About Me
I'm a 22-year-old Computer Science Master's student at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Catania and a member of the LIVE research group within the Image Processing Laboratory (IPLAB). My work is focused on Deep Learning and Computer Vision, with particular interest in Vision-Language Models for egocentric video understanding and in intelligent assistive systems designed to support users during complex procedural tasks.
Experience
Apr 2026 - Current
University of Catania - LIVE@IPLABResearch Scholar
Study and development of Multimodal Learning algorithms for procedural task assistance and mistake detection.
Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
Next Vision s.r.l.Student Researcher - Internship
Conducted research and designed multimodal LLM-based Computer Vision algorithms, with a focus on Object Anticipation tasks in Egocentric Vision.
Education
Current
University of CataniaMaster's Degree in Computer Science
Relevant courses: Deep Learning, Generative AI, Advanced Robotics, Computer Vision, Multimedia, Parallel Programming and GPU Computing for HPC.
Jul 2025
University of CataniaBachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Relevant courses: AI, Robotics, Social Media Data Analysis, Fundamentals of Data Analysis, ML.
Thesis title: Predicting Next-Active Objects with Vision Large Language Models in Egocentric Scenarios.
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
News
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July 2026
Archimede Prize for best B.Sc. graduate
Awarded the 22nd edition Archimede Prize (Premio Archimede) as the top Computer Science bachelor's graduate at UniCT, class of 2024-25.
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July 2026
Attending ICVSS 2026
Taking part in the 20th International Computer Vision Summer School, in Punta Sampieri, Sicily.
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May 2026
EgoInteract preprint released on arXiv
Synthetic Egocentric Videos Generation for Interaction Understanding and Anticipation, in collaboration with Meta Reality Labs.
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April 2026
Paper accepted at ICPR 2026
Leveraging Gaze and Set-of-Mark in VLLMs for Human-Object Interaction Anticipation from Egocentric Videos, the outcome of my bachelor thesis. I'll present it in Lyon in August.
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April 2026
Started a Research Scholarship at UniCT
On multimodal LLMs for procedural task assistance and mistake detection, within the LIVE@IPLAB group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
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July 2025
Graduated B.Sc. in Computer Science
With a thesis titled "Predicting Next-Active Objects with Vision Large Language Models in Egocentric Scenarios", supervised by Prof. Francesco Ragusa and Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella.
Publications
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2026
Leveraging Gaze and Set-of-Mark in VLLMs for Human-Object Interaction Anticipation from Egocentric Videos
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Accepted
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2026
EgoInteract: Synthetic Egocentric Videos Generation for Interaction Understanding and Anticipation
arXiv preprint 2605.18214 Under Review
Contact
I'm always glad to discuss research, collaborations, or new opportunities. Email is the best way to reach me, and I read every message.