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Name Nicola Lorenzon
Label Master's Student in Computer Science
Email nicolalorenzon99@gmail.com
Phone (+39) 3420880058
Url https://onlynicoo.github.io
Summary Master's student in Computer Science (AI & Robotics) at the University of Padua, currently on exchange at ETH Zürich (Rycolab). Research focused on the expressiveness of transformer models and formal language theory.

Education

  • 2024.09 - 2025.02

    Zürich, Switzerland

    SEMP Exchange Student
    ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
    Natural Language Processing (Rycolab)
    • Master Thesis: Expressivity of In-Context Learning in Large Language Models, supervised by Prof. Ryan Cotterell
  • 2022.09 - 2025.12

    Padua, Italy

    MSc in Computer Engineering
    UniPD - University of Padua
    Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
    • Thesis: Expressivity of In-Context Learning in Large Language Models
  • 2018.09 - 2021.12

    Padua, Italy

    BSc in Computer Engineering
    UniPD - University of Padua
    Computer Engineering
    • Thesis: Loss Function for Image Segmentation

Work

  • 2025.02 - 2025.05

    Zürich, Switzerland

    Scientific Assistant Intern
    ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
    • Performed research in Natural Language Processing and Formal Language Theory, focusing on the expressivity and computational properties of neural networks and large language models.
    • Two submissions under review and one manuscript in preparation.
  • 2021.12 - 2022.10

    Milan, Italy

    Cloud Data Engineer - Business Intelligence Engineer
    Noovle S.p.A.
    • Led a team of five engineers to implement from scratch an ETL pipeline for a major Italian bank on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
    • Developed multiple Cloud Composer DAGs to orchestrate data flows and integrated a Python-based alert system for data quality monitoring.
    • Deployed Looker dashboards used daily for cost analysis and forecasting, enhancing decision-making efficiency for the client.
  • 2021.09 - 2021.12

    Milan, Italy

    Software Engineer Intern
    Social Thingum
    • Configured a MySQL database and deployed a complete e-commerce website using XAMPP.
    • Developed a binary classification model for food data using Python, improving data processing efficiency by 12%.
  • 2021.02 - 2021.07

    Sacile, Italy

    Full Time Teacher
    I.P.S.I.A. della Valentina - PNRI00602X
    • Taught Electrical and Electronic Science and Technologies to a class of 25 high school students, developing lesson plans and hands-on labs to facilitate practical learning.

Volunteer

  • 2025.01 - 2025.09
    Volunteer Developer
    Lead The Future
    Selected (1 of 10) by LTF to contribute as a volunteer to the development of a chatbot aimed at scaling their systems.
    • Python chatbot development

Projects

  • 2024.02 - 2025.03
    FoodSight
    Computer Vision system to monitor and predict food consumption and food waste in canteens. The project aims to promote sustainability, quality and customer satisfaction.
    • Won a €11.644 grant from the University of Padova
    • Python, OpenCV
  • 2023.01 - 2023.12
    RAG - UniPD Academic Assistant
    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system for answering students' questions about the Computer Engineering curriculum at UniPD. Dataset built by scraping the university website.
    • Python, HuggingFace
    • Model selection to optimize performance

Skills

Machine Learning & NLP
Transformer Models
Formal Language Theory
In-Context Learning
RAG
HuggingFace
Computer Vision
OpenCV
SHAP
Grad-CAM
Image Segmentation
Programming
Python
C++
SQL
ROS
Cloud & Data Engineering
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Composer
Looker
ETL Pipelines

Languages

Italian
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Interests

Research Interests
NNs Expressivity
Formal Language Theory
Personal Interests
Building Sound Systems
Digital Sound Processing