Hello, I’m Francesco and I’m a first-year PhD student at University of Trieste and at AREA Science Park, under the supervision of Alberto Cazzaniga.
I’m currently working on Mechanistic Interpretability and NLP4Good (with a focus on the applications of NLP to healtcare), where I’m mostly interested in the intersection between geometrical and causal tools for interpretability.
Previusly I was an intern at Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, in the Empirical Inference department (Director Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf), working under the supervision of Zhijing Jin, where I wrote part of my master thesis.
I’m also a sailor and recently I started to learn climbing. I grew up in a small town in the center of Italy, but I’m currently living in Trieste, a beautiful city on the sea in the north-east of Italy.
News
I've started a PhD at University of Trieste and AREA Science Park. 🚀 .
Our paper (and my first one!) has been accepted to ACL 2024! 🎉 🎉 Check out our work here .
I've started to work as a Early Stage Researcher at AREA Science Park. I'll be working on LLMs and Interpretability.
Experience
Early Stage Researcher (Borsista di Ricerca)
AREA Science Park
Trieste, Italy
Jan. 2024 - July 2024
Research Intern
Max-Planck Institute of Intelligent Systems
Tubingen, Germany
Sep. 2023 - Jan. 2024
Machine Learning Engineering Intern
PLUS Srl
Trieste, Italy
Feb. 2023 - Apr. 2023
Education
PhD in Applied Data Science & AI
University of Trieste
Trieste, Italy
2024 - Now
MSc in Data Science and Scientific Computing
University of Trieste, SISSA, ICTP
Trieste, Italy
2024
BSc in Mathematics
University of Rome La Sapienza
Rome, Italy
2020