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MSc Artificial Intelligence
Verona, Italy
Jacopo Parretti

AI Engineer & Developer

I build intelligent systems and elegant software at the intersection of research and engineering.

Who I am

About Me

MSc Artificial Intelligence

I came to computer science through biology. My bachelor's in Bioinformatics at the University of Verona taught me to think algorithmically about messy, high-dimensional data — a foundation that maps cleanly onto modern machine learning. I'm now pursuing an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, with research interests centred on language models and deep learning.

I work across the full spectrum of machine learning: information retrieval, supervised classification, language model fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning. I care about rigour — understanding not just what works, but why — and about writing code that survives contact with reality.

Alongside my studies I work as a data analyst, building dashboards and reporting pipelines for retail operations. I also contribute to open-source projects on GitHub, mostly in the ML and developer tooling space.

Currently

MSc Artificial Intelligence·Università di Verona
Data Analyst·JD Sports & Fashion
Open-Source Contributor·GitHub
Large Language ModelsBioinformaticsReinforcement LearningNLPStatistical MLOpen Source
Projects0
Years coding0+
Degrees0

Academic background

Education

Where I built the theoretical foundations that drive my work.

AI

In Progress

2025 – Present

MSc Artificial Intelligence

Università degli Studi di Verona · Verona, Italy

Advanced studies in machine learning, probabilistic AI, and deep learning. Research oriented toward large language models, neural architecture design, and efficient inference.

Machine LearningDeep LearningNLPProbabilistic AILLMsNeural Architectures

99

/ 110 final grade

2021 – 2024

BSc Bioinformatics

Università degli Studi di Verona · Verona, Italy

Three-year degree at the intersection of computational biology, statistics, and software engineering. Strong foundation in algorithms, genomic data analysis, and scientific computing.

AlgorithmsGenomicsStatistical AnalysisScientific ComputingPythonR

What I've built

Projects

Research, tools, and applications — from coursework to production.

01

Comparative Architectures for LLM-Based Email Triage

Evaluates three routing strategies — frozen zero-shot prompting, LoRA fine-tuning, and DistilBERT classification — for automatic assignment of customer-support emails across five departments. LoRA reaches 70.4% accuracy with under 1% trainable parameters; DistilBERT peaks at 76.6%.

PythonPyTorchLoRADistilBERTHuggingFaceJupyter
02

Semantic Document Retrieval on the Reuters Corpus

TF-IDF vectorisation and cosine similarity pipeline for large-scale document matching across ~10,800 Reuters news articles. Accepts raw text or file input and returns ranked results with configurable percentile thresholds — no stopword removal, operating on raw token distributions.

PythonNLTKscikit-learnTF-IDFCosine Similarity
03

Multi-Class Nutritional Grade Prediction via Classical ML

Five-way Nutri-Score classification (A–E) trained on 250,000 Open Food Facts products. Benchmarks Logistic Regression, KNN, SVM, Random Forest, and XGBoost across a full ML pipeline — imputation, outlier removal, PCA, stratified splits. SVM tops validation at 83.5% accuracy.

Pythonscikit-learnXGBoostPCAOpen Food Facts
04

A Decision Procedure for Equality, Lists, and Arrays

Production-ready satisfiability solver implementing congruence closure for quantifier-free first-order theories T_E, T_cons, and T_A. Follows Bradley & Manna (2007) with largest-ccpar heuristic optimisation and full SMT-LIB 2.0 support. 571 JUnit tests, all passing.

JavaSMT SolvingCongruence ClosureFormal VerificationJUnit
05

Demand Response Optimisation via Deep Reinforcement Learning

RL agents trained in the CityLearn environment for smart building energy management and real-time grid demand response. Explores actor-critic and Q-learning policies for multi-zone HVAC scheduling under dynamic electricity pricing.

PythonCityLearnStable-Baselines3GymnasiumJupyter
06

Computational Methods in Genomic Sequence Analysis

Collection of bioinformatics algorithms covering pairwise sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree construction, and genomic data processing pipelines. Developed as coursework for the BSc Bioinformatics programme at the University of Verona.

PythonBioPythonSequence AlignmentPhylogeneticsR

Tools of the trade

Tech Stack

Technologies and frameworks I reach for when building.

01
ML / AIPRIMARY FOCUS
5 frameworks
PyTorch
TensorFlow
JAXJAX
Hugging Face
scikit-learn

Frameworks powering research and production models.

02
Languages4
Python
TypeScript
Go
Rust
03
Web & APIs5
Next.js
React
Tailwind CSS
FastAPI
Node.js
04
Infra & DevOps6
Docker
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
Redis
Git
AWSAWS

My journey

Timeline

The path that brought me here.

2025 – Present

MSc Artificial Intelligence

Università degli Studi di Verona

education

Advanced studies in machine learning, probabilistic AI, and deep learning. Research focus on large language models and neural architectures.

2023 – Present

Sales Assistant & Data Analyst

JD Sports & Fashion

work

Dual role combining customer-facing retail operations with internal data analysis — trend reporting, KPI dashboards, and inventory insight.

2022 – Present

Open-Source Contributor

GitHub

personal

Ongoing contributions to ML and developer tooling ecosystems — bug fixes, feature PRs, and documentation across public repositories.

2022 – 2023

Sales Assistant

Foot Locker

work

First professional role in a high-traffic retail environment. Built strong customer service fundamentals and team coordination experience.

2021 – 2024

BSc Bioinformatics

Università degli Studi di Verona

education

Three-year degree at the intersection of biology, computer science, and statistics. Strong foundation in algorithms, data analysis, and scientific computing.

Credentials

Academic Degrees

Formal qualifications from the University of Verona.

Verona, Italy

Università degli Studi di Verona

Master of Science

Artificial Intelligence

Period

2025 – Present

In Progress

Verona, Italy

Università degli Studi di Verona

Bachelor of Science

Bioinformatics

Period

2021 – 2024

Final Grade

99 / 110

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Get in Touch

Let's build something remarkable.

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Jacopo Parretti · 2026