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.
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    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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    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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    Maria Luisa Puglisi

    Operations and Administrative Coordinator
    Maria Luisa Puglisi has extensive experience in project coordination and operational management in multicultural and multilingual environments. From 2017 to 2020, she served as Deputy Director of the Amaranta Solidarity Foundation, leading the launch of new delegations and the expansion of social care programmes. From 2020 to 2024, she took on the role of General Director, implementing new projects at national and European levels, fostering the promotion of new programmes, accompanying growth as a working group and supporting the Foundation's international cooperation.

    In December 2024, Maria Luisa joined Pi School as Administrative and Operations Coordinator, ensuring optimal resource management, stakeholder engagement and implementation of strategic initiatives. Her commitment strengthens the school's mission and fosters a collaborative and effective organisational environment.
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    Enzo Fabiani

    Project Manager
    Enzo Fabiani is a Project Manager and part of the Pi School's Business Development team, passionate about integrating state-of-the-art AI models into businesses. He has managed European and large-scale initiatives such as EDITH CSA and the ESA Collaborative Innovation Network, handling project planning, providing technological and scientific expertise, and leading cross-disciplinary partners.

    Before joining Pi School, Enzo co-founded SÆROS, a startup that developed modeling technology for UAVs specialized in agriculture. He also earned a PhD in physics from the University of Paris at IJCLab, focusing on complex systems and collective dynamic models related to brain tumors. Enzo possesses extensive teaching experience in modeling as a lecturer and holds a Business Foundation Certificate from the MBA-like program designed for PhDs at INSEAD.
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    Vijayasri Iyer

    Machine Learning Scientist
    Vijayasri Iyer is a Machine Learning Scientist at Pi School, where she has managed multiple international teams in developing AI-powered solutions, focusing on Generative AI and LLMs. An alumna of the Pi School of AI (Q3 2022), she is currently working on EVE, an open-source large language model for Earth Observation and Earth Sciences, in collaboration with the European Space Agency's Φ-lab. She also leads engineering efforts on Trallie, a project funded by the NGI Search consortium, redefining unstructured document search using LLMs.

    Holding a Bachelor’s degree in IT and a Master’s in AI with Honors from India, Vijayasri has also earned certifications, including the Credentials of Readiness (Harvard Business School Online), Public Policy (specialised in Technology Policy) and AI Safety. Outside of her work in AI, she is a certified yoga instructor and a trained musician.
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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 EVE, 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

    Program Development & Communication Coach
    Maytee Rodríguez is a Program Development & Communication Specialist at Pi School, passionate about designing and implementing innovative educational and creative programs. Drawing on her background in design and theatre, she brings a unique blend of strategic thinking and creative problem-solving to her work.

    Maytee is dedicated to fostering engaging learning experiences and building strong international collaborations. She also provides training in effective communication, focusing on clarity, persuasion, and adaptability across diverse audiences and contexts.
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    Lucia Bracci

    Communication Manager
    Lucia Bracci has a strong background in managing communications for technology-focused organisations. In 2008, she joined Pi Campus, where she played a key role in the growth of Translated until 2013 and Memopal until 2017. From 2017 to 2021, she worked as a freelance consultant, specialising in digital marketing strategies for a diverse client base. Since 2021, Lucia has been part of Pi School as Communication Manager. Her role entails developing and implementing effective communication strategies that engage students, partners, and sponsors. Additionally, she oversees social media accounts, designs impactful marketing campaigns, creates engaging content for the school's website, and ensures all communication aligns with Pi School's values and goals. Lucia's work strengthens Pi School's presence and fosters connections across its growing community.
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    Xuechun Hu

    Compliance Specialist
    Xuechun Hu is an experienced legal professional with expertise in copyright and compliance, currently supporting two Pi School LLM projects, EVE and Meetween. With a strong background in M&A advisory and regulatory compliance, she previously worked at KPMG before completing her MBA at SDA Bocconi. Xuechun combines her legal acumen with business insight to navigate complex legal issues.
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    Antonio Lopez

    Deep Learning Scientist
    Antonio Lopez is a passionate developer with a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Bologna, specialising in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. He gained international experience at McGill University and contributed to the MAI4CAREU project. Antonio is working as a Deep Learning Scientist on the EVE project, an open-source LLM for Earth Observation and Earth Sciences, in collaboration with the European Space Agency's Φ-lab. Outside work, he enjoys playing the guitar, with jazz being one of his favourite genres.
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    Giuseppe Tanzi

    Deep Learning Scientist
    Deep Learning Scientist at Pi School, currently working on the VideoLoc project, which focuses on video localisation and subtitle quality estimation. He specialises in natural language processing and large language models and has a computer vision and reinforcement learning background. Giuseppe holds a Master's degree in AI from the University of Bologna and has contributed to research on processing legal texts, which was published at SemEval-2023. Previously an AI engineer at EDAG Group, he aligned AI solutions with business strategy through advanced prompt engineering. Giuseppe also has a broad interest in finance, entrepreneurship and meteorology.
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    Alberto Ares

    Business Development & Strategic Partnerships
    With over a decade of experience in B2B technology sales, Alberto has worked with leading firms such as Gartner, Brandwatch, and various tech startups across Europe. Holding a degree in Economics and trained in consultative sales methodologies like Value Selling, he specializes in helping companies navigate innovation through impactful technology solutions. Alberto is passionate about the intersection of AI, business transformation, and scalable innovation. At Pi School, he plays a key role in driving growth by building strategic partnerships and unlocking new opportunities with organizations ready to harness AI for real-world impact. Outside of work, Alberto enjoys mindfulness, motorcycling, personal development, nature, and Latin dance.
    • 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.
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    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.