CV
General Information
Full Name | Mattia Ferrarini |
mattiaferrarini22@gmail.com | |
Residency | Bologna, Italy |
Education
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2022 - today BSc Computer Science
University of Bologna - Current GPA: 30.0/30.0
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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: 29.75/30.0
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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).
- Participated in OPOMUN (Porto, 2020) and PORGMUN (Prague, 2022).
Extracurricular Education
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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.
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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.
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2023 The 15th Asian Conference on Machine Learning
ACML 2023 - Attended the conference as an auditor, sponsored by Collegio Superiore (University of Bologna).
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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
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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.
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2024 Data Scientist Intern
CRIF S.p.A. - For my curricular internship, I joined a Data Science team.
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2022 - 2024 Independent Mobile Game Developer
Sunside Games - Developed and published 5 mobile puzzle games on Google Play.
- Total downloads: 14,000+.
Competitions
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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2023 Study award
University of Bologna - Awarded to the 2 top students (out of ~150) of the Computer Science degree.
Certificates
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2024 Machine Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI -
2022 Certificate in Advanced English, Level C2
Cambridge Assessment English
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.
- Acceptance rate: < 15%.
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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 |