sc. in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Pavia, December 2011 - April 2014
B.Sc. in Modern Letters (Major: Linguistics), University of Pavia, September 2008 - December 2011

June 2020: Applied Scientist at Alexa AI
Summer 2018: Applied Scientist Intern for Amazon Alexa Conversational AI group
- Lab126, Sunnyvale (CA, United States)
- Project: Natural Language Generation at Scale
- Supervisors: Chandra Khatri, Rahul Goel
Sept 2015, Aug 2016: UI designer (Dialogue Developer)
- Nuance Communications, Aachen (Germany)
- Project: contribute to design and develop MBUX, the in-car dialogue system released in 2018 for Mercedes A-Class cars
Nov 2013, Feb 2014: Research intern
- School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
- Project: Worked on the PARC project and on a project to automatically extract quotations from speech

Dec 2018, ongoing: CO-ADAPT
- Working on the design and implementation of a conversational agent for adaptive ageing for the European H2020 project CO-ADAPT
Nov 2016, Aug 2017: Alexa Prize
- Team leader of the Roving Mind team, one of the 15 university teams selected to compete in the first edition of the Amazon Alexa Prize, a competition to advance open domain conversational AI