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Deborah Danieli

Deborah Danieli

Catanzaro

Summary

Master’s Graduate in AI and Machine Learning. Experienced in developing AI-driven solutions for vehicle testing and structural health monitoring at SIEMENS. Passionate about transforming research into real-world impact through curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning. Skilled in AI, software development, and data analysis, committed to creating efficient and trustworthy solutions.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience

Work History

Research Engineer (AI & ML)

Siemens PLM Software - UNICAL
Leuven
01.2025 - Current
  • Developed AI solutions for anomaly detection in End-of-Line (EOL) vehicle testing, increasing reliability and reducing manual inspections.
  • Research paper in preparation for submission to an international AI conference.
  • Designed AI models for real-time structural health monitoring with Video Motion Magnification (VMM), achieving artifact reduction and clearer visual outputs.

Research Intern (AI & NLP)

Concordia University
Montreal
09.2024 - 12.2024

Performed NLP research to monitor mental health through social media with LLMs.
Increased depression detection accuracy by 10% via BERT fine-tuning. Enhanced explainability of model predictions.

Education

Master's Degree - AI & ML

Università Della Calabria (UNICAL)
Rende, Italy
12.2024

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Engineering

Università Della Calabria (UNICAL)
Rende, Italy
12.2022

Skills

  • Programming languages: C, C, Python, Java, R, Prolog, Haskell, Assembly, HTML, CSS
  • AI and ML: Large Language Models (LLMs), Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Hugging Face, RAG, Neural Networks, Computer Vision (OpenCV), Deep Learning (TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, scikit-learn), Symbolic AI & Knowledge Representation
  • Big Data, databases, and cloud: AWS Cloud, SQL, MS-SQL, Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Sqoop, Pig), Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, relational and non-relational databases
  • Software development and tools: Git, OOP, multithreading (Java), Spring, Spring Boot, Microsoft 365
  • Data science and tools: NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, Statistical Modeling, Optimization
  • Foundations and Others: AI ethics, Cryptography, Mathematics, Statistics

Projects

Integration of Large Language Models (LLM) for Depression Monitoring in Social Media: 

  • Designed an NLP system for early detection of depression by analyzing user post histories, used ChatGPT-4 APIs to generate psychological reports with enriched prompts and contextual metadata.
  • 10% improvement in detection accuracy and interpretable results with Explainable AI.

AI-Driven Anomaly Detection and Severity Estimation in Vehicle EOL Testing: 

  • Developed a Multitask Learning system combining segmentation (U-Net) and regression to identify anomalies and estimate severity.
  • Improved segmentation accuracy (mIoU +15%) and reduced manual inspections.

Video Motion Magnification for Structural Health Monitoring: 

  • Designed a real-time pipeline integrating classical Video Motion Magnification (VMM) with Neural architectures to detect micro-vibrations and structural anomalies.
  • Enhanced clarity of visual outputs and reduced artifacts for more accurate structural health assessments.

Information Retrieval & NLP for Political Insight Extraction from Twitter: 

  • Extracted political insights and user influence from 297K tweets during the 2020 U.S. elections using advanced NLP and IR techniques.
  • Achieved alignment with official results and state-level trends through stance detection (T5 + LLaMA3) and semantic clustering (Sentence-BERT).
  • Identified key political topics and top influencers within factions by building a user similarity network.

Optimization of ML Models for Dialogue Summarization: 

  • Fine-tuned T5 and Pegasus models on the Samsum dataset to improve summarization of complex dialogues.
  • Achieved significant improvements in summary quality, validated by ROUGE metrics.

Real-Time Data Analysis System with Apache Storm: 

  • Developed a Python application for real-time analysis of physiological data, simulating a body sensor network.
  • Implemented real-time ECG visualization, heart rate calculation, atrial fibrillation detection, stress level (HRV) analysis, fall detection, and movement tracking.
  • Enabled continuous monitoring with low latency using Apache Storm and Kafka.

Noisy and Imbalanced Image Segmentation with Mask R-CNN: 

  • Fine-tuned Mask R-CNN implemented in PyTorch and integrated with OpenCV for segmenting thin and complex objects in noisy, imbalanced datasets.
  • Improved segmentation metrics by 12% through data augmentation and class imbalance handling techniques.

Hobbies and Interests

Violinist with 11+ years of conservatory and private training, winner of three first-place solo competition prizes, and experienced concert performer. Passionate about training and nutrition. 

I focus on achieving excellent results and believe in the power of teamwork and meaningful connections.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Research Engineer (AI & ML)

Siemens PLM Software - UNICAL
01.2025 - Current

Research Intern (AI & NLP)

Concordia University
09.2024 - 12.2024

Master's Degree - AI & ML

Università Della Calabria (UNICAL)

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Engineering

Università Della Calabria (UNICAL)
Deborah Danieli