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Andrea Cacioppo

Curriculum vitae - July 12 2025

Email andrea.cacioppo@uniroma1.it
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I am a physicist with 5+ years of experience in machine learning research and development. Currently finishing my PhD in physics, I am working on quantum computing, machine learning and their intersection. I am also consulting companies, developing custom models or optimizing existing ones.

Education

Nov 2022 - May 2026 (expected)

PhD in Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Topics: physics-inspired algorithms, quantum computing, machine learning and quantum machine learning

Group: Fisica AI&QC group

Supervisors: Stefano Giagu, Fabio Sciarrino

Oct 2016 - May 2020

M.Sc. in Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Thesis: “Deep learning for the parameter estimation of tight-binding Hamiltonians”

Supervisors: Stefano Giagu, Stefan Bauer

Grade: 109/110

Sept 2013 - Oct 2018

B.Sc. in Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Thesis: “Hidden Markov model”

Supervisor : Luciano Pietronero

Grade: 110/110 with honors

Work experience

Jan 2022 - pres.

ML Consulting, Individual clients, Italy

Topics: training NNs to solve PDEs in finance - implementation of diffusion models - training NNs on incomplete datasets - invoice reconciliation using an online LLM

Nov 2024 - Mar. 2025

ML Consulting, Grid +, Rome, Italy

Topic: Automatic analysis of legal documents and anomaly detection

Jan 2022 - Nov 2024

Tutoring, Individual clients, Italy

Topics: mathematics, physics and computer science for university students

Sep 2023 - Nov 2023

ML Consulting, Hypercube SA, Lugano, Switzerland

Topic: application of ML techniques to the detection of time series anomalies

Dec 2022 - Aug 2023

ML Consulting, Primis Group SRL, Milan, Italy

Tasks: determine best ML solutions tailored to LiDAR and satellite data, design of an anomaly detection algorithm for LiDAR data (contract of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana SPA)

Nov 2020 - Nov 2021

Tutoring, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Task: assisting students of the "Quantum networking" class

Sep 2019 - Oct 2020

Research Internship, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany

Topics: Deep learning for estimating tight-binding Hamiltonians, quantum machine learning models and their connection with kernel methods

Awards and grants

Nov 2023 - Nov 2024

Research grant, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

"Development of quantum machine learning algorithms" - 1000 €

Oct 2016

Excellence program for honor students, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Talks

Oct 2024

Quantum Computing @ INFN, Padova, Italy, Talk

"Quantum diffusion models for quantum data learning"

Oct 2024

38° cycle PhD seminar, Rome, Italy, Talk

"Quantum machine learning and physics-informed deep learning algorithms"

Apr 2024

EuCAIFCon2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Flash Talk

"Quantum diffusion models"

Nov 2023

QAIXIAQ2023 Workshop, Rome, Italy, Talk

"Quantum diffusion models using parameterized quantum circuits for data denoising"

July 2021

ISIT, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Talk

"Compound channel capacities under energy constraints and application"

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