ETH Zurich2025 – Present
Master of Science in Cyber Security · Zurich, Switzerland
Current GPA: 5.71.
A bit more about me
Computer science graduate student with proven experience in vulnerability assessment and exploitation. Working at the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Education
Alma Mater Studiorum — Università di Bologna2022 – 2025
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering · Cesena, Italy
Exit grade “110 e Lode” (summa cum laude) · Final GPA: 29.81/30.
Liceo Scientifico “Giordano Bruno”2017 – 2022
Diploma di Liceo Scientifico, opzione “Scienze Applicate” · Medicina, Italy
Exit grade “100 e Lode” (summa cum laude).
Experience
CyberChallenge.IT2025
Participant in national cybersecurity program · Bologna – Turin, Italy
Selected as one of the six members of Team Unibo for the national finals, following intensive training in cryptography, reverse engineering, binary exploitation, and web security.
University of Bologna2022 – 2025
Undergraduate projects · Cesena, Italy
Delivered over 15 projects ranging from pure software to virtual and cyber-physical systems, using Python, Java, C/C++, and web technologies.
Projects
Network Covert Channels2025
Bachelor’s thesis · Università di Bologna
“Hiding in Plain Sight: An Operational Introduction to Network Covert Channels”. Built a Dockerised testbed for the in vitro analysis of covert channel techniques.
Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification2026
Computational Intelligence Lab · ETH Zurich
Led a three-person team fine-tuning XLM-RoBERTa-large with LoRA adapters, adding a cross-lingual consistency loss over machine-translated pairs and language-routed adapters.
Focus Guardian2026
Firefox extension, Mozilla track · Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon
Led implementation of a Firefox extension built against the then newly released Harbor Web Agents API, blurring page content unrelated to a goal the user states in natural language.
Certifications & Awards
2026
Lead the Future — Selected MenteeItalian talent mentorship programme.
2025
CyberChallenge.IT — Bronze Medal (Team Unibo)National finals against 40 university teams across Italy.
2025
CyberChallenge.IT — Best Attack Award (Team Unibo)Recognized offensive performance, exploiting vulnerabilities with speed and precision.
2024
IELTS CertificateOverall Band 8.0 (C1–C2).
Skills & Interests
Programming
Python, Go, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, PHP, Bash, SQL
Security tools
Wireshark, Burp Suite, Ghidra, IDA, GDB, Tamarin, pwntools
Interests
Cryptography, privacy, anonymity, reverse engineering, web application security, AI security, LLMs
Languages
Italian (native), English (C1–C2)