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Curriculum Vitæ

What have I done?

Personal information

Nationality: Italian

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Professional experience

November 2022 — current

Assegnista di ricerca (tipo b)

Centro di Sonologia Computazionale
Università di Padova
, Italy

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship investigating the development and role of entertainment video games as educational interventions.

  • 🌐 EduGames project: project website, research journal, and repository of all the material created during the project.
  • 👾 Cash or Card?: and educational puzzle-simulation video games on the costs and opportunities of cash vs electronic payments in everyday life.

July 2021 — September 2021

Visiting Fellow

Centro di Sonologia Computazionale
Università di Padova
, Italy

Research and development for ArTracker, an IoT platform for tracking and monitoring artworks and cultural heritage.

January 2016 — October 2022

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Department of Computer Science and Technology
University of Cambridge
, UK

Research and development for Isaac Computer Science (now Ada Computer Science) and Isaac Physics.

November 2016 — present

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Robinson College
University of Cambridge
, UK

Teaching Supervisor, Computer Science tripos

2006 — present

Freelance developer (iOS, Android, web)

  • Web sites, mostly for clients in the classical music industry
  • Mobile applications, small- to mid-sized applications ranging from exhibition guides to citizen engagement, from interactive books to casual games

Some technologies: iOS (Swift, Objective-C), Android (Java, Kotlin), Cinder (C++), Processing, Arduino, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, React

Education

April 2012 — February 2016

supervisors: Dr Robin Laney, Mr Chris Dobbyn

December 2006 — June 2010

Laurea Magistrale (MSc) in Computer Science and Engineering

advisor: Prof. Giovanni De Poli

October 2008 — March 2009

Erasmus, thesis research and development work on the Reactable

Music Technology Group

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES

supervisor: Dr Sergi Jordà

October 2002 — December 2006

Laurea (BSc) in Computer Science and Engineering

Università di Padova, IT

📘 Schematizzazione di uno scheduler ciclico statico per applicazioni embedded in ambiente Windows CE

advisor: Dr Michele Moro

Grants and awards

July 2022

MSCA 2021 Individual Fellowship (EduGames)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Commission

An investigation into the role of entertainment video games in education. I also have a project website.

May 2022

MSCA 2021 Seal of Excellence

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Commission

The Seal of Excellence is awarded to applications that rank more than 85% and but cannot be funded in the first instance due to budget constraints. My application ranked 92.8% with a funding threshold of 93.6% and was subsequently funded from the reserve list.

July 2021

ArTracker Visiting Fellowship

Supported by Regione del Veneto, POR FSE 2014-2020, project number 2105-0051-1463-2019.

April 2015

Full-time Research studentship (PhD) extension

Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology (MCT)

Teaching

Courses

January 2019 — March 2019

Teaching Assistant at Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge, UK

Course: Digital Signal Processing with Computer Music

October 2016 — present

Teaching Supervisor at Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge, UK

Courses:

October 2011 — November 2011

Full-time teacher at Istituto di Istruzione Superiore di Lonigo

Course: A035, Electrical Engineering and Applications

October 2002 — June 2010

Private tutor for high school and university students

Courses: Mathematics, Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical Engineering

Students

October 2019 — May 2020

Sam Williams, Clare College, University of Cambridge

A Drum Rhythm Processing System to complement Sonic Pi

Part II (3rd year) dissertation, CompSci Tripos

October 2018 — May 2019

Charles J. Y. Yoon, King's College, University of Cambridge

Musical Style Transfer using Neural Networks

Part II (3rd year) dissertation, CompSci Tripos

Publications

Refereed papers

Posters

Talks

  • Technologies and practices to “uncomplicate” music. CSMC, September 2017, The Open University, UK.
  • Qualitative Data Analysis. Workshop, ESSD-HCI seminar series, March 2015, The Open University, UK.
  • Music lessons on a tabletop. Invited seminar, 26 September 2014, Experimental Music Lab, Università di Trento, Italy.

Panels

  • Musical Creativity & HCI. CSMC, September 2017, The Open University, UK.

Magazine articles

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