Education
M.Sc in Data Science
University of Bari Aldo Moro 2021 – 2024
- Grade: 110/110 cum laude
- Special Mention
B.Sc in Computer Science
University of Bari Aldo Moro 2018 – 2021
- Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Research Experience
PhD Student
Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence for Railways
ARA Laboratory, University of Bari Aldo Moro October 2025 – Present
Research topics:
- Ontology-aware Graph Neural Networks
- Knowledge Graph Embeddings with schema constraints
- Neurosymbolic learning methods
- Railway knowledge engineering
- Specification validation and consistency checking
Current work investigates how Description Logic axioms and symbolic constraints can be injected into machine learning models to improve semantic fidelity and reasoning capabilities.
Research Grant Fellow
Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning
KDDE Laboratory, University of Bari Aldo Moro January 2024 – June 2024
Research topics:
- Hybrid quantum-classical neural architectures
- Quantum image embeddings
- Quantum metric learning
- Contrastive and incremental learning
- Adaptive computer vision systems
Industry Experience
Research Internship
Ai2 Applicazioni di Ingegneria e Informatica April 2026 – Present
Activities include:
- Development of ontology engineering pipelines for railway data
- Transformation of engineering data into RDF/RDFS knowledge graphs
- Alignment with ERA and RailML ontologies
- Neurosymbolic AI methods for railway engineering support
Academic Service
Reviewing
Journals
- Semantic Web Journal
- Artificial Intelligence Journal
Conferences
- ECAI
- ESWC
- ISWC
- SAC
- IJCAI
- KR
Committees
- Program Committee Member, NeSy Journal Special Issue on Neurosymbolic Benchmarks
- Web Presence and Publicity Chair, ISWC 2026
Awards
- 🏆 Best Doctoral Paper Award — RuleML+RR 2025
- 🎓 Travel Grant — European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence 2026
Technical Skills
Programming
Python · Java · C/C++ · JavaScript
Machine Learning
PyTorch · PyKEEN · scikit-learn · Qiskit · NumPy · Pandas
Semantic Web & Knowledge Representation
RDFLib · OWLReady2 · OWL API · Protégé · ROBOT · SPARQL
Databases
SQL · SPARQL
Web Development
React · Node.js · HTML · CSS
Tools
Git · LaTeX · Linux · macOS · Windows
Training
- Reasoning Web Summer School (RuleML+RR 2025), Istanbul
- DeepLearn School Volunteer, Bari 2023