Awards: Best Poster at NeurIPS 2021 ENLSP Workshop, 1st place in both 6GB constrained and unconstrained tracks at NeurIPS Efficient Open-Domain QA competition 2020, Google Best Paper Award at AKBC 2020, Best Paper Award Runner Up at DIMWA 2019.
Research Experience
Researcher at FAIR (Meta AI) from 2018 to 2022, focusing on Knowledge-Intensive NLP; Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters R&D department; Data Engineer at KPMG.
Education
PhD from Sapienza University, advisor Prof. Leonardo Querzoni. Visiting Researcher at the Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim, supervised by Prof. Rainer Gemulla during PhD.
Background
Research Interests: AI-driven Scientific Discovery, Knowledge-Intensive Natural Language Processing. Background: Group Leader at EMBL Rome since September 2025; Co-Founder of Samaya AI from 2022, developing an AI-powered knowledge-discovery platform.
Miscellany
Invited talks include but not limited to: Panelist at ROMA.AI on Generative AI, Invited talk at Sapienza DIAG Seminar Series on Retrieval Augmented Generation, etc.