- August 2025: Paper 'Brain Latent Progression: Individual-based Spatiotemporal Disease Progression on 3D Brain MRIs via Latent Diffusion' accepted for publication in Medical Image Analysis
- March 2025: Selected as a reviewer for MICCAI 2025
- October 2024: Paper 'Brain Latent Progression' nominated and shortlisted for the MICCAI Best Paper and Young Scientist Award (top <1%)
- September 2024: Invited as a speaker to present work on spatiotemporal disease progression modeling at the POND 2024 event, hosted by UCL in London
Research Experience
- September 2022 - March 2023: Intern at Queen Square Analytics
- Since March 2023: Imaging Research Scientist at Queen Square Analytics
- Since February 2025: Visiting Researcher at UCL MANIFOLD lab, supervised by Prof. James Cole
Education
- Bachelor's degree: Computer Science, University of Catania, graduated in July 2021 with cum laude
- Master's degree: Computer Science specializing in data science, University of Catania, graduated in April 2023 with cum laude
- PhD: Data-driven neurodegenerative disease progression modeling, University of Catania, started in August 2023, supervised by Prof. Daniele Ravì
Background
Research interests center around the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to medical imaging with a focus on the study of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease.