Education
- Laurea in Computer Engineering (B.Tech equivalent), University of Pisa, Italy, 2001-2004, 110/110 cum laude
- Laurea Specialistica in Computer Engineering (M.Eng equivalent), University of Pisa, Italy, 2004-2007, 110/110 cum laude
- Diploma di Licenza in Engineering, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, 2001-2004, 100/100 cum laude
- Diploma di Licenza Specialistica in Engineering, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, 2004-2007, 100/100
Work and Related
- Software Engineer at Ask.com European Research Center, Corso Italia 58, Pisa, Italy, 2006-08 - 2009-04 At Ask.com I focused mainly on data clustering and I have played a little part in creating Bignews.
- Research Intern at Ask.com, 2005-08 - 2006-08
- Visiting Researcher at the Computer Security Lab (formerly known as RSL), University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005-10 - 2006-03
- Summer student at CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research), CH-1211 Geneva 23, 2004-06 - 2004-08
- Tutor of the Italian team designated to participate in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), 2002-2005
Awards
- Participation in the XII and XIII International Olympiad in Informatics held in Beijing, China, and Tampere, Finland, respectively, selected as a member of the Italian team, after national competitions
- Admission to the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, which granted me a full-board scholarship to support my undergraduate and graduate studies.
People I worked with
- Dr. Andrea Mennucci, developing a software for contour coding for bitonal imagery.
- Prof. Bruno Codenotti, publishing a friendly tutorial on small worlds.
- Prof. Sebastiano Vigna, Prof. Roberto Grossi, Prof. Paolo Boldi, Prof. Massimo Santini, Prof. Romeo Rizzi tutoring the Italian team for the International Olympiad in Informatics
- Prof. Roberto Grossi working on succinct data structure during my B.Tech Thesis
- Dr. Luca Valcarenghi working on Grid Computing
- Dr. Marco Cococcioni working on complexity reduction of Mamdani fuzzy systems
- Prof. Giovanni Vigna during my Master thesis, working on stateful, high speed intrusion detection, and occasionally, helping organizing the International Catch the Flag
- Dr. Antonio Gulli, Dr. Antonio Savona, colleagues at Ask.com, working on clustering of news articles and automatic template detection in web pages