2026 —
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Work
Employment, education, academic service, and awards.
Current
Employment history
2025–26
AI Research Scientist
Sapient Intelligence·Boston, USA
Generative AI and probabilistic inference for reasoning, language, and vision. Contributed to the release of HRM-Text and Unigen, state-of-the-art models for their size.
2023–25
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mila AI Institute·Montreal, Canada
Postdoc in Yoshua Bengio's group. Generative AI, probabilistic inference, and AI applications to computer vision, drug discovery, and robotics.
Research and Teaching Assistant — IFT6390B — Foundation of Machine Learning (graduate course).
2021–23
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard University·Boston, USA
AI for healthcare and genomics. Deep generative models for bio-sequence design, working with Dr. Ming-Ru Wu on tumor biology and immunotherapy.
2021–23
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute·Boston, USA
AI for healthcare and genomics, jointly with Harvard University.
2021
AI Research Scientist
Naver Corp.·Seoul, South Korea
Visiting researcher. Representation learning, bias, robustness, and generalization in deep learning.
2020–21
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Cambridge·Cambridge, UK
AI and robotics.
2020–21
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge·Cambridge, UK
College fellowship in AI and robotics.
2017–20
PhD Candidate in AI and Robotics
Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory, University of Cambridge·Cambridge, UK
Machine learning for sensory perception and action in robotic systems, supervised by Prof. Fumiya Iida.
Research and Teaching Assistant — 3F8 Inference · Engineering Tripos Part IIA · Robotics, Part IA.
2020
Freelance Writer in Artificial Intelligence
Academic Minds·London, UK
2018–19
AI/ML Consultant
Critical Future·London, UK
2016
Junior Software Engineer
Extraordinary Managed Services Ltd·Edinburgh, UK
Education
2017–20
PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
University of Cambridge·Cambridge, UK
Thesis: Soft Morphological Computation, Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory.
2019
Brains, Minds and Machines Summer School
Massachusetts Institute of Technology·Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
AI and computational neuroscience.
2013–17
BEng (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
University of Edinburgh·Edinburgh, UK
First Class Honors. Class Prize for the highest cumulative grade and Howe Prize for the best performance in Artificial Intelligence.
Academic service
2022–25
- Grant Reviewer, European Research Council (ERC).
- Program Committee Member, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
2021
- Workshop Co-organizer, Robot-Assisted Systems for Medical Training, ICRA 2021, Xi'an, China.
- Workshop Co-chair, Biohybrid, Cyborg, Human in the Loop, International Workshop on Embodied Intelligence (EI 2021), Cambridge, UK.
2020
- Workshop Co-organizer, Robot-Assisted Training for Primary Care, IROS 2020, Las Vegas, USA.
- Workshop Organizer, Human-Robot Medical Interaction, 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge, UK.
2019 —
- Review Editor, Bio-Inspired Robotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
2018
- Workshop Co-organizer, Agri-Food Robotics, Cambridge, UK.
2017 —
- Reviewer, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, and AAAI.
- Reviewer, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), ICRA, IROS, RoboSoft, and BioRob.
Awards & honors
2025
EB-1A “Einstein Visa”
United States Government
In recognition of extraordinary ability in AI/ML research.
2023
Language Sciences Incubator Fund
University of Cambridge·Cambridge, UK
2020
GMSI Award
University of Tokyo·Tokyo, Japan
2018
AJS Special Award — Industrial Manipulation Challenge
World Robotics Summit 2018·Tokyo, Japan
2018
1st Place — Robot Rescue Simulation League
RoboCup 2018·Montreal, Canada
2018
1st Place — Manipulation Challenge
IEEE RoboSoft 2018·Livorno, Italy
2017
Howe Undergraduate Prize
University of Edinburgh·Edinburgh, UK
Best performance in Artificial Intelligence of the graduating class.
2017
BEng AI & SE Class Prize
University of Edinburgh·Edinburgh, UK
Highest cumulative grade of the graduating class.
2015
Edinburgh Award
University of Edinburgh·Edinburgh, UK
2009–13
Borsa di Studio Benivegna
Palermo, Italy
Scholarship, awarded three times.