Summary
Massimiliano Luca is a research-driven computer scientist with nine years of experience blending academic rigor and applied AI, currently serving as Science Ambassador and Senior Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler. He holds an MS in Data Science (110 cum laude) and a PhD track spanning the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, MIT visits, and cross-disciplinary stints at CSIC and CNR, with deep expertise in generative AI, language models, model robustness and mobility prediction. He has moved between research and product roles—leading R&D and briefly acting as CTO/CSO at Pulse.io—translating complex models into practical systems for personalization, forecasting and reinforcement learning. A pattern-seeker by training, he has combined Kalman filters, hybrid neural approaches and collective-behavior modelling in transport and tourism projects, showing a taste for hybridizing classical and deep learning methods. Based in Trentino, he contributes to the Complex Systems community while bridging lab-grade research and real-world deployment.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Visitor PhD Student, Visitor PhD Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Data Science, 110 cum Laude, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Data Science, 110 cum Laude at Università degli Studi di Trento
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Faculty of Computer Science - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Italian, English, German, Spanish