I hold a PhD in Classical Literature and a BSc in Software Engineering, and my research develops AI- and knowledge-graph–based retrieval methods for ancient-world corpora, with applications in ancient environmental history (historical ecology) and Latin literature (especially Augustan elegy).

Roma Tre University, Rome, ItalyBSc in Software Engineering, 2025

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY Ph.D. in
Classical Literature, 2021

Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
M.A. in Klassische Philologie, 2015

Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
B.A. in Lettere Classiche, 2012

• “Generative AI for Ancient Insights: Leveraging LLMs and RAG for Ancient World Studies”, in Proc. of IEEE Cyber Humanities, 2025, Online
• “A Lover not a Fighter? Poetic and Aristocratic Honor in Tibullus 1.3.”, Classical World, vol. 116 no. 2, 2023, Online

Brooklyn College, CUNY , Brooklyn, NY

• 2016: Understanding Ancient History Through Classical Literature [46000]
• 2017 Fall: Intro to Classical Literature: works and literary genres in the ancient world [47438]
• 2017 Spring: Intro to Classical Literature: works and literary genres in the ancient world [48953]
• 2018 Fall: Intro to Classical Literature: works and literary genres in the ancient world [59900]
• 2018 Spring: Self and Society: From Homer to Edwardian England CLAS. 2109 MW11 [34550]
• 2019 Fall: Introduction to Classical Literature: works and genres in the ancient world [48954]

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

• 2018 Fall: Understanding Ancient History Through Classical Literature HIST-106A-01

Generative AI for Ancient Insights: Leveraging LLMs and RAG for Ancient World Studies, IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities, Florence, September 2025

Augmenting Ancient World Scholarship with Generative AI, Gottingen, DARIAH Annual Event 2025, Göttingen, June 2025 (Accepted for presentation)

Generative AI and Antiquity Data, ISAW, NYU, November 2024Leveraging GenAI and RAG Techniques for Teaching and Researching in Classical Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, November 2024

The Ethics of Shame and Honor in Cicero's De Officiis, Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Sheraton Silver Spring, MD, October 2019

Honor and Aristocratic Ethos in Tibullus' Elegy, University of Szeged, Hungary, August 2019

The Clash of Politics and Philosophy in Cicero's Honor Culture, Newcastle University, UK, May 2019

Programming & CS: Python, Java, OOP, Version control (Git, GitHub)

AI & Retrieval Systems: LLMs, RAG pipelines, OpenAI API, LangChain, Agentic RAG

Data & NLP: Python (pandas, scikit-learn), spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, SQLite

Software & Web: Flask, HTML/CSS, JavaScript