Alfredo Serafini

Lead knowledge engineering activities for Velvet LLM data and internal R&D, designing dataset metadata, versioning, preprocessing pipelines and evaluations, and prototyping metadata catalog and virtual knowledge graphs to enable NL queries and SQL virtualization.

Provide freelance consulting, prototyping and training on linked data, information retrieval, ML and digital transformation for greenfield projects and POCs.

Designed and implemented linked open data solutions, ontologies and data workflows for public organisations (AGID, ANAC, Sogei), enabling data integration, publishing and analytics across semantic datalake platforms.

Delivered a Scala language foundation course as a short-term freelance instructor.

Researched RDF/OWL-driven descriptions for APIs and cloud platforms and developed conceptual mappings to assess adoption of semantic standards.

Delivered technical courses and tutoring on Java, databases, web programming and wrote supporting technical documentation and course materials.

Developed the SpamTrap component to ingest and index emails into an analytics workflow, focusing on robust extraction and integration with existing platforms.

Prototyped linked open data solutions for the Italian Foreign Ministry, producing domain ontologies, APIs and visualizations and mentoring teams on LOD adoption.

Provided pro-bono technical expertise for Open Pompei, leading initial data extraction and prototype development for cultural heritage open data.

Advised on RDF/SPARQL configuration, improved RDF representations and workflows during early-stage experimentation.

Designed and prototyped a graph-based career services platform (DSELF), authored grant proposal, taught linked data topics and developed backend prototype.

Authored 'Apache Solr Beginner's Guide' and reviewed technical content on search and semantic technologies for Packt publications.

Integrated semantic search components for banking applications (Unicredit), focusing on NLP, Lucene integration and ontology-driven search.

Planned and reviewed content for java.html.it, recruited authors and produced technical articles and blog posts.

Developed backend services for geoavalanche project and explored integration of linked data with search capabilities.

Developed components to acquire streaming sensor data for player trajectory analysis, integrating NMEA/RXTX streams with backend storage.

Delivered LOD platforms and tools for public institutions (Camera dei Deputati, ICPAL, ACS), building data ingestion, SPARQL endpoints and semantic navigation prototypes.

Provided tutoring and instruction for Java and SQL courses.

Delivered basic Java courses and tutored students in programming fundamentals.

Configured web and streaming servers and managed audio automation and live broadcasting infrastructure for the university webradio.

Taught programming and web technologies (Java, PHP, C, HTML/CSS, SQL) for public-sector training programs and authored documentation.

Delivered courses on SQL (Oracle) and Java/JSP including design patterns and testing for corporate training programs.

Developed research prototypes in music information retrieval and other AI projects, publishing work on genre classification and participating in MIREX evaluations.

Worked on music information retrieval research, tools and datasets leading to conference publications and competitive evaluation results.

Supported students with disabilities to attend university lessons and facilitated accessibility services during civil service year.

Completed a First Level Master's Degree in Sound Engineering at the Electronic Engineering Department, focusing on sound engineering and related technologies.

Attended a specialization course on Ontologies and Automated Reasoning with hands-on work using Protégé and reasoning tools.

Earned a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Engineering, conducting an experimental thesis on feature representation and extraction for automatic musical genre recognition using AI/ML techniques.

Completed secondary education with a scientific high school diploma (Maturità Scientifica).