Hi, I'm Elio.
I am a PhD Student in Artificial Intelligence, program organized by the University of Pisa. While the PhD programme is organized by the University of Pisa, I work at the University of Bari. My main research interests are on multimodal and multilingual models.
News
- May 2026 Paper "Do you understand Italian? Evaluating LVLMs on Italian visual question-answering" published in LRE.
- December 2025 Paper "Extending Large Language Models to multimodality for non-English Languages" published in CVIU.
- October 2025 Paper on Visual Word Sense Disambiguation presented at ECAI 2025.
Research Areas
Multimodality
Developing methods to make Large Language Models capable of understanding and/or generating multiple modalities (e.g., vision-language).
Multilinguality
Developing methods to make Large Language Models more capable in non-English languages.
Selected Publications
Teaching
Multimodal NLP and Large Vision-Language Models
Fall 2025
Presentation on Multimodal NLP and Large Vision-Language Models for the Semantics in Intelligent Information Access Master Course (University of Bari).
Introduction to Godot (Italian)
Fall 2026
Presentation to introduce Godot fundamentals for game development for the Game Development Bachelor Course (University of Bari).