About me

Hi Folks! I'm Michele (but also known as Mike): a PhD student in the first National Italian PhD program in Artificial Intelligence at Campus Bio‑Medico Univesity and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. I'm currently a research intern at NEC Laboratories Euope (Lab: Biological AI)

In recent years, I was a visiting researcher at The University of Edinburgh, a research fellow in “automatic image captioning for visual media contents” and a postgraduate researcher in “interpretability of neural network systems”.

My research interests are:

  • NLP

    Natural Language Processing

  • BioNLP

    Biological NLP

  • XAI

    Explainable AI

  • Ethics

    Ethics AI

Affiliations

Resume

Education

  1. Campus Bio-Medico University

    PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence 11/2021 - ongoing

    PhD Topic: AI-powered prediction of tumor neoantigen burden for personalized cancer vaccines

  2. University of Rome Tor Vergata

    Master's degree in Computer Science 10/2018 - 10/2020

    Thesis: Hate Speech Models and Where They Fail: Racial and Homophobic Bias on Social Networks

  3. University of Rome Tor Vergata

    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science 10/2014 - 05/2018

    Thesis: Averaging algorithms for Community Detection: simulation on aleatory and real graphs

  4. King's college London

    Exchange student 08/2012 - 09/2012

Work experience

  1. NEC Laboratories Europe

    Research Intern 04/2024 - ongoing

    Development generative AI models to predict novel virus sequences
    Build/Train reinforcement learning models for improved virus outbreak prediction

  2. The University of Edinburgh

    Visiting researcher 01/2023 - 07/2023

    Fundamental research in Explainability AI models and Compositional Semantic Algorithms for ccRCC (clear cell Renal Cell Carcinoma) genome sequences
    Corpora generation based on real human‑genome sequences

  3. The University of Rome Tor Vergata

    Research fellow 01/2021 - 11/2021

    Image Captioning for Visual Media Contents Research

  4. The University of Rome Tor Vergata

    Postgraduate Researcher 11/2020 - 01/2020

    Interpretability of Neural Network Systems
    Injecting External Knowledge in Conversational AI models

Research Papers