CV
General Information
| Full Name | Mattia Ferrarini |
| info@mattiaferrarini.com | |
| Location | Bologna, Italy |
Education
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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.
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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.
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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
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2022 - 2024 Independent Mobile Game Developer
Sunside Games - Developed and published 5 mobile puzzle games on Google Play.
- Total downloads: 15,000+.
Competitions
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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.
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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.
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2018 & 2022 National Finals of Bocconi Mathematical Games
Bocconi University - Top 35 and top 55 among all participants in Italy.
Honors and Awards
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2025 Ermenegildo Zegna Founder's Scholarship
Zegna Foundation - Scholarship to support my master's studies at EPFL.
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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.
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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.
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2023 Study award
University of Bologna - Awarded to the 2 top students (out of ~150) of the Computer Science degree.
Communities
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 |