About Me
From waiting tables too young to building at the intersection of AI and human potential.
B.A. + M.S. in CS @Harvard, making AI smarter @deepmind; prev. @emergence_capital, @citadel_securities.
2x Philosophy Olympiad gold medalist, taught ML, did a bunch of hackathons. From Italy, adopted by the US. Passionate about startups, game theory, human enhancement, and the great outdoors.
Experience
Associate Product Manager Intern
Technical Staff (Applied Research + Product), making Gemini smarter. Working on cutting-edge AI research and product development at one of the world's leading AI companies.
Investment Intern, B2B & AI
Actively engaged in the investment process. Listening to pitches, doing due diligence, discussing companies. My main goal is to learn from deeply analyzing both failures and successes to build something people really care about. Met a lot of brilliant people.
Winternship Fellow @ HRZ and Bain Capital Ventures
Full-time fellowship program in San Francisco, California, gaining exposure to venture capital operations and startup ecosystem analysis.
Investment Intern, University Team
Part-time investment role in Cambridge, Massachusetts, focusing on university-related investment opportunities and portfolio analysis.
Engineering
Built a lot around AI Agents, Digital Twins, Cyberattacks, loved every moment of it, learned a ton. Full-time engineering role in New York developing innovative AI-powered solutions.
Machine Learning Lecturer
Taught a full semester fellowship centered on Machine Learning to Harvard Students. Topics Covered: Neural Networks, CNNs + Computer Vision, RAG + Prompt Engineering, Transformers + Text Generation, Diffusion + MultiModal Generation, RL.
Product Fellow
Learned how to build great products from early employees and founders in the Pear portfolio (Doordash, Gusto...). Gained insights into product development and strategy in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Quant Researcher (Winter Quant Invitational Program)
Amazing experience, met a lot of smart people, understood that finance + machine learning can be interesting. Full-time quantitative research program in Miami, Florida.
Data and Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Hybrid internship in Milano, Lombardia, Italy, working on data engineering and machine learning solutions for the fintech payment platform.
Education
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science || Honors Degree
Harvard University
Activities and Societies: Dunster House; Machine Intelligence Community; AI Safety Community; Teaching Fellow of Entrepreneurship with Spencer Rascoff
Course 6: Cross Register
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Skills: Machine learning
MBA: Cross Register, Roberts Family Fellow & CORe
Harvard Business School
The Roberts Family Technology Innovation Fellowship selects up to 15 outstanding Harvard College students per grade with the technical, entrepreneurial, and leadership skills to launch innovative endeavors that address complex, interdisciplinary societal issues; Harvard Business School + College + School of Engineering
Media & Recognition
Probabilistic Thinking in Decision Making
TEDx talk exploring how probabilistic reasoning can improve our decision-making processes under uncertainty.
TEDx
Featured Speaker Address
Presidential speech addressing innovation and technology in education at a national conference.
Presidential Conference
Da San Gennaro Vesuviano agli USA: la storia di Giovanni D'Antonio
Feature article in Il Sole 24 Ore (largest Italian Newspaper) about the journey from a small Italian town to American universities.
Il Sole 24 Ore