About

Hi! I’m Tommaso, a Ph.D. Student at the University of Pavia, Italy. Biomedical Engineer and AI enthusiast, I’m currently researching healthcare-related NLP solutions.

Outside of work, I like to spend my free time reading books, sipping scorching hot tea, and playing weird board games.

My work and research

During my Ph.D. I focused on Large Language Models (LLMs) and how to use them to retrieve structured clinical information from free-text medical notes, employing different strategies based on the transformer architecture, the cornerstone of my reasearch activity. Being based in Italy, I often work on Italian texts and under low data regimes in general, which makes this research particularly challenging but also gives me additional motivation by helping to reduce the entry barrier for local medical institutions.

As a side track, I also explored the field of Explainable AI (XAI) in healthcare for both structured and unstructured data.

My work is mostly carried out at the Biomedical Informatics Lab “Mario Stefanelli” (BMI) and the ICS Maugeri hospital, specialised in post-acute rehabilitation treatments.

My background

I graduated in Biomedical Engineering (MSc) in Pavia in 2019, with a thesis on the usage of dutch word embeddings for the early detection of colorectal cancer. My Master’s thesis is the result of a 6-months internship in the Netherlands at the Amsterdam’s Universitair Medische Centra (UMC), where I remained as a researcher until the covid outbreak in early 2020. Moved back in Pavia, I embark on the Ph.D journey to pursue my interest in NLP, while working as a scientific consultant for Biomeris Srl.