Education

• PhD in Computer Engineering, Department of Enginerring, University of Ferrara, 2020

  • Thesis title: Scalable Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming for Big Data. Supervisors: Prof. Fabrizio Riguzzi and Prof. Evelina Lamma

• MSc in Computer Science and Automation Engineering, University of Ferrara, 2016 (110/100 cum laude)

  • Thesis title: Automatic learning of a classifier for defects recognition in industrial products. Supervisors: Prof. Fabrizio Riguzzi and Prof. Evelina Lamma

• BSc in Electronics and Computer Science Engineering, University of Ferrara, 2014 (107/110)

  • Thesis title: Interaction with GitHub through Restful services. Supervisor: Prof. Cesare Stefanelli

Scientific expertise

• Large Language Models

• Computer Vision

• Natural Language Processing

• Logic Programming and Probabilistic Logic Programming

• Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence

• Machine Learning

• Ruby On Rails Expert for web application

Management

• 2022-now: Head of Machine Learning, SemVox GmbH, Germany

• 2019-now: CEO, co-founder start-up System Afrik Information Technology, Italy

• 2017-2020: Ph.D students representative at the engineering department of the University of Ferrara

• 2018-2023: Coordinator of Cameroonian students in Italy

Projects

• Neural-Symbolic Systems: Integration of Deep Neural Network and Probabilistic Logic Programming

• Machine Learning-Based Translation of African Languages ​​into French and English: Case of Medumba and Mahbelema

• Computer vision for fruit quality assessment: Case of african plums

• Design and implementation of a digital platform for managing secondary schools

• Complete list of projects available at http://www.arnaud-fadja.it/en/projects

AI systems implemented

• African plum quality detection: 

  • System: https://demo.roboflow.com/plums-0ucd7/3?publishable_key=rf_Jow5TwJ4d7VFcm2Eg5As8MrnR4F2

  • Running instance: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1At5CnaDXv4K1u3hSaorHaMJJSodk6GJj/view

• Phil on SWISH: https://cplint.eu/example/phil/phil_examples.swinb

• LIFTCOVER: https://cplint.eu/example/liftcover/liftcover_examples.swinb

Published datasets

• African plum datasets: https://www.kaggle.com/dsv/9694239

Teachings

• 2020-2023: Contract professor and co-teaching of the course "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine", for Master's Degree students in Medicine and Surgery, at the Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine

• 2020-2021: Carried out the teaching assignment for the course “Introduction to artificial intelligence” at the scientific high school Roiti Ferrara, Italy. Held from 10 March to 16 April 2021.

• 2020-2021: Carried out the teaching assignment for the course "Computer Technology and Statistics for Ph.D. Students", a course offered to doctoral students of the University of Ferrara. From 1/12/2020 to 4/12/2020

• 2019-2020: Carried out a module of the course "Fundamentals of Computer Science", Bachelor's Degree Course in Communication Sciences and Technologies, at the Department of Humanities of the University of Ferrara. From February 2020 to may 2020

• 2017: Teaching of a deep learning course at  Microtec company in Bressano as part of a technology transfer project. The topics include Artificial/Convolution/Recurrent/Capsule Neural Networks, Object/Semantic/outlier detection, transfer learning, data augmentation, Generational Adversarial Network. Techniques such as YOLO, Mask-RNN, fast/er Mask-RNN were taught.

Tutoring and teaching assistant and laboratory activities

• In AY 2018/2019 received the assignment of didactic tutor for the "Programming languages ​​and laboratory" course (Java, Lex and Prolog programming), Bachelor's Degree Course in Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara. Course teacher: Prof. Fabrizio Riguzzi

• In AY 2017/2018  carried out the tutoring activity for the course "Fundamentals of Computer Science - module B" (Advanced C Programming and Java), Bachelor's Degree Course in Electronic and Computer Engineering, at the Department of Engineering of the University of Ferrara Studies. Course teacher: Prof. Evelina Lamma.

• In the AY 2017/2018, 2018/2019, carried out the tutoring activity for the course "Fundamentals of Computer Science - module A" (Programming C), Bachelor's Degree Course in Electronic and Computer Engineering, at the Department of Engineering of the University of the Studies of Ferrara. Course teacher: Prof. Marco Gavanelli.

• In the 2016/2017 academic year was appointed as teaching tutor for the course "Databases", Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara. Course teacher: Prof. Giacomo Piva.

• In the academic years 2015/2016, 2016/2017  appointed as teaching tutor for the course "Programming and Laboratory" (Programming C), Bachelor's Degree Course in Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara. Course teacher: Doctor Giacomo Piva.

• From AY 2016/2017 to 2019/2020 carried out the laboratory activities supervising several students in their project called “Artificial intelligence laboratory” part of the Artificial intelligence course held by Prof.sa Evelina Lamma

Talks

• List of all talks available at http://www.arnaud-fadja.it/en/talks

Awards

• Award for the best Cameroon student at the University of Ferrara in 2016, awarded by the Cameroonian Association in Ferrara

Activities

• Student supervision: (Co-)supervisor for 19 bachelor’s and master’s  theses. Complete list available at http://www.arnaud-fadja.it/en/theses

• Review Editor for Frontiers in Machine Learning, Black in AI conference, IJCAI-ECAI (INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE)

Publications

• List of all publications available at http://www.arnaud-fadja.it/en/articles