About me

Hi! This is a little personal website that collects some of the projects I have been working on as part of my job (or just for the fun of it).

If you nose around here, you can find academic publications, some software and web applications, talks, tutorials, interactive notebooks and other (big and small) analyses that I have been playing around with.

If you have any questions, notes, suggestions or just want to have a chat, please contact me on LinkedIn, check out my GitHub, or just drop me an email.

If you have time for background stories…

Bit of an artsy kid, grown up in the middle-of-nowhere Italian South, with the (questionable) blessing of little-to-no entertainment, which got me very excited about literature and philosophy. I ended up studying Psychology in my Bachelor, and those undergrad years were the breading ground for the two passions that still get me going today: one was statistics and the other was the brain.
So I got my hands on a scholarship and headed all the way to Amsterdam where I specialized in Neuroscience. There I met machine learning for the first time and - like anybody else in early 2010s - I was hooked.
My first data projects were all about applying these new ML techniques to brain time-series data, first in Amsterdam (MRI) and then in Cambridge (EEG). I then moved on to Rotterdam where I started whole new PhD adventure. I specialized further in Epidemiology and learned a great deal about causal inference. I also really grew my data analysis arsenal with exciting new techniques, questions and datasets (such as clinical and genomic data).
I currently work as a Data Scientist / Research Software Engineer for the Erasmus Medical Center.

Latest projects

• Longitudinal modeling of the co-development of depression and cardio-metabolic risk | Web app | Repository
  Tags: Cross-lag panel model G-estimation Network analysis Dashboard development

• Is NovoNordisk bad? Sentiment analysis of Reddit posts | Notebook
  Tags: Web scraping Natural language processing Sentiment analysis

• GuRu: a smart-search data dictionary web app for the Generation R study | Web app | Repository
  Tags: UX-design PostgreSQL SNOMED Knowledge graph

• Spotify data playground: a little over a century of top 100 music hits | Web app | Repository
  Tags: Data mining Music trend analysis Interactive dashboard Spotify API

About this website

Note: this lil’ website is hosted on GitHub pages. The Jekyll-based template I used was forked from this repository, which extended the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll Theme created by Michael Rose.