I am a PhD researcher in the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London where - as a member of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI and Music - I am working on Audio Effects Modelling and Neural Synthesis of Sound Effects under the supervision of Joshua Reiss.

I was research assistant in the Audio Experience Design Lab at Imperial College London, working with Lorenzo Picinali on 3D audio and headphones acoustics.

I have a past as guitar amplifiers designer and project engineer for Blackstar Amps, where I had fun with high-voltage valve amps, low-voltage amps and pedals, as well as helping to model analogue circuits.

Back in Italy, I used to design and hand-build overdrive and distortion pedals as Mad Hatter Stompboxes

I hold a BEng in Computer Engineering and an MEng in Electronic Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome and an MSc in Sound and Music Computing from Queen Mary University of London.


Experience

Sony CSL - Paris

Research Intern

Deep Learning for Audio Signal Processing

April 2024 - July 2024

Queen Mary University of London

Postodoctoral Researcher

Deep Learning for Music Source Separation - in collaboration with AudioStrip

Jan 2024 - April 2024

Sony - Tokyo

Research Intern

Deep Learning for Generative Audio

Sep 2023 - Dec 2024

Imperial College London

Research Assistant

Binaural Audio Rendering. Interactive Soundscapes.

Nov 2017 - Jan 2021

Blackstar Amplification

Electronic Engineer and Project Engineer

Amps and Effects Design. Project Management.

Mar 2014 - Nov 2017

Mad Hatter Stompboxes

Founder | Owner | Electronic Engineer

Guitar Pedal Effects Design. Full Product Development.

Jan 2009 - Mar 2014


Education

Queen Mary University of London

PhD

Artificial Intelligence and Music

Queen Mary University of London

Master of Science

Sound and Music Computing

Sapienza University of Rome

Master of Engineering

Electronics Engineering

Sapienza University of Rome

Bachelor Degree

Computer Science


Publications

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019


Awards

Best Student Paper Award - AES Convention 2022

for "Reverse Engineering Memoryless Distortion Effects with Differentiable Waveshapers"

Best Reviewer Award - DAFx 2021
UKRI Scholarship - Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM) - 2019
Total Guitar Award

for Blackstar Artist Series amplifiers

Guitarist Choice Award

for Blackstar Artist Series amplifiers

Academic Service

Reviewer

International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) - 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024

EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing - 2022, 2023, 2024

IEEE Signal Processing Letters - 2023