Curriculum Vitae

A complete and up-to-date version of my CV is available as a PDF: download CV (PDF).

Below is a short summary.

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).

Education

• 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).

Qualifications

• 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.

Visiting positions

• 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.

Honors and Awards

• 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).

Memberships

• ISI — International Statistical Institute
• SIS — Italian Statistical Society (incl. y-SIS, CLADAG, SDS-SIS groups)

Service

• 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, Computational Statistics, Journal of Supercomputing, IFCS 2026, and Springer SCDAKO volumes.

Technical skills

R · Python · C/C++ · Java · JavaScript · OCaml · PHP · SQL · LaTeX.