Curriculum vitae

Positions

2023 - ongoing: postdoctoral researcher at Bocconi University (Italy), working in professor Luca Trevisan’s team.
2022 - 2023: postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University (Finland), working in professor Jukka Suomela’s team.

2019-2022: PhD student in Computer Science at Inria & Université Côte D’Azur in the COATI joint project-team
- Thesis Project: On the Collective Behaviors of Bio-inspired Distributed Systems (manuscript)
- Supervisors: Emanuele Natale and Nicolas Nisse
- Visits:
  - September 2022: visiting PhD student at Aalto University, working with professor Jukka Suomela.
  - May 2022: visiting PhD student at Inria Rennes, working with Inria researcher George Giakkoupis
  - December 2021: visiting PhD student at Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, working with professor Andrea Clementi
  - June 2021: visiting PhD student at Gran Sasso Science Isntititute (L’Aquila, Italy), working with professor Pierluigi Crescenzi
  - October 2019 - January 2020: visiting PhD student at Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, working with professor Andrea Clementi
2016-2019: M.Sc. in Mathematics for Applications, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
- Final evaluation: 110/110 with honors
- Thesis: On the convergence time of the Undecided-State dynamics with three colors
- Advisors: Andrea Clementi, Gustavo Posta
- 24 ECTS for teaching (partly extracurricular) on pedagogy, psychology, and education
2016, from March to July: Erasmus+ program at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
2013-2016: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
- Final evaluation: 110/110 with honors
- Thesis: Il problema dell’omeomorfismo tra grafi diretti
- Advisor: Ivano Salvo

February 2023 - May 2023
- Joona Jarre, Computer Science student (Aalto University): thesis on primality testing and integer factoring
- Peik Etzel, Computer Science student (Aalto University): thesis on coordinated robot motion planning
- Linus Jern, Computer Science student (Aalto University): thesis on population protocols for the consensus problem

July 2024: Ph.D. course on causal limits of distributed quantum computation (6 hours) at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, Italy.
February - April 2022: teaching practicum (56 hours) for the database course (PL/SQL) at Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France.

2020: winner of Borsa di perfezionamento all’estero, from Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
2016 and 2019: two-time winner of a collaboration scholarship by merit, Department of Mathematics, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

November 2024: Organizer of WAND (Workshop on Analysis of Network Dynamics) colocated with “DISC 2024”, Madrid, Spain.
October 2024: Invited talk at workshop “ADGA” (Advances in Distributed Graph Algorithms) colocated with “DISC 2024”, Madrid, Spain.
January 2024: Contributed talk at workshop “Mathematics for AI and Machine Learning”, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.
October 2023: Organizer of WAND (Workshop on Analysis of Network Dynamics) colocated with DISC 2023, GSSI, L’Aquila, Italy.
February 2023: Workshop in Distributed Graph Algorithms, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
June 2022: Third Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics (seminar), Bologna, Italy.
June 2022: Highlights of Algorithms (HALG 2022) (poster), London, UK.
March 2021: Le Monde des Mathématiques Industrielles (MOMI 2021) (poster), Virtual event.
July 2020: UCA Deep Learning School 2020, Virtual event.
August 2019: 20th Max Planck Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science on Games, Brains, and Distributed Computing, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Summatizing activity as reviewer and subreviewer.