Since 2024, I am an Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where I work on Deep Learning, Vision-and-Language integration, Large-Scale models and Multimedia. I teach in the courses of "Computer Vision and Cognitive Systems," Scalable AI, and Computer Architecture. My research interests span various areas, including Vision-and-Language integration, Multimodal Retrieval, Image and Video Captioning, Visual-Semantic alignment, Large-Scale model development, HPC and Embodied AI. I have authored more than 140 publications in international journals and conferences. Currently, I serve as an Associate Editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition and act as an Area Chair for ICCV and major multimedia conferences. I am also a Scholar in the ELLIS society (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems), where I coordinate the Modena ELLIS Unit. Since 2021, I have held the position of deputy director at the Interdepartmental Center on Digital Humanities at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Earlier in my career, in 2017, I worked at the Facebook AI Research laboratory in Paris under the supervision of Hervé Jégou. During that time, I worked on the development of a video-matching algorithm that was adopted in production on the social network to detect abusive content.