I am the Head of Machine Learning at
Proxima, where
we are expanding the frontier of drug discovery by making protein interactions programmable
through generative AI.
Previously, I led the Generative Models team at
Isomorphic Labs and I worked on large-scale synthetic
data generation and multimodal LLMs at Mistral AI.
Before moving to industry, I completed my PhD at the
Swiss AI Lab IDSIA,
where I researched graph neural networks and their applications to dynamical systems and
biology. I then worked as a researcher at
EPFL, focusing on
neural fields and generative models for protein design.
I am also the creator of
Spektral,
the first open-source library for geometric deep learning in TensorFlow/Keras. Beyond
research, I have hosted a
podcast
on AI in Italian, I am deeply fascinated by self-organizing systems and emergence, and I enjoy
cooking and hiking in the Alps.
News
I will be attending ICML 2026 in Seoul. Looking forward to connecting with the AIxBio community, please reach out if you want to catch up!
I am delighted to continue mentoring in 2026 for the MIO initiative by Talented Italians in the UK (even though I am no longer an Italian in the UK).
After three incredible years leading the Generative Models team at Isomorphic Labs, I have decided to move onwards and take on a new challenge. I am deeply grateful to everyone who has been a part of this mind-blowing journey, and particularly to Max Jaderberg and the Generative Models team for their work and trust.
My team at IsoLabs is looking to hire an ML research scientist with a strong background in generative models (of the AF3 kind). Get in touch if you're interested!
Starting off 2025 with a huge career milestone at Iso: I was promoted to Staff Research Scientist!
I will be a mentor for the 2024 "Mentoring for International Opportunity" initiative by the association for Talented Italians in the UK.
I was happy to take part in the second episode of "In Conversation", a series that promotes the research we do at Isomorphic Labs.
I will be attending ICLR 2024 in Vienna. Looking forward to connecting with people!
After one amazing year at Isomorphic Labs, I have been promoted to Senior Research Scientist.
I was featured for the second time on Machine Learning Street Talk. This interview was shot at NeurIPS 2023 last year, where I presented our work on generalized implicit neural representations from my time at EPFL.
I'm thrilled to announce that I will be joining Isomorphic Labs (London, UK) to help reimagine the drug discovery process using AI. Exciting times ahead!
I will be Publicity Chair for the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (2023).
I had the absolute pleasure of chatting about cellular automata, emergence, life, graphs, and much more with the amazing Tim and Keith of Machine Learning Street Talk!
In collaboration with part of the team that I mentored at LOGML 2021, we have released a preprint on unsupervised embedding of heterophilous graphs.
I have become a member of the ELLIS Society, one of the leading non-profit organizations for promoting European AI.
