{"id":26,"date":"2018-04-05T12:36:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T12:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walterbot.ai\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:18:58","slug":"resume","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/walterbot.ai\/it\/resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Education<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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2008-2012<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tUniversity of Verona<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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BSc in Multimedia Information Technology<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Thesis in Signal processing: \u201dAutochecker: a speech recognition tool for research validation\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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2012-2014<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tUniversity of Verona<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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MSc in Computer Science and Engineering<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Curriculum on Visual Computing and Pattern Recognition.
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2021-2024<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tUniversity of Verona<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Ph.D. in Distributed intelligent systems<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Thesis: \u201d Advancing Federated Learning in Biomedical Applications:Tools,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Best Practices, and Implementations<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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Experience<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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05\/25 - Now<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tOwn Business + AI Wonder<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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AI Freelancer<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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I am currently running two parallel businesses:<\/p>

\"Walterbot.ai\": Training, Consulting and Education on AI and public events. Already have <\/span>customers and currently hiring.<\/span><\/p>

Admin-member of AI Wonder: innovative Start-up building RAG applications fully private hosted on-prem!<\/p>

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06\/20 - 05\/25<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tIntel Corp.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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AI - Technical Lead EMEA<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Supports and coordinates activities for critical customers engagements for POCs, development and deployment of AI applications;<\/p>

Deliver External and internal talks and training sessions at events;<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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03\/17 - 06\/20<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tIntel Corp.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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AI - Technical Specialist EMEA<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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My mission is to inform, support and drive the technical side of customer engagements across EMEA, with POCs on Data Analytics and AI.<\/p>

Daily activities include (but are not limited to):
\u2022 Brainstorming with Data Scientists for development and deployment;
\u2022 Developing, testing and sharing Best-Known-Methods (BKMs) to simplify the adoption of Intel HW+SW AI tools;<\/p>

\u2022 Delivering training and technical workshops on AI to customers and internal stakeholders.<\/p>

Tools:<\/strong> Python, DL, ML, Tensorflow, MKL, mpi, HPC UGE\/Slurm, Linux<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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08\/2016 - 02\/2017<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tCereproc Ltd.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Software Developer<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Main activities:
- Support the Italian version of the voice cloning system
- Improve the Italian Text-To-Speech engine
- Front\/Back end software development<\/p>

Tools: <\/span><\/strong>Python, Linux, JavaScript, HTML, SW versioning<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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08\/2015 - 02\/2016<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tBizVento + Glasgow UNI<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Data Scientist<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Analysis of the interaction between BizVento App and its users: KEBOP project<\/a>.<\/p>

The overall goal of this project is to leverage multiple data sources to:
1) build prediction functions for users profiling
2) Improve the usability of the app<\/p>

Tools: <\/span><\/strong>Python, Statistical models and hypothesis testing, Clustering, Unsupervised learning<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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03\/2014 - 05\/2015<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tKiratech srl. + University of Verona<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Data Scientist<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Design of novel data mining techniques (ML+DL) to automate the production of training datasets, for deployment on robotic platforms.<\/p>

Tools: <\/strong>Matlab, SVMs, DNNs (Caffe), cross validations<\/span> <\/em>
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04\/2013 - 03-2014<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tDep. of Biotechnology, University of Verona<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Data Analyst<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Structural analysis of the bachelor degree in Biotechnology to find strengths and areas of improvements.<\/p>

Tools:<\/strong> Online surveys, Python, Week reports<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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Publications<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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April 2025<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tEnvironmental Modelling & Software<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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A new conditional generative adversarial neural network approach for statistical downscaling of the ERA5 reanalysis over the Italian Peninsula<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Jan 2025<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tIEEE Access pp. 86588 \u2013 86598<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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FLavourite: Horizontal and Vertical Federated Learning Setting Comparison<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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November 2023<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tPatterns 4(11): 100856 (2023)<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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MERGE: A model for multi-input biomedical federated learning <\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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August 2023<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t Euro-Par 2023: 383-396<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Model-Agnostic Federated Learning<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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March 2023<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tIEEE Access 11: 96865-96878 (2023)<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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FeLebrities: A User-Centric Assessment of Federated Learning Frameworks<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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October 2022<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tPhysics in Medicine & Biology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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OpenFL: the open federated learning library<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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July 2019 <\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tIntelligent Systems Reference Library book series (ISRL, volume 159)<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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What Do Prospective Students Want? An Observational Study of Preferences About Subject of Study in Higher Education<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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May 2019<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tIEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Deploying AI Frameworks on Secure HPC Systems with Containers<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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August 2015<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tICIAP: Image Analysis and Processing<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Crowdsearching Training Sets for Image Classification<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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March 2015<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tECCV: European Conference on Computer Vision<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Semantic- analysis object recognition: Automatic training set generation using textual tags<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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November 2014<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\tICMI: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Statistical analysis of personality and identity in chats using a keylogging platform<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Awards<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Volunteer of the year - 2021<\/h3>\n\t\t
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Elected Volunteer of the year by Junior Achievements Europe for the mentorship given to a team of students from a secondary school in Italy. Watch the Video Interview<\/a> here.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

Fearless attitude - 2019<\/h3>\n\t\t
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Intel Division Recognition Award<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

Result Oriented - 2019<\/h3>\n\t\t
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Intel Division Recognition Award<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

Business Ideas - 2015<\/h3>\n\t\t
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4th placement at \"Start-cup Veneto\" with a business Idea called \"Emocounter\": a portable tool for monitoring the white blood cells.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

Student Career Award - 2014<\/h3>\n\t\t
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Awarded with:\u00a0http:\/\/leat.unice.fr\/MEDDAYS2014\/#page=home<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

Student Representative Role Model - 2014<\/h3>\n\t\t
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Written Encomium from the heads of the \"Area of Science and Engineering\" at University of Verona, for the Student Representative contribution<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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