Alessandro Longo
PHD Student
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Longo is a PhD candidate at DREST researching how Large Language Models function as role-playing machines and enable new forms of digital spirituality and synthetic intimacy on platforms like Character.AI and Replika. With nine years of experience spanning digital humanities, journalism, and communications, he blends digital ethnography, semiotic analysis, and qualitative methods to probe AI companion design and psychosocial implications. He founded REINCANTAMENTO, an art-research collective and newsletter that maps the interplay of technology, ritual, and radical imagination, and advises the Shared Visions project on mutual support and alternative funding for artists. A multilingual humanities scholar trained in philosophy and digital humanities across Bologna, Cologne, Amsterdam, and Turin, he brings a practiced attention to imagination and care as tools for orienting technology. Besides academic research he writes freelance and has led communications for blockchain and cultural projects, combining theory with hands-on public engagement. Based in Berlin, he studies, codes, and thinks at the intersection of cultural critique and pragmatic design for emergent AI relations.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus+ Philosophy, Erasmus+ Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Bachelor's degree Filosofia, Bachelor's degree Filosofia at Università degli Studi di TorinoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Liceo Classico Massimo D'AzeglioErasmus+ Digital Humanities, Erasmus+ Digital Humanities at University of CologneLaurea Magistrale LM Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge, Laurea Magistrale LM Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Github Skills (60)
ribbon10
logback10
redis10
high-availability10
logger10
message-queue10
java10
soa10
feign10
translate10
spring-mybatis10
logging10
backend10
hystrix10
spring-cloud9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
YLongo/javascript-examples
Apr 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 10 branches in 6 years 9 months
YLongo/Dict2Anki
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
A cross platform tool import Youdao, Eudict wordlist to Anki
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
youdaoexewordlistmanualcross-platform
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