Lorenzo Buffoni
Assistant Professor at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Montevarchi, Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolLorenzo Buffoni is an assistant professor and physicist with eight years of interdisciplinary research experience at the intersection of machine learning, quantum computation, and bioinformatics. He has transitioned from PhD work in complex systems to postdoctoral and visiting roles—including at the Broad Institute and D-Wave—building deep learning pipelines for genomics and quantum machine learning models. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he teaches and mentors students while leading collaborative projects in physics of information and quantum technologies. Lorenzo is also passionate about scientific communication to non-expert audiences and has practical experience applying generative and optimization methods to real-world problems. Based in Tuscany, he combines strong technical depth in quantum ML with a track record of translating theory into implemented research.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange student semester, Exchange student semester at International Centre for Theoretical PhysicDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Engineering, Complex Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Engineering, Complex Systems at Università degli Studi di FirenzeHigh school diploma, High school diploma at Liceo scientifico Benedetto VarchiExchange student semester, Exchange student semester at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di TriesteM2, Double degree program with Politecnico di Torino, Physics, M2, Double degree program with Politecnico di Torino, Physics at Pierre and Marie Curie UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Physics of Complex Systems, Master of Science - MS, Physics of Complex Systems at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English
Github Skills (8)
spectral9
simulator8
quantum-computing6
python6
quantum-algorithms2
qiskit2
quantum-programming-language1
qutip1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Buffoni/SQWalk
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
A simple quantum walk simulator in python
Contributions:38 commits, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 6 months
pythonquantum-computingwalksimulatorquantum
Buffoni/dwave_notebooks
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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