Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Paris, France
2021

Ph.D. in Signal, Image, Automation and Robotics
Thesis: Neuro-Steered Music Source Separation
Supervisors: Slim Essid, Gaël Richard.
Keywords: Music source separation, Auditory attention decoding, Electroencephalography (EEG).

Politecnico di Torino

Torino, Italy
2018

M.Sc. in Bioengineering
Thesis: CNNs and Transfer Learning for metastasis segmentation in high resolution images
Supervisors: Elisa Ficarra, Santa Di Cataldo, Francesco Ponzio.
Keywords: Transfer Learning, Semantic Segmentation, Histopathological Images

University of Padova

Padova, Italy
2015

B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering
Thesis: A supervised learning approach for the robust detection ofheart beat in plethysmographic data
Supervisors: Enrico Grisan.
Keywords: Supervised Learning, Heart Beat Detection, Photoplethysmography (PPG)

Grants

• (2022 - 2024) Postdoc within ERC Advanced Grant, NEUME, Neuroplasticity and the Musical Experience
• (2018 - 2021) MSCA fellowship as part of the MIP-Frontiers European training network

Awards

• 2024, ARO travel grant, Association for Research in Otolaryngology ($750)
• 2023, Neuromorphic travel grant, Telluride Neuromorphic workshop travel grant ($3000)
• 2018, Main prize from Microsoft (“best use of AI technology”) at the Abbey Road Red Hackathon (2018)
• 2018, Abbey Road’s prize, Deezer’s Hacking Audio & Music Research (HAMR) Hackathon

Communication

• Du cerveau en capsule. Video pitch of my research realized by Institut Carnot Cognition
• The science behind music technology, an animated story. Conception, script and music coordination
• Blog articles on women in science, green AI, WiMIR and personal blog
• Blog posts on my scientific work, ADASP, MIP-frontiers and personal websites

Service

• Women in Music Information Retrieval (WiMIR), leading the editorial team
• Cognition and Natural Sensory Processing Initiative (CNSP) organization commitee

Reviewership

• International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing (TASLP)
• eLife, European Journal of Neuroscience
• various signal processing conferences such as WASPAA, ICASSP, INTERSPEECH

Languages

• Italian (Native)
• English (Fluent)
• French (Conversational)
• German (Conversational)
• Japanese (Beginner)

Operating Systems

• Windows
• Linux (Mint, Ubuntu)
• Sun Grid Engine (SGE), and SLURM

Programming

• Python, MATLAB
• Latex
• Java
• Assembly

IDE and Tools

• git, GitHub, VSCode
• Matlab, Simulink, and Labview
• Sonic Visualizer, and Audacity
• Office, Overleaf, and Beamer