๐ MSc in Computational Science and Engineering at EPFL, Lausanne.
๐ BSc in Physics at University of Bologna (UniBo)
๐จโ๐ป Focusing on Computational Social Science, Network science, Machine Learning, and Data Science.
โจ Passionate about politics, hiking and board games.
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๐จ Projects highlights
Topical classification of Wikipedia images: Developing a hierarchical classifier for Wikipedia images, categorizing them only by their topic. Designed a set of linguistically motivated heuristics to associate images with training labels within a custom taxonomy. Collaboration between dlab and Wikimedia Research.
A data-driven Political Compass: Analyzed a dataset of ~180 milion quotations from news media from 2008 and 2020, leveraging Topic Extraction and Sentiment Analysis to infer a new Political Compass based on quotes from US politicians. Read our data story!
Disambiguating Voynich Manuscript transliterations: Fine-tuned word embedding models (fastText, word2vec) to disambiguate transliterations of the Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious medieval document written in a completely unknown script. Benchmarks were built for Italian and Latin with comparable scarce data, obtaining an accuracy of 86%.