Curriculum Vitae

Current position

Software Engineer at Google Research, Zürich, since 2019.

Working (mostly) on JPEG XL, a new image compression format.

Random projects

I wrote very fast PNG and JXL encoders. Slides about those encoders, with links to code on GitHub, can be found here.

Education

PhD in Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa (2017-2021) Compression Techniques for Large Graphs: Theory and Practice (pdf, slides).

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (2015-2017)
A new algorithmic framework for enumerating commutable set properties (pdf, slides).

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (2012-2015)
Ricerca veloce di pattern comuni a due grafi (pdf, slides).

Awards

• 10th place at the AliBaBa Global Scheduling Competition.
• Winner of the First Reply Code Challenge.
• 81st place at the Google Distributed Code Jam Round 2
• 14th place at the Google Hash Code team competition.
• Silver medal at the International Olympiads in Informatics.
• Honourable mention at the Romanian Master in Mathematics.
• Gold medal at the national Olympiads in Physics.
• Gold medal at the national Olympiads in Mathematics.
• First place at the national-level competition “Gara di Modellizzazione Matematica”.
• Bronze medal at the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad.

Publications

See my Google Scholar page.