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Andrea Cacioppo

Curriculum vitae - February 2026

Email andrea.cacioppo@uniroma1.it
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I am a physicist with 6+ 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.

Education

Nov 2022 - April 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 2016

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

Thesis: “Hidden Markov model”

Supervisor: Luciano Pietronero

Grade: 110/110 with honors

Work experience

Feb 2026 - present

Researcher, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy

Dept. of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health

Jan 2022 - July 2025

Machine Learning Consulting, Italy & Switzerland

ML consulting applied to diverse industry problems.

  • Primis Group SRL, Milan, Italy: determine best Machine Learning solutions tailored to LiDAR and satellite data, design of an anomaly detection algorithm for LiDAR data (contract of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana SPA)
  • Hypercube SA, Lugano, Switzerland: application of Machine Learning techniques to the detection of time series anomalies
  • Grid +, Rome, Italy: Automatic analysis of legal documents and anomaly detection
  • Individual clients, Italy: training NNs to solve PDEs in finance - implementation of diffusion models - training NNs on incomplete datasets - invoice reconciliation using an online LLM

Nov 2020 - Nov 2021

Research Associate, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Topics: classical-quantum compound channels and algorithms for the automatic generation of quantum graph states

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

Teaching

Feb 2026 - Mar 2026

"Python for scientific programming", Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy

Task: lectures and lab tutoring

Sep 2025 - Jan 2026

"Foundations of Programming with Laboratory", Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Task: lectures and lab tutoring

Jan 2022 - Nov 2024

Mathematics, physics and computer science, Individual clients, Italy

Task: individual tutoring for university students

Nov 2020 - Nov 2021

"Quantum networking", Technical University of Munich, Germany

Task: tutoring

Students supervised

  • Lorenzo Colantonio — "Quantum Diffusion generative models on variational quantum circuits" (Roma, 2023).
  • Federico Scarpati — "Physics informed Graph Neural Networks for Graph Coloring Problems" (Roma, 2024).

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

Conference talks

Feb 2026

Quantum Computing @ INFN, Milan, Italy, Talk

"Quantum enhanced fraud detection: a comparative study on real-world banking data"

Oct 2024

Quantum Computing @ INFN, Padova, Italy, Talk

"Quantum diffusion models for quantum data learning"

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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