👋 Hello there, I’m Francesco!
About me
I’m a Ph.D. student in AI and Educational Technologies at the University of Cagliari, specializing in Artificial Intelligence for Educational Technologies. My research lies at the intersection of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Information Retrieval, and NLP, with a particular focus on confidentiality-preserving mechanisms.
I’m passionate about building scalable, transparent AI systems that bring real impact in educational settings — bridging the gap between research and real-world learning environments.
Education
Ph.D. in Teaching & Learning Sciences – AI & Educational Technologies
UniCa – University of Cagliari · Cagliari, Italy 🇮🇹
2025 – Ongoing
Research: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Educational Innovation
M.Sc. in Applied Artificial Intelligence
University of Cagliari · Cagliari, Italy 🇮🇹
2023 – 2025
Thesis: “RetrievEM: Confidentiality-Preserving RAG via Expectation–Maximization”
B.Sc. in Computer Science
University of Cagliari · Cagliari, Italy 🇮🇹
2020 – 2023
Thesis: Development of a web application for blood donation management
Current Work
RetrievEM
Ongoing research
I’m developing a RAG framework that integrates an EM algorithm to enable retrieval under confidentiality constraints.