Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD in Computer Science
- Location: University of Pisa
- Period: 11/2022 - 04/2026
- Title: Knowledge in Robust and Lifelong Reinforcement Learning Agents
- Supervisors: Prof. Davide Bacciu, Prof. Vincenzo Lomonaco
- Themes: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning, Knowledge Representation, Compositionality, Safety
ESSAI & ACAI Summer School
- Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Period: 07/2023
- Description: European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence & Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence
MSc in Computer Science - AI Curriculum
- Location: University of Pisa
- Period: 09/2020 - 10/2022
- Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude
- Thesis Title: Introducing Unsupervised Skills in Continual Reinforcement Learning Agents
CyberChallengeIT hosted by CINI
- Location: University of Verona
- Period: 02/2020 - 06/2020
BSc in Computer Science
- Location: University of Verona
- Period: 09/2017 - 07/2020
- Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude
- Thesis Title: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Navigation

Visiting Researcher
- Location: University of Alberta, Canada
- Period: 03/2026 - PRESENT and 04/2025 - 09/2025
- Themes: Reinforcement Learning, Programmatic Policies, Program Synthesis with LLMs, Search Algorithms
- Supervisor: Prof. Levi Lelis
Research Collaboration
- Location: Aptus.AI, Italy
- Period: 08/2024 - 02/2025
- Topics: Large Language Models, document retrieval, and Q&A pipelines for Italian statutory laws
Teaching Assistant
- Location: University of Pisa
- Period: 09/2024 - 12/2024
- Course: Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals
Teaching Assistant
- Location: University of Pisa
- Period: 09/2023 - 12/2023
- Course: Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals
Teaching Assistant
- Location: University of Pisa
- Period: 02/2023 - 06/2023
- Course: Computer Architectures and Operating Systems
Autonomous Planning Engineer
- Location: E-Team Squadra Corse Pisa
- Period: 10/2022 - 06/2024
- Division: Driverless, AI & Software Development
University Internship
- Location: University of Verona
- Period: 11/2019 - 02/2020
- Topics: Reinforcement Learning environments and algorithm comparison
Tutoring
- Location: High school and university students
- Period: 2016 - PRESENT
- Subjects: Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics

Giacomo Aru, PhD in Artificial Intelligence, University of Pisa
- Period: 2025 - PRESENT
- Topics: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Graph Neural Networks, Uncertainty Estimation
Malio Li, PhD in Computer Science, University of Pisa
- Period: 2024 - PRESENT
- Topics: Causal Reinforcement Learning, Causal World Models, Option Learning
Giacomo Aru, MSc in Computer Science - AI Curriculum, University of Pisa
- Year: 2025
- Title: Uncertainty-Aware Safe Reinforcement Learning using Control Barrier Functions
Marco Petix, MSc in Computer Science - AI Curriculum, University of Pisa
- Year: 2025
- Title: Behaviour Characterization via pi-vectors in Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning
Alessandro Capurso, MSc in Computer Science - AI Curriculum, University of Pisa
- Year: 2024
- Title: Similarity-Based Policy Transfer for Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning
Giacomo Carfi, MSc in Computer Science - AI Curriculum, University of Pisa
- Year: 2024
- Title: Adaptively Combining Skill Embeddings for Reinforcement Learning Agents
Malio Li, MSc in Computer Science - AI Curriculum, University of Pisa
- Year: 2024
- Title: Solving multiple tasks simply using prior policies in Lifelong Reinforcement Learning
Alessandro Guerriero, BSc in Computer Science, University of Pisa
- Year: 2023
- Title: Search Algorithms as Skills for Reinforcement Learning agents

Research Grant, University of Pisa
- Year: 2025
- Amount: EUR 8,200
- Project: Development of compositional Reinforcement Learning models
Fully Funded PhD Scholarship, University of Pisa
- Year: 2022
- Description: Three-year scholarship funded by PNRR