@matteodefra

PhD student in Computer Science at University of Geneva. Feel free to reach me out and have a look at my Github and LinkedIn page!

  1. Education
  2. Experience

Education

PhD Computer Science

University of Geneva

Oct. 2023 – ongoing

MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

University of Pisa

Sep. 2020 – Feb. 2023

BSc Computer Science

University of Pisa

Sep. 2017 – Jul. 2020

Experience

Teaching Assistant

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Oct. 2023 – ongoing
  • Teaching assistant during PhD studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland

  • Exercises classes for the course "Calcolability and Complexity" of the B.Sc. in Computer Science


Quantum Research Intern

PASQAL, Massy

Mar. 2023 – Oct. 2023
  • Internship at PASQAL, quantum scale-up located in the Paris area

  • Development of novel register design strategies to represent QUBO problems on the neutral-atom QPU

  • Implementation of an hybrid classical-quantum column generation solution for optimization problems


Research Intern

EdF R&D, Paris-Saclay

Sep. 2022 – Feb. 2023
  • Internship at the EdF Lab Paris-Saclay, in the OSIRIS (Optimisation Simulation Risques et Statistiques) departement

  • The aim of the internship is to develop my Master's thesis side by side with expert researchers in the Operations Research field

  • Theoretical framework for the parallelization of multiple solvers based on the Bundle Method approach and practical implementation and testing on the Unit Commitment problem


Research Fellow

University of Pisa

Apr. 2022 – Aug. 2022
  • Been awarded of a scolarship in the context of a national project funded by the Ministry of Justice entitled "Giustizia Agile"

  • The aim of the project is to bring ICT innovations and digitalization into national law courts


Teaching Assistant

University of Pisa

Sep. 2021 – Dec. 2021
  • Teaching assistant for the lectures of ”Fundamentals of Computer Science” course of the BSc in Computer Science

  • Providing students the basics of Computer Science, set operation, combinatorics and graph theory


Teaching Assistant

University of Pisa

Apr. 2021 – Jul. 2021
  • Teaching assistant for the lectures of ”Mobile Application Development” course of the BSc in Computer Science

  • Created a simple application to let the students familiarize with Android development tools and correct implementation patterns

  • Providing office hours for projects discussion


Teaching Assistant

University of Pisa

Sep. 2020 – Dec. 2020
  • Teaching assistant for the lectures of ”Fundamentals of Computer Science” course of the BSc in Computer Science

  • Providing students the basics of Computer Science, set operation, combinatorics and graph theory


Research Intern

University of Pisa

Mar. 2020 – Lug. 2020
  • BSc thesis work

  • Developed a Machine Learning framework for the classification of topics on StackOverflow

  • Exploited the different preprocessing techniques to extract and filter tokens from question and answers

  • Exploited the famous Word2Vec model

  • Tested classic statistical Machine Learning method, to NLP attention models


Mobile App Developer

Omega Travel

Sep. 2019 – Mar. 2020
  • 6 months of part-time work

  • Developed a mobile application for the travel agency ”Omega Travel”

  • Applied software engineering approach: development of use cases, architecture design and implementation

  • Exploited the Flutter framework and Dart language