About
UX researcher by training, LLM engineer by practice.
I work at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely share a desk: user experience research and applied large-language-model engineering. My degrees — both summa cum laude, in Communication Sciences and in Experience Design — trained me to start from people; my research position at the University of Siena trained me to end with working systems.
As a Research Scholar at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC), I build and evaluate LLM-based systems with industrial partners: translating raw SIEM alerts into decisions non-specialists can act on, benchmarking sub-8B models on edge hardware, and designing retrieval pipelines for clinical data. Explainability is the through-line — not as a compliance checkbox, but as the property that makes AI usable by the people it is meant to serve.
What drives me is building AI where that combination matters: systems that real people — analysts, clinicians, technicians — can trust with real decisions.
- Languages
- Italian — Native
- English — C1/C2 (CEFR)
- Siena, Italy
- Research Scholar · University of Siena (DISPOC)
Experience
Where I’ve worked.
April 2025 – present · Siena, Italy
Research Scholar
University of Siena — Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC)
Applied AI research and development with industrial partners, focused on making LLM-based systems explainable, private, and deployable.
- Cracker Breaker — AI module of a next-generation security product: LLM integration with the Wazuh SIEM to translate raw alerts into actionable intelligence for non-specialists.
- SAAM — edge AI with SECO: benchmarking sub-8B LLMs on industrial chipsets and prototyping on-device assistants for privacy-sensitive diagnostics.
- HEART — clinical AI: RAG over patient records, privacy-first OCR, and human-in-the-loop interface design for a surgical clinic.
October 2022 – December 2024 · Siena, Italy
Social Media Manager
Taste of Italy Srl
Ran multi-platform content strategy alongside my studies: trend and pattern analysis, bespoke content aligned to audience profiles, competitor analysis, and continuous iteration on user feedback.
Academic path
Where my reasoning came from.
Two summa cum laude degrees and a thesis path through Design Thinking — from Communication Sciences into applied AI, with research that turned into shipped products.
2022 – 2024
110/110 summa cum laudeMSc, Communication Strategies and Techniques — Technologies and Methods for Experience Design
University of Siena
ThesisThesis: designing an innovation path for Siena’s candidacy as a UNESCO City of Music.
2019 – 2022
110/110 summa cum laudeBSc, Communication Sciences
University of Siena
ThesisThesis: developing the getting-started mindset for Siena’s first energy community through Design Thinking.
Certifications
Verified capabilities.
A ledger of industry-issued skill badges and continuing training credentials.
(opens in a new tab)Google Cloud
Prompt Design in Vertex AI
(opens in a new tab)Google Cloud
The Basics of Google Cloud Compute
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Educate Getting Started with Storage
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Educate Introduction to Cloud 101
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Educate Machine Learning Foundations
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Educate Getting Started with Compute
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Educate Introduction to Generative AI
DISPOC — University of Siena
Edge AI Course
OpenCourse / Independent study
Energy Management for Real Estate
Independent course
Corso di Marketing
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