I am a 4^th year PhD student in computational cognitive science, working with professor Uri Hasson at Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento.

My research is at the intersection of AI and cognitive neuroscience, focusing on two topics:

1. Alignment of AI models with Human Cognition: Using pruning techniques and explainable AI, I study how deep neural networks represent information and how their representations align with human behavior and brain data.
2. Topographic Models: I explore models that simulate the spatial and functional organization of the brain, aiming to create more biologically plausible neural networks for cognitive research.

I was also a member of the PeARS project, a decentralized search engine designed to run locally on your machine with full control over privacy :)

News

• 21 December 2025: The paper Investigating action topography in visual cortex and deep artificial neural networks, a work with Davide Cortinovis, passed Nature Communications!
• 10 December 2025: The paper of Anna Bavaresco in which I am a coauthor - Modeling Human Concepts with Subspaces in Deep Vision Models, was accepted in the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS).
• 4 August 2025: My preprint Improved Robustness and Functional Localization in Topographic CNNs Through Weight Similarity is uploaded!