Riccardo Massidda
+39 351 866 9661
r.massidda@studenti.unipi.it rmassidda.it
Via Gherardi del Testa 19 Livorno, LI, Italy
Education
Università di Pisa November 2021 - ongoing
PhD in Computer Science
Università di Pisa July 2021
Master’s Degree in Computer Science (AI curriculum) 110/110 with honors Existing techniques can analyze the correlation between units in convolutional neural net- works for image classification and visual concepts in the input. Building on previous methods and formalizing visual concepts in the context of a referential theory of meaning, this work in- troduces and validates two metrics to estimate semantic alignment. Furthermore, by relating visual concepts to WordNet synsets, the proposed approach improves the alignment qual- ity. Consequently, semantic alignment enables the clustering of units that are architecturally connected and semantically coherent.
Università di Pisa May 2019
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science 110/110 with honors
The thesis describes a probabilistic model for the simulation of genomic variants and next- generation sequencing (NGS) reads. Both research and development have been fulfilled during an internship at IIT-CNR.
Experiences
Università di Pisa October - December 2020
Tutor for undergraduate students
During weekly meetings, I assisted computer science undergraduate students by answering their theoretical questions and aiding them with their assignments.
Net7 June - July 2019
Frontend Developer
Development of an Angular library and design of GraphQL middleware solutions.
National Research Council (CNR) February - June 2019
Research internship
During the internship, I actively contributed to a bioinformatic research project within the Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT).
SISAM Group September 2015 - January 2016
Full-stack developer
Design and implementation of a web application used to track small or medium-sized container terminals.
Italian Olympiad in Informatics September 2014 National round participant
The competition tests high school students for their problem-solving skills in a programming setting. The success in different local rounds determines the participation in the national phase.
Skills
I am a Python developer with thorough knowledge and experience with scientific, deep learning and NLP frameworks such as NumPy, PyTorch, NLTK, SpaCy, TensorFlow and Matplotlib.
I am also competent with C/C++languages in the context of parallel processing.
I am an experienced GNU/Linux user, highly familiar with shell scripting, Git version control, LATEX and the UNIX toolkit.
I speak Italian as my mother tongue, and I am a fluent English speaker in technical and social contexts.
Publications
Geraci, Filippo, Riccardo Massidda, and Nadia Pisanti. “Technology and Species Independent Sim- ulation of Sequencing Data and Genomic Variants.” In 2019 Ieee 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (Bibe), 138–45. IEEE, 2019.
Massidda, Riccardo. “Rmassidda @ DaDoEval: Document Dating Using Sentence Embeddings at EVALITA 2020.” In Proceedings of Seventh Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Pro- cessing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (Evalita 2020), edited by Valerio Basile, Danilo Croce, Maria Di Maro, and Lucia C. Passaro, 6. Online: CEUR-WS.org, 2020.
