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Hi there I'm Luca 👋

This is a short introduction of myself. If you want a more detailed description you can read my CV (longer version) or visit my LinkedIn account

Me giving a talk at Pycon IT 2024

Hi 👋, I am Luca Corbucci and I work as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento 🇮🇹 where I am part of the Machine Translation Unit led by Luisa Bentivogli. I am currently working on Multimodal LLMs, specifically on the training and post-training of Speech LLMs.

I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Pisa 🇮🇹 under the supervision of Prof. Anna Monreale and Dr. Nicolas Kourtellis in July 2025. During the PhD, I worked at the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and Safety. Specifically, I focused on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, Model (Un)Fairness, and Explainability. However, I am attracted to new technologies. Therefore, I am also open to working on different and innovative topics.

In the last few years, I have led international research collaborations, including a 1-year research internship with Telefónica Research and projects with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz that led to 3 publications to ACM FAccT.

Education #

🧑‍🎓 I received a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2018 and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2021 with the thesis “Semantic enrichment of XAI explanations for healthcare”. In 2019, I spent one semester at the Computer Science Department of the Technische Universität München 🇩🇪 as an exchange student thanks to the Erasmus program.

In 2021, I started my PhD at the University of Pisa. During the PhD, I spent 12 months as a Research Intern at the Telefonica Research Center in Barcelona 🇪🇸. I am grateful to have been supervised by Nicolas Kourtellis, Mikko Heikkila and David Solans. During this period, I worked on Private and Fair Federated Learning under the Spatial EU Project.

 Education #

  • (Nov 2021 – Jul 2025) Ph.D. in Computer Science – University of Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹

    • Thesis: “Beyond Model Accuracy: Building Trustworthy Federated Learning Systems”
    • Grade: Summa cum laude
    • Main research interests: Private, Fair and Explainable Federated Learning

  • (Oct 2019 – Mar 2020) International Exchange – Technical University of Munich, Germany 🇩🇪

  • (2018 – 2021) Master Degree in Computer Science – University of Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹

    • Thesis: Semantic Enrichment of XAI Explanation for Healthcare (supervisor: Prof. Anna Monreale, Dott. Cecilia Panigutti)

  • (2014 – 2018) BSc in Computer Science – University of Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹

    • Thesis: Construction and Analysis of the Ethereum Transaction Graphs (supervisor: Prof. Laura Ricci, Dott. Damiano Di Francesco Maesa)

Work Experience #

  • (Mar 2026 – Present) Postdoctoral Researcher – Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy 🇮🇹

    • Working on Multimodal LLMs, specifically on the training of Speech LLMs and their post-training.

  • (Mar 2023 – Mar 2024) Visiting PhD Student and Research Intern – Telefonica R&D, Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

    • Working on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning, Fairness and Federated Learning

  • (Jan 2022 – Apr 2022) Teaching Assistant – University of Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹

    • Tutoring activities for the “Laboratorio 1” course. Main topics: Javascript and Typescript.

  • (Jun 2021 – Oct 2021) Research Assistant – University of Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹

    • Won a research scholarship to continue my master’s thesis project.

    • Worked on the extension of XAI methods for healthcare

  • (Jan 2021 – Feb 2021) Teaching assistant – University of Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹

    • Tutoring activities for the “Programming and Algorithmics” course.

  • (Sep 2020 – Dec 2020) Teaching assistant – University of Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹

    • Freshmen tutor - Computer Science students.

  • (Mar 2020 – Jun 2021) Flutter Developer - Tocket – Remote 🇮🇹

    • Developed the MVP Tocket’s application using Flutter. The app was published on the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store and downloaded more than 20.000 times.

    • Developed an internal dashboard to add new events

Podcast and Communities #

🎙 I have always been attracted to communities. Between 2013 and 2015, I worked as an editor for Biteyourapple.net, writing more than 1,000 posts, recording videos and participating in the Bitecast podcast. I am the PointerPodcast co-founder. PointerPodcast is a podcast about technology and innovation. We have published more than 280 episodes since its creation in 2019. In most of them, we interview software engineers and researchers from academia and industry. Lately, I have founded two communities. The first is Superhero Valley, a community that tries to fill the gap between university and industry. It does this by providing awareness of the opportunities offered by big tech companies to students. The second is Pisa.dev a local community that organizes meetups for developers and computer scientists in Pisa 🇮🇹.

🍦 In my free time I enjoy acting as a critique about books and TV shows.

Volunteering #

  • GDG Pisa Devfest 2026: I was one of the helpers of GDG Pisa Devfest 2026.

  • GDG Pisa Devfest 2025: I was one of the helpers of GDG Pisa Devfest 2025.

  • Co-organized the “Low-Level AI Engineering & Hacking” Dev Room at Fosdem 2025, a dedicated track for AI practitioners and researchers. Curated the schedule, coordinated speaker selection, and managed the call for proposals to ensure a diverse and high-quality lineup of talks.

  • GDG Pisa Devfest 2024: I was one of the helpers of GDG Pisa Devfest 2024.

  • GDG Pisa Devfest 2023: I was one of the helpers of GDG Pisa Devfest 2023. I was one of the stage managers and helped record interviews with attendees and speakers. The video of the interviews is here.