Students

Clara Banti

2021-2022

Graduated in Public Relations (now called Business Communication), I was lucky enough to find myself in the world of digital agencies. Here, after a few years in the press office where I had to understand (and tell laymans) how the websites development projects and digital marketing plans worked, I moved on and started being in charge of the consultancy for clients’ digital marketing program definition and the management of development projects. It was the world of performance and optimization, the time for results to constantly track in e-commerce and the era of CRM customizations. All this could effectively happen only when a correct collection and manipulation of data is done. That’s why my interests shifted from marketing to data. Areas of interest for me in data analysis are market research, users’ behaviors analysis, platform performance analysis (not just e-commerce) and how to make data useful knowledge.

Davide Bottinelli

2021-2022

Born in 1996 in Milan, Italy. My educational background was purely humanistic: I attended classical high school and later graduated in philosophy, first in a bachelor's degree and then in a master's degree. My main interests during my undergraduate years were in the areas of propositional logic, theory of knowledge and philosophy of science. In the research phase for my master's thesis, I had the opportunity to address the issues of the human mind-artificial intelligence relationship and how computational thinking works. This prompted me to approach the world of programming and the study of the latest technologies for extracting information from big data streams. The Master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining has been a conceptually challenging course of study for me and has given me the opportunity to look into such an exciting and innovative field of work as data science.

Francesco Cappellini

2021-2022

I was born in Tuscany in 1995. I graduated bachelor in law of enterprises (firms) and i graduated master in communication of enterprise (also deeply focused on HR development). Because of my deep interest in AI and in big data, i enrolled in "big data analytics and social mining" in order to improve my skills and also to widen my knowledge. I think that this is an excellent opportunity for me for my professional growth.

Leonardo Catalano

2021-2022

I took my bachelor degree in Philosophy with a thesis in Philosphy of Language, I then took a Master degree in Logic at the University of Florence. I have always been interested in the IT world and attending to this Master allowed me to complement my theoretical formation with a pratical one. My main interest in Data Science is NLP.

Alessandro Ciocchetti

2021-2022

Hello! I was born in Urbino in 1995 and I have lived in Pesaro until I started my University studies in Industrial Engineering and Management in Bologna. I love blues, rock, jazz, classical music, I am a good harmonica player, I love a lot of books and movies. Then, since I like arts, I like also programming. I believe Art can be expressed today through cinema and IT... sadly, literature and music already had their times and it's always more difficult to create something new there. I know it's a strange idea, but I am also sure we can't have a future without arts. We are just moving and adapting towards something new and more potentially "discoverable". Maybe in the next centuries humanity will recognize some great IT developers/digital designers/ideators of these times as great artists!

Francesco Demo

2021-2022

I'm Francesco Demo, I'm 26 and I'm from Veneto. I have a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a master's degree in Management, both from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. I worked for a strategic consulting firm in Milan, developing projects with one of the main Italian banking groups. In this context, I began to discover the world of the data analysis and the data science and, therefore, I began to look for information about it. I decided to enrol in this master to shift my career path to one of the professions that will be increasingly in demand in the coming years and to differentiate myself from most common economics students with regards to hard skills. In my free time I love to read, take long walks and travel.

Ayoub EL Maataoui

2021-2022

Born in Rabat -Morocco, I obtained a bachelor degree in Economics and Management at the MED5 Rabat University, a master's degree in Business Administration at the University of Sassari. I was always interested in the world of Business intelligence and the application of IT tools in the world of Marketing. I enrolled in this Master in order to acquire the necessary knowledge in the field of Data Science and Big data to become a Marketing Data Scientist

Agnese Fazio

2021-2022

I have a multidisciplinary work and educational background. I received my master's degree in Management, with a specialization in quantitative methods for business management, from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. I have worked at multinational companies in both the insurance and medical sectors. I chose to attend this master's program to pursue a new career path.

Roberta Fischetti

2021-2022

I am Roberta, originally from a small town in the province of Avellino, which I soon left for University studies. I have a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics, a Master's in Digital Humanities and anpther Master's in Film Editing, achieved in the UK. My dream, in fact, was to work in the Film Industry as an editor. However, I realized that reaching that goal meant giving up meaningful relationships, besides a healthy and balanced life. Furthermore, the opportunities for growth in the field of video editing were very limited, especially following the pandemic. Therefore, I decided to explore new horizons, including the world of Data Science. The things that most fascinate me about this world are its many facets and its many applications to different fields. My new goal, therefore, is to exploit the knowledge extracted from data in order to contribute to the common good.

Luca Fusar Imperatore

2021-2022

I was born in Lodi in 1985. Always curious about the possible connections between different fields of knowledge, I pursued my studies first in Management for Arts & Culture, then in Economic and Social Sciences, both at Bocconi University in Milan. Later, throughout nine years of work within the retail department of a major oil company, my analytical inclination and flexibility found application in a vast array of tasks ranging from preparing dossiers for government authorities to building what-if models in Excel. At the same time, living in Rome enabled me to satisfy my penchant for arts & history, lately also as an amateur volunteer guide. Over time, I have discovered a growing interest in data management and the IT world broadly intended. As a consequence, I finally decided to enroll in the ”SoBigData” Master’s course, with the aim of broadening my horizons and upgrading my skills in the face of the increasing complexity of our age.

Maria Iacono

2021-2022

After my Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, fascinated by the world of Computational Linguistics, I enrolled in a course in "Language Technologies" at the Master's Degree program in Digital Humanities in Pisa. Thanks to the studies I attended, I was able to develop multidisciplinary skills, acquiring on the one hand a background in the humanities, and on the other hand knowledge of computer tools relevant to the processing of linguistic and other data. For the past three years, I have worked in an Artificial Intelligence startup as a Data Manager, an experience that introduced me to the fascinating world of data. Driven by curiosity to develop greater skills in the field of Data Science, I decided to enroll in the Master in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining.

Giulia Luongo

2021-2022

My name is Giulia Luongo, I graduated in 2014 in Management Engineering. Until December 2021 I worked in a Bergamo company in the automotive sector. Part of my job was to do data analysis and over the years I realized that this was the part that I was most passionate about. Thanks to the Master SoBigData I was able to specialize in this area.

Gwydyon Marchelli

2021-2022

I got a Bachelor degree in Chemistry and Chemical Technologies and a Master degree in Chemistry at the University of Turin. In the last years I have been a researcher in the field of computational chemistry under the Horizon2020 project SOCRATES at the University of Bonn, Germany, where I got my PhD in Chemistry. During my work, I encountered the challenge to organize and describe large amount of data, and took quite some interest in it; since the focus of my studies had never been on this topic, I decided to enroll in this Master to complete my training on Big Data and Data Mining. In my spare time I like cooking, playing board and role-play games, and climbing.

Gabriele Ottaviani

2021-2022

I earned a bachelor's degree in physics in Rome, with a specialization in statistical mechanics. During my master's degree I had the opportunity to delve into concepts such as Neural Networks, Stochastic Processes and Complex Systems, acquiring theoretical knowledge underlying many ML algorithms. Passionate about programming and quantitative analysis, I found in Data Science the meeting point between these two worlds, and I decided to enroll in this master in Big Data to follow my dream of working in this field. In my spare time, I like to go hiking in the mountains.

Jorge Eduardo Shortrede

2021-2022

I’m an experienced molecular biologist with a Ph.D. in Translational and clinical science. I’m doing a second level master in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining, where I learned to work with python, R and SQL server among others. I have 9 years of experience in life science research and 1 year in industry. Moreover, I’m a proactive, self-motivated, and collaborative person with willingness to learn and get out from the comfort zone. Likewise, I consider myself brought to teamwork. I speak fluently Spanish, English, and Italian. Furthermore, I have 11 publications on indexed international journals. I acquired good scientific data communication skills through the participation to 13 congresses of international societies. I currently work in the Imaging-Lab at the Department of Translational Research in the University of Pisa. As a hobby, I love climbing and hiking.

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