Antonio is a candidate 4th year Ph.D student at Università della Svizzera Italina (USI), Switzerland, where he is part of the Software Institute. Antonio's work lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering with a strong emphasis on the automation of code-related tasks (e.g., bug-fixing, automated documentation of code components) as well as aspect related to the robustness of Foundation Models for SE (Software Engineering) such as GitHub Copilot

Before joining Università della Svizzera Italiana, Antonio graduated (cum laude) with an MSc. in Software Systems and Security from University of Molise, defending a thesis named: "DeepGen: a multi-task learning model for software engineering related-tasks". He was advised by Prof. Rocco Oliveto and Prof. Denys Poshyvanyk