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General Information

Full Name Matteo Silvestri
Place of Birth Rome, Italy
Languages Italian, English, Spanish

Experience

  • 2026 - present
    Research Traineeship
    European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Rome, Italy — Petroni Group
    • Working on AI agents for accelerating scientific discovery.

Education

  • 2024 - present
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
    • XL Cycle.
  • 2022 - 2024
    M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics for Data Science
    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
    • Thesis - A Comprehensive Study of Deep Learning Techniques for Data Augmentation.
  • 2024
    Erasmus+ Scholarship
    Universitè Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
    • Specialized Master in Data Science, Big Data.
  • 2018 - 2022
    B.Sc. in Mathematics
    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
    • Thesis - Dido's Relative Isoperimetric Problem.
  • 2021
    Erasmus+ Scholarship
    Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
    • Mathematics Department.

Awards

  • 2025
    Best paper award at the HCAI Workshop - ACM CIKM
    Human-Centric AI Workshop, XAIC
    • Awarded for the paper "Enhancing XAI Narratives through Multi-Narrative Refinement and Knowledge Distillation".