About me

I am a Research Scientist at the Spatial AI Lab at Microsoft in Zurich, led by Professor Marc Pollefeys. Previously, I was an Ellis PhD student at the Polytechnic University of Turin, working on egocentric video understanding. I was advised by Professor Barbara Caputo and co-advised by Professor Dima Damen.

Personal Interests

I’m passionate about trail running, hiking, and skiing. Beyond physical activities, I also enjoy playing music. I practiced classical guitar for many years and I am now expanding my skills by learning the piano.

News

  • June 2025 - Just joined Microsoft Spatial AI Lab in Zurich as a Research Scientist!

  • May 2025 - Recognized as a CVPR Outstanding Reviewer

  • April 2025 - I completed a 3 months internship at Huawei in Helsinki working on post-training optimization of large vision language models

Resume

[To be updated] Get the complete Curriculum Vitae from here

Education

  1. Polytechnic of Turin

    2022 - 2025

    PhD in the Control and Computer Engineering Department (DAUIN) supervised by Professor Barbara Caputo tackling low-footprint online egocentric video understanding.

  2. University of Bristol

    Feb. 2023 - Jul. 2023

    6 months ELLIS PhD Visiting Exchange supervised by Professor Dima Damen tackling Long-form egocentric video understanding.

  3. Polytechnic of Turin & Polytechnic of Milan

    2019 — 2021

    Double degree - MSc in Data Science And Engineering supervised by Barbara Caputo and Matteo Matteucci. Thesis title "EVEgo: Egocentric Event-data for cross-domain analysis in first-person action recognition"

  4. Polytechnic of Turin

    2016 — 2019

    BSc in Computer Engineering

Experience

  1. Research Scientist @ Microsoft Spatial AI Lab

    June 2025 - ongoing

    I just joined the Spatial AI Lab at Microsoft in Zurich as a Research Scientist.

  2. Internship @ Huawei Helsinki

    Feb. 2025 - Apr. 2025

    I worked on post-training optimization of large vision language models for video understanding.

  3. Internship @ Focoos AI

    May. 2024 - Nov. 2024

    Focoos AI provides cutting-edge software that, based on customer requirements for the application, hardware, and data, automatically designs and trains customized optimized neural networks, eliminating the need for expensive hardware, reducing labor-intensive tasks, and minimizing human errors. I am currently working on multi-object tracking supervised by Fabio Cermelli

  4. Innovation 4 Change

    2022

    I4C is one of the major innovation journeys created by CERN IdeaSquare which promotes the creation of start-ups able to identify innovative and scalable solutions to solve global challenges.

  5. Alta Scuola Politecnica

    2019 — 2021

    Honour program - A school for high achieving students who have a passion for innovation and who wish to develop their potential in a multidisciplinary community

  6. School of Entrepreneurship & Innovation (SEI)

    2020 — 2021

    A 12-month deep-tech experience during which selected students develop a tech product guided by companies in the fields of AI, Robotics, Biotech, Space Tech & AR/VR for the first 6 months, and then develop and launch a deep-tech startup in the second 6 months.

  7. Young Talents program

    2016 — 2019

    Multidisciplinary program for top 2% students.

  8. European Innovation Academy

    2018

    Educational course to design and develop a new startup from zero to a complete business plan.

  9. The Lodge Arts Centre

    2016

    Work experience as a web developer done in the context of the "Master dei talenti" program funded by Fondazione CRT

Publications

Awards