I am a Research Fellow (academic rank in Italy: RTD-A) at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa since January 2023, where I am a member of the A³ Lab.

My research interests include compact data structures, data compression, and algorithm engineering, with a focus on the so-called learned data structures, that is, data structures that exploit machine learning tools to uncover new regularities in the input data and achieve significantly improved space-time trade-offs over traditional ones.

I obtained my PhD from the University of Pisa in February 2022 with a thesis on Learning-based compressed data structures that was awarded the Best PhD thesis in Theoretical Computer Science by the Italian Chapter of the EATCS. Before my current position, I was a postdoc (2022) and PhD student (2018–21) at the University of Pisa. I was a visiting researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2024) and at Harvard University (2020).

Results of my research, including my software libraries, have found applications in database systems, information retrieval systems, and bioinformatics tools. Furthermore, I was granted an Italian patent (owned by the University of Pisa).

My research is supported by the EU-funded projects SoBigData.it and SoBigData++. In the past, I was supported by the Multicriteria data structures project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.