CV

General Information

Full Name Mattia Ferrarini
Email info@mattiaferrarini.com
Location 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: 29.8/30.0
  • 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
    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: 15,000+.

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 2024
    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.
  • 2024 - 2025
    AI Developer
    UniBo Motorsport, University of Bologna
    • UniBo Motorsport is the official racing team of the University of Bologna. I joined the Driverless division where I worked on developing software for autonomous driving based on Machine Learning. I mostly worked to develop a system for data collection in ROS.

Volounteering

  • 2025
    Teacher
    I.I.S. Giordano Bruno, Medicina
    • Held three lectures (6 hours) on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Large Language Models at my former high school.

Languages

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