Giovanni Spadaro

Data Science master student


Education

Oct 2022 - Present
MSc in Data Science
University of Catania, Catania, IT
Areas of study: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Statistics, Data Analytics.
Sep 2018 — Oct 2022
BSc in Computer Engineering
University of Catania, Catania, IT
Thesis: Predictive algorithms' application in medical diagnosis
Advisor: Prof. Maurizio Palesi
Final grade: 110/110. Areas of study: Computer Science, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Electronics, Automation.
Thesis Repository

Academic Research Experience

Feb - May 2023
University of Catania, Catania, IT
Research assistant
Supervisors: Prof. Francesco Beritelli, Ing. Michele Russo
Study and implementation of SOTA GAN based architectures for anomaly detection in industrial multivariate time-series datasets. Training and evaluation of such models in order to provide a baseline aimed at predictive maintenance and early machineries fault detection. Technologies: GANs, LSTMs, PyTorch, Scikit-learn.

Industrial Experience

Jun - Jul 2024
Silk Shells Consulting, Remote
Data Scientist
Designed and implemented a multiclass classification system to evaluate candidate profiles, leveraging advanced feature engineering across both structured datasets and unstructured text sources. Built an interactive Gradio web application to demonstrate the system’s prototype and support rapid model validation and overall feedbacks. Deployed a scalable, production-grade inference infrastructure on AWS, ensuring reliable model serving and smooth integration with existing business workflows. Technologies and Services: AWS (mainly SageMaker, Lambda), Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Pandas, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, OpenAI APIs, HuggingFace Spaces, Git.

Teaching Experience

Sep 2022 - Present
Superprof, Remote - Catania, IT
Private Professor
Private lessons of Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Electrotechnics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision for MSc, BSc and high school students. Make students grow academically and get them excited about scientific subjects.

Volunteering

Nov 2024 - Present
UNICT FSC, Catania, IT
Automotive software engineer
I'm part of the Low Voltage division of the Catania team taking that should take part in the Formula SAE competition. My role since now has been to manage the workflow of the Low and High Voltage divisions and taking part to the R&D of a communication system based on the CAN-bus protocol.

Courses, Hackathons, Certificates and others

Nov 2024
University of Catania, IBM, Catania, IT
Qiskit Fall Fest Catania 2024
Series of seminars about Basics of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Computing and Qiskit framework. Solving 3 sets of challenges using Qiskit.
Certificate Repository
Oct - Dec 2023
University of Catania, Catania, IT
How to build and use a Big Data Platform on the AWS Cloud
Understand the basics of cloud computing and modern data architectures and learn about the main AWS technologies for creating and managing Data Storage, Data Processing and Data Analysis steps.
Certificate
Apr - Jul 2023
Wylab, Remote - Chiavari, IT
Volley Data Analyst
Match analysis, opposition scouting e talent scouting from Volleyball scout datasets.
Certificate Register
Jan - May 2023
University of Catania, Samsung Italy, Catania, IT
Samsung Innovation Campus
Series of lessons about Machine Learning, Deep Learning, IoT and Cyber Security from UNICT professors and Samsung experts. Development of an innovative group project: Hexagarden, an intelligent home wall garden.
Certificate Project pitch
Mar 2023
Opinno, Catania, IT
Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Introduction to the AWS platform.
Certificate
May 2019
Var Group, Riccione, IT
MasterTech Hackathon 2019
Solve a business problem related to the supermarket checkout queue forecast in 32 hours using Machine Learning techniques.
Mar 2018
Ofqual, Catania, IT
Cambridge First Certificate B2
Certificate

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