cv
Basics
| Name | Nicola Lorenzon |
| Label | Master's Student in Computer Science |
| 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 |