Summary
Pietro Bongini is an AI technical coordinator and computer vision specialist with eight years of experience bridging academic research and applied AI in industry. With a PhD focused on machine learning and visual question answering, he has led research on object detection, activity recognition, commonsense and attention-based reasoning, and deployed VQA solutions on mobile devices. At Leonardo he progressed from researcher to technical lead, planning and managing multimodal learning projects, coordinating teams, and acting as the primary stakeholder interface. Comfortable moving between deep research and project execution, he combines rigorous academic training from Università degli Studi di Firenze and a visiting PhD stint in Barcelona with hands-on delivery experience. Based in Florence, he’s driven by a long-term interest in advancing machine learning and artificial vision into real-world systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Ph.D, Machine Learning, Visiting Ph.D, Machine Learning at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
PhD Student in Information Engineering, PhD Student in Information Engineering at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Italian, English