Samuele Dell'Erba
Developing high-performance systems and exploring generative AI, optimizing text-to-image models at MICC and building AI avatars at NYOUS.
Passionate about Low-Level Programming, AI & Computer Vision.
Experience
Conducted research on a training-free method leveraging Optimization-based Visual Inversion (OVI) to replace diffusion priors in text-to-image models.
Technical Report:
Training-Free Diffusion Priors for Text-to-Image Generation via Optimization-based Visual Inversion (2025). S. Dell’Erba, A. D. Bagdanov.
Design and implementation of AI pipelines for news summarization, audio generation, and avatar-based video news anchors. Engineered the Avatar subsystem, focusing on audio-driven lip sync and body animation.
Selected Technical Projects
Distributed Microservices Platform
Engineered a scalable web app using K8s. Integrated Redis for caching, Grafana for monitoring, and real-time WebSockets for a PvP game engine.
Systems Programming Suite
Re-implemented standard library functions. Built a Unix Shell (process control), a Ray-Tracer (linear algebra engine), and a non-blocking IRC Server.
Logistic Regression & Data Analysis
Built a multi-class classifier (One-vs-All) purely in Python/NumPy (no high-level ML libraries), leveraging Batch and Stochastic Gradient Descent with Cross-Entropy Loss. Developed a custom statistical and visualization toolkit to analyze feature correlations.
Education
University of Florence | GPA: 30/30 with honors
Core: Algorithms, OS, Theoretical CS, Probability.
École 42 Firenze | EQF Level 7 Professional Certification.
Advanced track in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence.
École 42 Firenze | First student of the cohort to complete the curriculum
Focused on low-level C/C++, Unix System Programming, Concurrency, and memory management.
Liceo Scientifico L. da Vinci, Florence | Final Grade: 100/100
Awarded Carta del Merito by the Ministry of Education for achieving the maximum score.
Honors & Leadership
🏆 Selected for 42 Global Games
One of the top 4 students representing 42 Firenze in Paris based on technical scores and community engagement.
💡 Best Idea Award
Hack Attack Hackathon (Nana Bianca × 42). Awarded for designing a noise-pollution awareness social network.
🏛️ Student Board Member
EUniWell Alliance & University of Florence Course Representative.