CV

General Information

Full Name Mattia Ferrarini
Email mattiaferrarini22@gmail.com
Residency Bologna, Italy

Education

  • 2022 - today
    BSc Computer Science
    University of Bologna
    • Current GPA: 30.0/30.0
  • 2022 - today
    STEM School of Excellence
    Collegio Superiore, University of Bologna
    • Collegio Superiore is an institution of excellence offering an interdisciplinary education to selected students.
    • 9 STEM students are admitted each year and provided with scholarship, tuition fee exemption, personal tutor, and free accommodation.
    • Current GPA: 29.75/30.0
  • 2017 - 2022
    High School for Applied Sciences
    I.I.S. Giordano Bruno, Medicina
    • Final grade: 100/100 cum laude.
    • Exchange semester at Merivale High School (Ottawa, 2021).
    • Participated in OPOMUN (Porto, 2020) and PORGMUN (Prague, 2022).

Extracurricular Education

  • 2024 - today
    Contaminazioni Ortogonali
    ELICSIR Foundation
    • One of the 20 third-year Italian STEM students selected to take part in Contaminazioni Ortogonali, a program aiming at educating the next generation of Italian computer scientists.
    • Awarded a 2000€ scholarship.
  • 2024
    Generative AI for Everyday Life and Academic Research
    Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study
    • Masterclass covering the technical, social and legal implications of LLMs, as well as the use of Generative AI in academic research.
  • 2023
    The 15th Asian Conference on Machine Learning
    ACML 2023
    • Attended the conference as an auditor, sponsored by Collegio Superiore (University of Bologna).
  • 2023
    Topics in Modern Machine Learning
    Machine Learning Genoa Center, University of Genoa
    • Attended and passed the final examination of the summer school, which covered topics such as fairness, sketching, regularization, and reinforcement learning.

Experience

  • 2024 - today
    AI Developer
    UniBo Motorsport - Driverless Division
    • I have joined the official racing team of the University of Bologna, where I am working on developing systems for autonomous driving based on machine learning.
  • 2024
    Data Scientist Intern
    CRIF S.p.A.
    • For my curricular internship, I joined a Data Science team.
  • 2022 - 2024
    Independent Mobile Game Developer
    Sunside Games
    • Developed and published 5 mobile puzzle games on Google Play.
    • Total downloads: 14,000+.

Competitions

  • 2024
    Winner of Telmekom Challenge
    NOI Hackathon 2024
    • Collaborated in a 3-person team to develop Horus, a network scanner with a user-friendly graphical interface, enabling everyone to easily detect devices and vulnerabilities in their local networks.
    • Worked on product and UI design; integrated Llama 3.2 for summary generation and chat-based Q&A functionality.
    • The solution was awarded a 1000€ prize by Telmekom.
  • 2024
    Winner of CRIF Challenge
    IFAB 4 Next Generation Talents Challenge 2024
    • Collaborated in a 5-person team to develop a PoC for SustainSME, a website utilizing Eurostat data, EU regulations, and LLMs to make ESG information easily accessible to SMEs, increasing their awareness of the topic.
    • The work was awarded a 1000€ prize by CRIF S.p.A.
  • 2018 & 2022
    National Finals of Bocconi Mathematical Games
    Bocconi University
    • Top 35 and top 55 among all participants in Italy.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    First Ascent Italy
    Bending Spoons
    • Selected by Bending Spoons as one of top-20 Italy’s finest Computer Science & Software Engineering students to take part in First Ascent Italy 2024, an exclusive, 4-day, all-expenses-paid retreat.
  • 2023
    Study award
    University of Bologna
    • Awarded to the 2 top students (out of ~150) of the Computer Science degree.

Certificates

  • 2024
    Machine Learning Specialization
    DeepLearning.AI
  • 2022
    Certificate in Advanced English, Level C2
    Cambridge Assessment English

Communities

  • 2024 - today
    Mentee
    Lead The Future
    • Lead The Future is a non-profit mentoriship organization empowering top-performing STEM students to achieve their goals and contribute to their communities by giving them one-on-one guidance from high-impact mentors.
    • Acceptance rate: < 15%.
  • 2024 - today
    Contributor
    CartaBinaria, University of Bologna
    • CartaBinaria is a hub for students of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna.
    • I have started the Opportunities page, which gathers interesting initiatives in Computer Science for students.

Languages

Italian Native speaker
English Fluent (Level C2, Cambridge Assessment English)
French Beginner