CV

General Information

Full Name Mattia Ferrarini
Email info@mattiaferrarini.com
Location Bologna, Italy

Education

  • 2022 - 2025
    BSc Computer Science
    University of Bologna
    • GPA: 29.96/30.00, top of the class (~150 students). Final grade: 110/110 cum laude.
  • 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: 29.80/30.00.
  • 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).

Experience

  • 2024
    Data Scientist Intern
    CRIF S.p.A.
    • Worked on Generative AI for banking.
  • 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
    • Developed 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.
  • 2024
    Winner of CRIF Challenge
    IFAB 4 Next Generation Talents Challenge 2024
    • Created a PoC of SustainSME, a website utilizing Eurostat data, EU regulations, and LLMs to make ESG information easily accessible to SMEs, increasing their awareness of the topic.
  • 2018 & 2022
    National Finals of Bocconi Mathematical Games
    Bocconi University
    • Top 35 and top 55 among all participants in Italy.

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    Ermenegildo Zegna Founder's Scholarship
    Zegna Foundation
    • Scholarship to support my master's studies at EPFL.
  • 2024
    Contaminazioni Ortogonali Scholarship
    ELICSIR Foundation
    • One of the 20 Italian STEM students selected to take part in Contaminazioni Ortogonali, a program aiming at educating the next generation of Italian computer scientists.
  • 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 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.

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.
  • 2024 - 2025
    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 on 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