Artificial Intelligence meets human creativity

Pi School is a leading international institution that gathers game-changers in technology, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Headquartered in Rome, inside the startup community of Pi Campus, the School promotes the meeting of the latest state-of-the-art technology with the most innovative ideas.

Pi School is the meeting point for innovators, thinkers, and entrepreneurs. The school provides the best learning environment, networking opportunities, and insights on the latest business trends. Get inspired by real stories, learn with your peers, and explore new opportunities.

Tools to master the future

At Pi School, we understand, anticipate, and adapt to the new dynamics of the world. We fill the educational gap between college and the work market and provide tools for continuous learning, training talents to generate value and impact in artificial intelligence, design, creativity, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

Pi School is for people interested in coming together to exchange, expand their horizons and learn from one another to build an amazing future: highly skilled engineers, brilliant creative minds, young global talents,  innovators, experienced senior leaders and people who believe their ideas have the power to change the world.

Our community

    • Board of Directors
    • Team

    Isabelle Andrieu

    CEO
    Isabelle Andrieu is an entrepreneur and serial investor in startups. She has an adventurous career journey as she is Co-Founder of Translated one of the first Internet-based translation services, Co-Founder and First Citizen of Pi Campus. She masters change and defines balance as “finding peace while you’re climbing a ladder”. Isabelle takes care of the workplace's improvement, and she is the main point of reference for startups who need to hire new talents.
    • Board of Directors

    Marco Trombetti

    Co-founder & Serial Entrepreneur
    He is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in innovation. Besides being responsible for the overall administration of Translated, Marco is pursuing research in machine learning models for integrating machine translation in a human translation workflow. He invests in growth-stage technology ventures through Pi Campus.
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    • Faculty Advisors

    Jamshid Alamuti

    Co-founder

    Disrupter. Dedicated to everyone around him. Transformational strategist. Development expert. Creative leader. A born communicator. Those are some of the words used to describe his multifaceted nature. Alamuti's rare ability to bring different people together led him to his current project: combining technology and creativity, and apply them to innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership. His track record is wide and diversified, from Arts to Business, Educational and Personal Development. His latest project, Pi School, gathers his aspirations, expertise and recognition.

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    Sébastien Bratières

    Managing Director
    Sébastien plays an active role inside the startup district and venture fund Pi Campus, where he is Director of AI at Translated, and Managing Director at Pi School. After taking an Ingénieur degree from École Centrale Paris, and an MPhil in computer speech and language processing from the University of Cambridge, Sébastien spent 16 years in the speech and language industry in different European ventures. Moving on to machine learning and AI applications more broadly, he took a PhD in probabilistic machine learning with Zoubin Ghahramani at the University of Cambridge.
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    Valerio Lanni

    CFO
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    Cristiano De Nobili

    Lead AI Scientist
    Cristiano De Nobili is a Theoretical Physicist with a PhD in Quantum & Statistical Physics at SISSA in Trieste, Italy. With over seven years of experience in Deep Learning, he is currently the Lead AI Scientist at Pi School, working mainly on AI applied to environmental and climate challenges. He is a lecturer in Deep Learning at the Master in High-performance Computing (ICTP/SISSA, Trieste) and in Quantum Machine Learning at Ca’ Foscari College School. His focus has always been on emerging technologies, AI and Quantum tech, with collaborations ranging from European Space Agency to the SIOS Remote Sensing Centre in the Svalbard Islands.
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    Francesca Conversini

    Junior Operations Specialist
    Francesca Conversini takes on the role of Junior Operation Specialist at Pi School. In her previous experience, she was a dynamic Junior Account Manager at Translated with a strong foundation in sales and customer relationship management. She managed international client requests, improved workflows to increase client conversion rates and delivered excellent customer service. Francesca holds a Master's degree in Interpreting and Translation from UNINT - Rome, with top marks. Skilled in various IT tools and fluent in several languages, she excels in problem-solving, communication and teamwork, making her a valuable asset to any organisation.
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    Enzo Fabiani

    Project Manager
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    Vijayasri Iyer

    Machine Learning Scientist
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    Àlex Ramírez Atrio

    Senior Deep Learning Scientist
    Àlex Ramírez Atrio covers the role of Senior Deep Learning Scientist at Pi School, currently working on LLM4EO, an open source LLM for Earth Observation and Earth Sciences in collaboration with the European Space Agency Φ-lab. He obtained his PhD in Natural Language Processing at EPFL and HEIG-VD (Switzerland), focusing on machine translation and language generation under the supervision of Andrei Popescu-Belis. His work has mainly focused on low-resource languages and domains, improving sequence-to-sequence models, and developing efficient multilingual and multitasking models. Before his PhD, he obtained a Master's degree in Cognitive Science from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, with a thesis on cross-lingual sentiment analysis, and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the Universitat de Barcelona, specialising in Logic and Philosophy of Language and Science.
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    Marcello Politi

    Machine Learning Scientist
    Marcello Politi holds a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, specialising in Artificial Intelligence. He was a fellow at the Pi School of AI in Q2 2022, where he honed his skills in document retrieval and natural language processing. Since 2022, he has been part of the AI team at the Pi School as a machine learning scientist. Passionate about space, he has worked for ESA - European Space Agency. Marcello is an active member of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) and as an event manager he helped organise Mission Control TTX, the first SGAC hackathon. This event, in collaboration with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, focused on the intersection of cybersecurity and space applications.
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    Maytee Rodriguez

    Programme Development & Communication Coach
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    Lucia Bracci

    Communication Strategist
    Lucia Bracci is a Communication Strategist at Pi School. She is responsible for developing and implementing effective communication strategies that target various stakeholders, including students, partners, and sponsors. This includes managing social media accounts, designing marketing campaigns, producing engaging content for the school's website, and ensuring all communication aligns with the organization's values and objectives. Furthermore, Lucia's role requires her to analyze and interpret data to measure the effectiveness of communication strategies and make necessary adjustments to improve outcomes. Through her work, she helps strengthen Pi School's reputation and brand and contributes to its success as a leader in digital innovation education.
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    Andrea Capitani

    Business Development
    • Scientific Committee

    Marcello Federico

    Scientific Board - Pi School
    A pioneer in Machine Translation, Marcello’s research focuses on methods to integrate human and automated translation. Marcello is the co-founder and scientific advisor of MateCat and ModernMT, a project which aims to deliver real-time domain-adaptive neural machine translation. After several years of experience, he serves as a Sr. Principal Scientist at Amazon. Marcello has co-authored over 180 scientific publications on machine translation, language modelling, speech recognition, and information retrieval. He has been a committee member at all the major international industry conferences and a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM. Marcello graduated “summa cum laude” from the University of Milan in 1989.
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    Hassan Sawaf

    Scientific Committee - School of AI
    After completing his PhD at RWTH Aachen, Hassan started off as a researcher, but quickly branched out and set up a speech-to-speech translation company. He has served as a CEO or Chief Scientist for several ventures in the speech recognition industry. He joined eBay in 2013 and became Head of AI before leaving to head up Amazon's AI where he was Director of AI for 2 years. Hassan serves as a board member and advisor for a number of AI companies which he helped to found, including Witlingo and Gyant. Hassan also makes angel investments through Keiretsu.
    • Scientific Committee

    Alex Waibel

    Scientific Committee - School of AI
    A pioneer in neural network speech recognition, Alex invented time-delay networks in 1989 as part of his PhD at CMU, having previously graduated from MIT with a BSc in 1979. In addition to his academic career, he has co-founded 10 successful commercial ventures. One of these, Jibbigo, was acquired by Facebook in 2013, leading Alex to found Facebook's Language Technologies group. He has received more prizes and distinctions than we have space to list here, and is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the German Academy of Sciences.