About Me
I’m a currently an applied scientist in Inception - G42. I have 4+ years of experience in information retrieval, personalized systems, and large language models. I’ve published in top-tier venues such as SIGIR, NAACL, WWW, EMNLP, and ECIR. My work bridges foundational research and applied ML, focusing on NLP, user modeling, neural retrieval, and scalable IR systems.
Key Skills: GenAI, LLMs, IR, RAG | Machine Learning, Deep Learning | Python, R, C, Java | SQL, NoSQL | Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure) | Data Visualization (Tableau) | Big Data (Spark, Hadoop)
Publications
A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Personalized Search Evaluation
CIKM ‘22: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management
SE-PEF: a Resource for Personalized Expert Finding
SIGIR-AP ‘23: Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region
DESIRE-ME: Domain-Enhanced Supervised Information Retrieval Using Mixture-of-Experts
ECIR ‘24: European Conference on Information Retrieval
SE-PQA: Personalized Community Question Answering
WWW ‘24: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024
Denoising Attention for Query-aware User Modeling in Personalized Search
NAACL ‘24: Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Synthetic Data Generation with Large Language Models for Personalized Community Question Answering
WI-IAT ‘24: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
Leveraging Large Language Models for Medical Information Extraction and Query Generation
WI-IAT ‘24: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
Investigating Task Arithmetic for Zero-Shot Information Retrieval
SIGIR ‘25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
DIETA: A Decoder-only Transformer-based Model for Italian-English Machine TrAnslation
CLiC-it ‘25: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
Leveraging Cognitive Complexity of Texts for Contextualization in Dense Retrieval
EMNLP ‘25: The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Investigating Mixture of Experts in Dense Retrieval
WI-IAT ‘25: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
Certifications & Awards
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SAS Viya Certified Specialist – Machine Learning Verify
- Cloud Management with Docker and Kubernetes. Verify
- Kirey Group Kaggle Challenge – Technical Award Verify on Kaggle
- Fondazione Tronchetti Provera Grant – Awarded to top-performing students in Data Science.
- Outstanding Reviewer Award – ECIR 2024 Verify
Services
Conference Reviews:
- ICTIR 2022
- ICTIR 2023
- CIKM 2023
- CIKM 2024
- ECIR 2024
- ECIR 2025
- RecSys 2024
- SIGIR 2025
- ECAI 2025
- ACL 2025
- EMNLP 2025
Journal Reviews:
- Computers in Biology and Medicine
- Pattern Recognition Letters
- Information Systems
- ACM Transactions On Information Systems
Work Experience
Applied Scientist
Sep 2025 – Present
Inception, G42, Abu Dhabi
Post Doc Researcher
Sep 2024 – Aug 2025
University of Milano-Bicocca
Information Retrieval, Master Degree in Computer Science
Teaching Assistant
Sep 2022 – Aug 2024
University of Milano-Bicocca
Text Mining & Search, Master Degree in Data Science
Tutor & Teaching Assistant
Sep 2022 – Aug 2024
University of Milano-Bicocca
Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems, Bachelor’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence
Teaching Assistant
Sep 2024 – Aug 2025
University of Pavia and University of Milano-Bicocca
Research Assistant
Feb 2021 – Aug 2021
University of Milano-Bicocca