EMAI Alumni
Class of 2025

BASSOTTO, CRISTIAN
Italy
Mobility: Second semester at the University of Ljubljana and second year at Radboud University
Master's Thesis: ML-based attack on module-LWE assessing the security of module-lattice-based schemes

CALIS, AHMET
Turkey
Mobility: Second semester at the University of Ljubljana and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
Master's Thesis: Towards trustworthy AI research assistants: leveraging knowledge graphs for knowledge synthesis

CARPES, ANTONIO ALBERTO
Spain
Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Sapienza University
Master's Thesis: From perception to action: implementing in-context imitation learning on a franka robot for pick-and-place tasks

CHISSICH, ROBERTA
Italy
Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Radboud University

CIANCI, GIUSEPPE
Germany
Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
Research Engineer on the Visual Studio Code at Microsoft in Zurich (Switzerland)
Master's Thesis: Multimodal hierarchical masked autoencoders tailored to ECG time series for atrial fibrillation risk stratification

DIMITRIEVIKJ, ALEKSANDAR
North Macedonia
Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
Enrolled in an industrial PhD at Chalmers University (Sweden) in collaboration with AstraZeneca
Master's Thesis: Steering vector-guided molecular generation using language models

DORIN, DARIANA
Romania
Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
Enrolled in a PhD programme
Master's Thesis: Federated fine-tuning of foundation models for human activity recognition using wearable data under EU regulations

DUTHIE, HONOR
UK
Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Sapienza University
Employed at Australian Super, Melbourne (Australia)
Master's Thesis: Evaluating feature matching and ensemble strategies for monocular pose estimation in colonoscopy videos

FIGUEIRA, JOAQUÍN
Spain
Mobility: Second semester at the University of Ljubljana and second year at Radboud University
Enrolled in a Phd programme at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
Master's Thesis: Self-supervised and in-context learning techniques for automated optical inspection

GHEORGHIU, ADRIAN
Romania
Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Radboud University
Enrolled in an industrial PhD at Zenseact in Gothenburg in collaboration with Uppsala University (Sweden)
Master's Thesis: Graph neural networks for clutter and target classification in automotive radar

GONZALEZ, MANFRED
Costa Rica
Mobility: Second semester and second year at the University of Ljubljana
Enrolled in a PhD programme and employed in industry as a Senior Data Scientist
Master's Thesis: Face de-identification using diffusion models

KORMUSHEV, NIKOLAY
Bulgaria
Mobility: Second semester and second year at the University of Ljubljana
Research Assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich - ETH, (Switzerland)
Master's Thesis: A Novel method for open-vocabulary panoptic segmentation

LENDERING, CAMILE
Netherlands
Mobility: Second semester and second year at the University of Ljubljana
Enrolled in a Phd programme at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
Master's Thesis: Deep learning for predicting wave parameters from wind components in the Adriatic basin

LUMBUROVSKA, LEONIDA
North Macedonia
Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
Enrolled in a Phd programme at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Topic: Temporal Multimodal Explainable AI for Enhanced Diagnosis and Understanding of Multiple Chronic Diseases
Master's Thesis: Attention-enhanced 3D convolutional neural network for automated lung nodule malignancy assessment

MOREIRA, PEDRO JOSÉ
Portugal
Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
Master's Thesis: Deep research agentic framework for mitigating bias in AI-driven healthcare diagnostics

NIAYESH, NAZANIN
Germany
Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Radboud University
Software developer with data science specialisation at CISMO (Austria).
Master's Thesis: Multi-turn attacks for automated LLM red teaming

PATTICHIS, ANDREAS
Cyprus
Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
Enrolled in a PhD programme
Master's Thesis: Overcoming operational barriers to scalable school detection using low-cost satellite imagery and cross-country knowledge distillation

PERRONE DE MENEZES, BERNARDO
Italy
Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
Quantitative Developer II at Scalable Capital (Germany)
Master's Thesis: Deep learning for precipitation nowcasting in Slovenia

VEGAS, NEUS
Spain
Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Sapienza University
Enrolled in a PhD programme at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Topic: Generative Prediction of MHC-TCR Binding Peptides
Master's Thesis: Set covering machine on t-cell receptor LLM representations for lung cancer prediction