Curriculum Vitae

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Positions

Oct 2023 – present · Assistant Professor (RTD-A), Statistics (SECS-S/01) — University of Cagliari, Dept. of Business and Economics. PNRR Project e.INS — Ecosystem of Innovation for Next Generation Sardinia, Spoke 6.
Jan 2022 – Oct 2023 · Post-doctoral researcher, Statistical Learning Methods for Text Data Analysis — University of Cagliari.
2017 – 2022 · Early-stage researcher on the projects ISIDE, OMD, and an ICT platform for tourism (University of Cagliari).

Apr 2021 · Ph.D. cum Laude in Business and Economics (Quantitative — Statistics, SECS-S/01), University of Cagliari. Thesis: General Sentiment Decomposition: opinion mining based on raw Natural Language text. Supervisors: Prof. C. Conversano, Prof. F. Mola.
Nov 2016 · M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Cagliari (102/110). Thesis: Conversion of RDF representation from FRED Machine Reader to AMR. Supervisors: Prof. D. A. G. Reforgiato Recupero, Prof. G. Fenu.
Sep 2014 · B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Cagliari (100/110).

Nov 2025 – Nov 2037 · Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor, sector 13/D1 — Statistics (Ministerial Decree n. 1796/2023).
May 2025 · English C1, certified by CLA, University of Cagliari.

June 2026 · Visiting Professor, Universidad de Valladolid (Spain) — invited by Prof. J. L. García-Lapresta. PREFSTAT 2026.
Oct–Nov 2025 · Visiting Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) — Prof. A. Nakayama. MGR project General Sentiment Decomposition.
Jun–Jul 2025 · Visiting Professor, Universitetet i Oslo (Norway) — Prof. V. Vitelli. PREFSTAT 2025.
Oct 2023 · Visiting Fellow, Constructor University Bremen (Germany) — Prof. A. F. X. Wilhelm.
Feb–May 2020 · Visiting Fellow, Jacobs University Bremen (Germany) — DAAD scholarship.
Jun–Sep 2019 · Visiting Fellow, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) — Prof. T. Aluja Banet. Erasmus Placedoc.

2025 · Co-author of the Best Paper at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Bio-Inspired Processing (BIP 2025), Costa Rica.
2023 · Young Speaker, BTO 2023 (Florence) — selected among the 10 most innovative proposals on the travel industry.
2018 · Best communication award at Stats Under the Stars 4 (SUS4), funded by the Italian Statistical Society (SIS).

ISI — International Statistical Institute
SIS — Italian Statistical Society (incl. y-SIS, CLADAG, SDS-SIS groups)
PREFSTAT — PREFerence STATistics group on Advanced Statistical Learning for Preference, Ranking, and Ordinal Data

2026 · Chair and organizer, invited session "Navigating Complexity: new methodological frontiers in Textual and Preference Analysis" — ECDA 2026, Stralsund.
2024 · Chair, Local Organizing Committee — PREFSTAT 2024, Calasetta.
2021 · Technical Chair, SIS 2021 (50th SIS Meeting), Pisa–Cagliari.
Referee for: Quality and Quantity, Machine Learning with Applications, Knowledge and Information Systems, Information Processing and Management, Cognitive Computation, Current Issues in Tourism, Operations Research Perspectives, Computational Statistics, Journal of Supercomputing, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, IFCS 2026, and Springer SCDAKO volumes.

2024–2025 · Sharper Night — European Researchers' Night (Cagliari and Nuoro): promoter of outreach projects on sentiment analysis, word embeddings, and language models.
2025–2026 · SMART-C: pro bono project for the Municipality of Calasetta on the development of local tourism attractions and resources. Project promoter.

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