Teaching & Mentoring

  • Teaching Assistant — Database Systems, University of Trieste, Mar–Dec 2024. Designed lab exercises for SQL, relational algebra, ER modeling. Reviewed all student projects.
  • Department Tutor — Data Science & AI, University of Trieste, Jan–Dec 2024. Restructured departmental websites for 200+ students.
  • Department Tutor — Computer Engineering, University of Trieste, Aug 2020 – Feb 2021. Managed internship administration.
  • Thesis Supervision — Mentored 4 master’s students and 1 bachelor’s student on NLP, LLM code generation, Genetic Improvement, and Text-to-SQL evaluation.

Summer & Winter Schools

  • AthNLP — Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School, Athens, Greece, Sep 2024. Selected from 200+ applicants.
  • LxMLS — Lisbon Machine Learning School, Lisbon, Portugal, Jul 2024. One of the premier ML summer schools in Europe.
  • ALPS — Advanced Language Processing Winter School, French Alps, France, Apr 2024. Highly selective (~50 attendees).
  • DeepLearn — International Summer School on Deep Learning, Gran Canaria, Spain, Jul 2023.
  • OxML — Oxford Machine Learning Summer School (NLP track), Oxford, UK, Jul 2023.

Volunteering

  • EACL 2024 — European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, St Julian’s, Malta, Mar 2024. Volunteer at one of the top NLP conferences in Europe.
  • IEEE CCTA 2022 — Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Trieste, Italy, Aug 2022. Volunteer supporting conference operations.

Professional Memberships

  • AILC — Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (Italian Association of Computational Linguistics). Member since 2023.
  • AI2S — Trieste-based association promoting artificial intelligence. Member since 2020.
  • Mentors4U — Europe’s largest non-profit mentoring association. Mentee since Jul 2022.

Certifications

  • McKinsey Forward Program — 10-week digital learning program by McKinsey.org covering adaptability, structured problem-solving, communication, and AI essentials.