Founder & CTO

globalTone

Medtech startup bringing AI into dermoscopy: a SaaS & SaMD decision support system for early skin cancer detection and patient management. Responsible for the entire technological development — AI model design and training, software and cloud architecture, hardware integration, data pipeline and cybersecurity. Bootstrapped from research prototype to MVP and alpha product; the company is now raising its pre-seed round. Finalist and winner of two Special Prizes at StartCup Lazio 2025. Learn more at globaltone.tech.

Founder & CTO

Eureka

AI-powered expert-matching platform connecting companies, researchers and innovators with the right experts for their research and innovation projects. Leading the entire technological development — backend & frontend, AI matching engine, software architecture & infrastructure — and defining the product roadmap. Live in demo version with 15+ early clients. Learn more at eureka-ai.it.

Developer — PACY × Google.org

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Part of the development team, from the first line of code to launch, of PACY (Pro-Active CYbersecurity), a generative-AI platform born from the collaboration between Google.org, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and Politecnico di Milano to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of Italian SMEs. Contributed to designing and implementing the AI system — Google Gemini and Gemma orchestrated in a multi-agent architecture — data gathering, API selection, and development of the platform, frontend and backend (Flask). PACY has been acquired by Par-Tec for commercial distribution in Italy.

Teaching Assistant, Tutor & Lecturer

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Teaching and tutoring across the University's engineering and medical degree programs: Automation and Safety in Work Environments (M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering), Digital Twins for Control, Automation and Predictive Maintenance (M.Sc. Engineering of Intelligent Systems), Dynamics and Control of Chemical Processes (M.Sc. Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Development), and Fundamentals of Computer Science (Medicine and Surgery "MedTech" and B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering).

Corporate Lecturer

Casagit Salute

Corporate training course "Artificial Intelligence for People and Business": fundamentals of AI, the European AI Act, practical AI applications for decision-making, risk analysis and mitigation, and the ethical use of AI.

PhD Student

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

National PhD in Artificial Intelligence in Health and Life Sciences. Doctoral research on computer vision and clinical decision support systems for early skin cancer detection and patient management, with an active research collaboration with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Institute of Health). Member of the ARCO Lab (Artificial Intelligence and Computer Systems) and CoserityLab (Complex Systems & Security Lab) research units.

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering (LM-21)

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Curriculum in e-Health. Thesis in the area of AI applied to medicine: "AI Dermoscopy through app". Final grade: 110/110 Summa Cum Laude with the Highest Honors for Special Distinction and Academic Career.

Engineering and Data Science Projects

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Including:

AI frameworks applied to medicine: classification, segmentation and decision-support pipelines

Full Large Language Model stack: model selection, API integration and local deployment, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), prompt engineering and evaluation, RAG and multi-agent architectures

Acquisition, processing and analysis of biomedical signals and data

IoT solutions: software & hardware sensor interfacing on microcontrollers and signal handling

Custom hardware design and custom 3D design

B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering (L-9)

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Thesis in signal processing: "Experimental study and evaluation of tremors". Final grade: 101/110.

Scientific High School Diploma

Liceo Scientifico Antonio Labriola, Rome

Investigation of Multi-Site Body Accelerometer and ECG Signals for Fall Detection in Worker Safety Applications

Pinnelli M., Fildi S.S., Vollero L., Schena E., Setola R., Massaroni C.

2026 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT (MetroInd4.0&IoT), IEEE.

PACY: ProActive Cybersecurity for Small and Medium Enterprises

Fildi S.S., Mannarino G., Peluzzi G., Perone S., Colasante M., Faramondi L., Setola R.

2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities (IEEE-CH), pp. 1–6, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/IEEE-CH65308.2025.11279709

Cyber Incident Management Across the Supply Chain: The PACY Approach for Resilience Under NIS2

Fildi S.S., Mannarino G., Peluzzi G., Perone S., Faramondi L., Setola R.

Accepted for publication at the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2026, Springer.

Empirical Characterization of the Ransomware Threat Landscape in the GLAM Sector

Mannarino G., Perone S., Fildi S.S., Peluzzi G., Guarino S.

Accepted for publication at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities (IEEE-CH), IEEE.

Benchmarking Small-Scale VLMs for Zero-Shot Dermoscopic Feature Extraction

Fildi S.S., Colacino V., Cohen M., D'Avenio G., Vollero L.

Submitted to the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), Special Issue on Emerging AI Technologies and Innovations in Bioinformatics and Health Informatics, March 2026.

Student Representative & Voting Member, Doctoral School Council

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Elected representative of doctoral candidates across the four PhD programs of the University, with full voting rights on the council governing the Doctoral School: binding decisions on curriculum changes, research budget allocation and strategic planning.

Student Representative, National PhD in Artificial Intelligence

phd-ai.it

Representing a nationwide network of AI doctoral students across multiple universities, serving as the primary liaison between the student body and the academic board.

Voting Member & Communication Lead, Student Council

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Voting representative in the University Student Council, participating in binding decisions on campus student life and activities. As Communication Lead, running the Council's official Instagram channel.

Thesis Co-Supervisor

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Co-supervisor of thesis students across the Biomedical Engineering and Medicine and Surgery degree programs, on artificial intelligence, computer vision, biomedical instrumentation and IoT — including lightweight deep learning for skin-lesion segmentation, a 3D matching pipeline for robot-assisted partial nephrectomy, a LoRa-based wearable for man-down detection, drone transport of biological material, and AI-integrated dermoscopy for clinical risk management.

Student Representative, M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Elected representative for the M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering: primary student advocate in the Degree Program Council on educational quality, exam structure, laboratory activities and student well-being.

Class Representative

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Elected class representative, liaison between students and faculty for teaching activities, exam scheduling and day-to-day academic issues.

Head Organizer, Annual Charity Gala

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

The university's largest philanthropic event. Involved for four consecutive editions and Head Organizer for the past three, managing logistics for 1,500 attendees: partnerships, sponsors, budget and the student committee. The last three editions raised a total of €110,000 for ten charity organizations. Latest edition: Christmas Grand Gala 2025.

StartCup Lazio 2025 — Finalist, two Special Prizes

globalTone

Finalist and winner of the Bugnion Special Prize (patent creation) and the ZEST Special Prize (acceleration program access) at StartCup Lazio, the regional business plan competition promoted by Lazio Innova.

Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge — Semifinalist

Global Consortium for Innovation and Engineering in Medicine

Semifinalist in two consecutive editions — 2025 (Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and 2026 (Taipei, Taiwan) — developing engineering solutions for global health.