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Postdoctoral Researcher

Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy

I am working with the Pavis Team on the European project XTREME, which focuses on mixed reality solutions for art and culture, integrating multimodal audio and vision processing . During this period, I will collaborate with a team to develop a novel audio-visual-visual model capable of rendering realistic binaural audio at any position within a room. This model will then be integrated into a mixed reality system to deliver immersive audio and video experiences.

• Writing a survey paper on learning-based methods for novel-view audio rendering
• Developing a new method for high-quality binaural audio rendering using visual features.
• Collaborating with researchers across Europe.
• Collecting real-world multimodal data (e.g., museums, orchestras) for training audio rendering models.
• Contributing to the release of a production-level system.

Software Engineer Intern

Akka Technologies, Milano, Italy

Worked in a team project for developing the back-end software for managing aircraft panels.

• Developed a software system for managing military aircraft panels.
• Delivered and presented a working demo to stakeholders.

PhD Candidate

University of Genoa, Genova, Italy

The goal of my PhD was to create a hybrid rule-based and data-driven approach to generate culture-aware co-speech gestures on social robots. The rule-based part defines heuristic rules based on semantic scores from Cross-Encoder language models. The data-driven part generates co-speech gestures by implementing a multimodal, culture-aware generative model based on Diffusion-Transformers. The cultural component is analyzed from multimodal data and incorporated into the generated gestures, ensuring that the non-verbal communication of social robots is contextually and culturally appropriate.

• Developed a large-scale multimodal dataset.
• Applied ML models (SVMs, Transformers, MLPs, VQ-VAEs, LLMs) to analyze cultural factors.
• Developed subject-independent cultural embeddings using Fishr and Adversarial Learning.
• Built rule-based algorithms for identifying gestures from text using Semantic Similarity.
• Built a Diffusion-Transformer model for multimodal gesture generation.
• Reviewed papers for AI and Robotics journals and conferences.
• Co-organized a workshop at ECCV.
• Collaborated with researchers of King's College London.
• Obtained certifications from Coursera and international summer schools.
• Chaired a session of IEEE RO-MAN conference.

Visiting Ph.D.

King's College London

AI-Robotics

Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

University of Genoa

AI-Robotics

Master's Degree in Robotics Engineering

University of Genoa

Robotics

• Computer vision
• Machine learning
• Multivariable and Non-Linear Control Theory
• Embedded Systems
• ROS
• Real-Time Operating Systems
• Mobile Robotics
• Manipulators
• Mechanical Design
• Social Robotics
• Biomedical Robotics

Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering

University of Genoa

Biomedical Engineering

• Mathematics
• Geometry
• Physics (Thermodynamics, Mechanics, Electromagnetism
• Analog and Digital Signal Processing
• Electromagnetic Fields
• Biomedical Instrumentation
• Chemistry
• Materials Science
• Biomechanics
• Physiology
• Programming (C / C++ / Matlab)
• Electronic Circuits
• Bioelectronics