Simone A.
Head of Technology & CISO
Experience
Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 11 monthsFrankfurt, Germany
Head of Technology & CISO
AI Quality and Testing Hub
- Lead developer of Prof. Valmed, the first LLM-powered medical device (utilising RAG on a medical corpus of 2.5M+ documents) to receive a CE certification.
- Designed and implemented cloud-native MLOps infrastructure for ENBW’s energy trading analytics division, enabling scalable deployment and monitoring of predictive models.
- Architected end-to-end testing and validation frameworks for AI/ML systems, ensuring quality, compliance, and robustness in critical and regulated applications.
- Conducted professional training on AI testing, EU regulatory frameworks, and quality assurance for production AI systems.
Jan 2021 - Dec 2024
4 yearsHamburg, Germany
Staff Scientist in the CMS experiment and Lecturer at Uni. Wuppertal
DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
- Led a 50 people group in the development of ten python data analyses for peer-reviewed publications using a variety of statistical (classification, regression, hypothesis testing) and machine learning (BDT, Random Forest, DNN) techniques.
- Introduced and optimised deep neural network machine learning algorithms in TensorFlow to reweight Monte Carlo simulation parameters, reducing by up to a factor of five the need for simulated events in the collaboration.
- Trained generative AI models in PyTorch to accurately reproduce expensive Monte Carlo simulations.
- Spearheaded the development of the xFitter open-source C++ code for non-linear regression analyses.
- Lecturer in particle physics and data analysis at university courses and physics schools.
- Mentored and supervised over 20 students (from B.Sc. to PostDoc) in data analysis projects.
Jan 2018 - Dec 2021
4 yearsHamburg, Germany
Senior Research Fellow in the ATLAS experiment
DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
- Led a statistical combination of W-boson mass measurements and developed a Python tool to study uncertainty models and correlations.
- Headed the Physics Modeling Group; liaised between data analysis teams and upper management for the distribution of computing cloud and HPC resources (∼300K CPU cores).
- Defined the long-term computing strategy of the experiment (CPU and GPU needs).
- Steered a 150-member team to commission, validate, and bring to production novel theoretical models and Monte Carlo simulation.
Jan 2015 - Dec 2018
4 yearsGeneva, Switzerland
Senior Research Fellow in the ATLAS experiment
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Headed a four-person team to complete two data analysis publications using Python and C++.
- Improved the efficiency of real-time C++ data selection algorithms of the ATLAS experiment, leading to a 30% performance enhancement.
- Optimised theoretical model parameters through linear regression analyses optimising 100 parameters across over 50 input datasets (over 10,000 measurements), documented in several peer-reviewed publications.
Jan 2011 - Dec 2015
5 yearsFreiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) in Physics working in the ATLAS experiment
Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
- Developed a novel model-independent global search, an unsupervised approach to classify and analyse all high-energy events produced by the Large Hadron Collider (105 regions in over 700 distributions) to test for possible deviations from theoretical models.
- Developed Professor, a Python program for hyperparameter tuning of problems with expensive objective functions; extended the code to handle systematic uncertainties and correlations and implemented a Support Vector Regressor for parameter optimisation.
Summary
I’ve worked on everything from statistical modeling and simulation to machine learning and large-scale data processing across high-stakes, large-scale settings; from the big particle detectors at CERN to critical applications in healthcare and the energy sector. I’ve taken on both technical leadership and deeply hands-on roles, with end-to-end experience from early design and prototyping to implementation and large-scale production deployment. I thrive working on hard problems in fast-paced environments, especially when the stakes are high and the work demands both focus and creativity.
Languages
Italian
NativeEnglish
AdvancedFrench
IntermediateRussian
IntermediateEducation
Oct 2011 - Jun 2015
Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
Dr. Rer. Nat. in Physics · Physics · Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Oct 2009 - Jun 2011
University of Rome Tor Vergata
M.Sc. in Physics · Physics · Rome, Italy · 110/110 cum laude
Oct 2006 - Jun 2009
University of Rome Tor Vergata
B.Sc. in Physics · Physics · Rome, Italy · 110/110 cum laude
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