Experience
Artificial intelligence since 2021 — in research, in a company, and inside a supervisory authority — mostly applied to financial supervision and financial crime.
Researcher, University of Salerno
Department of Business Sciences — Management & Innovation Systems (DISA-MIS). AI-augmented open-source intelligence for structured information analysis and decision support; anti-money laundering and financial integrity.
AI Expert, Consob
Institutional placement in the Inspection Division of Italy’s financial markets authority. Built an end-to-end system supporting the analysis of investor complaints and of reported financial websites: NLP, large language models, OCR and machine learning. Documented in FinTech Paper No. 19.
Visiting Researcher, HES-SO Valais-Wallis
Switzerland. Explainable AI and multi-agent systems, with the Swiss Digital Center on distributed-ledger technologies and crypto-asset tracking.
Research Collaborator, University of Salerno
Machine learning for blockchain-based asset markets, which became the Expert Systems with Applications paper; and a study with the sociology department on how motivation shapes knowledge exchange inside organisations.
Venture Fellow, MITdesignX Venice
Selected for the Venice cohort of the venture programme of the MIT School of Architecture + Planning. Built the first working prototype of an AI-driven interior fit-out platform, using generative models for automated space design.
Co-founder and CTO, Rellai
PropTech backed by Exor Ventures through the Vento programme and incubated at I3P, the incubator of the Politecnico di Torino. Built the product, the cloud infrastructure and a payment platform tying renovation payments to verified project milestones. Web Summit Startup Programme; Klimahouse 2025 Startup Contest. The company closed in 2025.
Entrepreneur in Residence, Vento
Selected among 40 participants for the venture-building programme funded by Exor Ventures. Formed the founding team, pitched the Exor investment committee and secured pre-seed funding.
PhD, Artificial Intelligence
Politecnico di Torino, Italian national programme. Awarded with distinction. Thesis: “AI-Driven Financial Market Surveillance: Detecting and Preventing Misconduct in Decentralized Systems”.
MSc, Business Consulting and Management
Università degli Studi di Salerno
MSc, Data Science and Innovation Management
Università degli Studi di Salerno
BSc, Economics and Management
LUISS Guido Carli, Rome
Apple Developer Academy
One-year programme in app development, design, business analysis and project management.
For research collaboration, an applied role, or building something together. Finance is where most of my cases have been; the problem — a system that has to justify its decisions to the people accountable for them — is not specific to it.