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Curriculum Vitae

Last updated: January 2025

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🎓Education

PhD in Artificial Intelligence for Society

University of Pisa

2023 - 2026

Pisa, Italy

  • Research focus: Machine translation, Large Language Models, and Creative Text Translation
  • Specialization in LLMs for literary translation and evaluation metrics
  • Expected completion: 2026

Master's Degree in Linguistics

University of Naples

2021 - 2023

Naples, Italy

  • Thesis: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Machine Translation for Literary Works: A comparative study of English and Chinese corpora
  • Grade: 110/110 Cum Laude
  • Focus areas: Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Corpus Linguistics

Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics

University of Naples

2018 - 2021

Naples, Italy

  • Grade: 108/110
  • Languages: English and Chinese
  • Focus areas: General Linguistics, Language Theory, Syntax and Semantics

🔬Research Experience

PhD Researcher

UniOr NLP Lab, University of Naples 'L'Orientale'

2023 - Present

Naples, Italy

  • Working on Machine Translation and LLMs for Creative Text under Prof. Johanna Monti
  • Research focus: Literary translation, idiomatic expression translation, and creativity metrics
  • Published 6 papers in peer-reviewed venues
  • Presented work at 4 international conferences

Visiting Researcher

ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University

March 2024 - July 2024

Dublin, Ireland

  • Research visit focusing on machine translation for creative-text translation
  • Collaborated on creativity studies and MT post-editing
  • Contributed to WMT 2024 shared task submissions
  • Worked with leading researchers in speech and language technology

👨‍🏫Teaching Experience

Subject Expert

University of Naples 'L'Orientale'

2023 - Present

Napoli, Italy

  • Course: Specialized Translation
  • Course: Translation Studies
  • Responsibilities: Leading lab sessions, grading, office hours

Teaching Assistant

LeWagon Brussels

2022 - 2023

Bruxelles, Belgium

  • Course: Data Science Bootcamp
  • Topic: Data Science, Machine Learning and NLP

🏆Awards and Honors

Candidate for Best Paper Award

Machine Translation Summit, Geneva (Switzerland)

2025

Best Project Award

PhD Summer School in AI & Democracy, Pisa (Italy)

2025

Erasmus+ Grant

University of Napoli L'Orientale, Napoli (Italy)

2023

China International Exchange

University of Napoli L'Orientale, Napoli (Italy)

2022

💡Skills

Programming Languages

Python90%
Java70%

Machine Learning & AI

Transformers85%
Scikit-learn95%
Matplotlib80%
Numpy90%
Pandas75%

Tools & Technologies

Git/GitHub95%
Docker70%
LaTeX90%
AWS65%

Languages

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Italian
Native
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English
Fluent
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French
Fluent
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Chinese
Intermediate

🤝Professional Service

Conference Reviewer

  • Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT) - 2025

Journal Reviewer

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Leadership & Volunteering

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