Biomedical Engineer · Clinical AI

I build and evaluate AI systems for clinical oncology.

I'm a biomedical engineer with an MSc from Politecnico di Milano and two years in product management. My thesis at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori tested whether LLM agents can be trusted to recommend lung cancer treatment. The work led to an abstract presented at the ESMO Congress 2026.

Open to PhD positions and industry roles in clinical AI. Milan, Italy
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MSc, Politecnico di Milano Biomedical Engineering · 2026

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  • Our abstract on evaluating clinical AI agents for first-line NSCLC immunotherapy was accepted and presented at the ESMO Congress 2026.
  • Defended my MSc thesis, “Evaluating Clinical Agentic AI Systems in Oncology”, at Politecnico di Milano.
  • Joined AI-On-Lab at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, as an agentic AI research intern.
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Can we trust an AI agent with a cancer treatment decision?

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MSc thesis · ESMO 2026

Evaluating Clinical Agentic AI Systems in Oncology

AI agents can already write a treatment plan for a lung cancer patient. The harder question is whether their reasoning holds up. My thesis built nsclc-eval, a framework that scores both the reasoning and the final recommendation of LLM agents choosing between immunotherapy alone (IO) and immunotherapy plus chemotherapy (IOCT) for advanced NSCLC.

  • Python
  • llama.cpp
  • Docker
  • Pydantic
  • Open-weight LLMs
  • LLM-as-a-judge
5 open-weight LLMs
25 judge × agent pairs
454 evaluations
8 metrics in 2 tiers
Selected work

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Team project2025

Decoding visual stimuli from fMRI

Predicted the category of a viewed image from activity in 4,466 visual-cortex voxels, comparing MLP, BiLSTM, Transformer, 3D-CNN and BiGRU models. Handled strong class imbalance with class weights and PCA, and mapped Integrated Gradients attributions back to single voxels.

  • PyTorch
  • fMRI
  • Explainability
Course project2025

Lung nodule malignancy classification from CT

Fine-tuned ConvNeXt-Tiny on full CT slices and on nodule crops from the LIDC dataset, for benign/malignant and 5-level malignancy. Used MixUp and CutMix against class imbalance and Grad-CAM++ for explanations.

  • ConvNeXt
  • CT imaging
  • Grad-CAM++

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Open to PhD positions and industry roles in clinical AI. I'd be glad to hear from you.

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