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Education

• Ph.D in Applied Electronics, Roma Tre University, April 2025. Thesis: “Scene Understanding with Sound using Artificial Intelligence Techniques” under the supervision of Prof. Marco Carli and Prof. Alessandro Neri.
• M.Sc. in ICT for Internet and Multimedia, University of Padua, 2021. Thesis: “Pointcloud object detection and classification for railway applications” under the supervision of Prof. Federica Battisti.
• B.Sc. in Information Engineering, University of Padua, 2019. Thesis: “Monitoring of network resources using Nagios Core Application” under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Zanella.

Work experience

• November 2024 - Present: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • Tampere University
  • Audio Deepfake Detection
• Summer 2021: Artificial Intelligence Engineer
  • RadioLabs, Consorzio Università Industria – Laboratori di Radiocomunicazioni.
  • Deep learning techniqes for 3D object detection in point clouds (M. Sc. Thesis).
• 2016 - 2018: IT Intern
  • Gruppo Battistolli S.p.A.
  • IT Help desk, network resources monitoring with Nagios Framework (B. Sc. Thesis).

Skills

• Programming Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, Matlab, C#, C++, LaTeX
• Strong theoretical background regarding Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Neural Networks.
  • Audio processing with Artificial Intelligence Techniques.
  • Advanced knowledge of Pytorch, Keras, Tensorflow.
• Knowledge of Telecommunications networks.

Publications

Multi-channel Replay Speech Detection using an Adaptive Learnable Beamformer

M. Neri, and T. Virtanen, "SMulti-channel Replay Speech Detection using an Adaptive Learnable Beamformer," in IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, Early Access, 2025, doi: 10.1109/OJSP.2025.3568758.

Low-Complexity Patch-based No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Metric exploiting Weighted Structure and Texture Features

M. Neri and F. Battisti, "Low-Complexity Patch-based No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Metric exploiting Weighted Structure and Texture Features," in IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Early Access, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TBC.2025.3553305.

Enhancing Occupational Safety and Health Training: A Guideline for Virtual Reality Integration

M. Bernabei et al., "Enhancing Occupational Safety and Health Training: A Guideline for Virtual Reality Integration," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 154349-154364, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3481668.

Low-complexity Attention-based Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection exploiting Separable Convolutions and Angular Loss

M. Neri and M. Carli, "Low-Complexity Attention-Based Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection Exploiting Separable Convolutions and Angular Loss," in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 1-4, Nov. 2024, Art no. 6014404, doi: 10.1109/LSENS.2024.3480450.

Speaker Distance Estimation in Enclosures from Single-Channel Audio

M. Neri, A. Politis, D. A. Krause, M. Carli and T. Virtanen, "Speaker Distance Estimation in Enclosures From Single-Channel Audio," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 32, pp. 2242-2254, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2024.3382504

No-Reference Light Field Image Quality Assessment Exploiting Saliency

K. Lamichhane, M. Neri, F. Battisti, P. Paudyal and M. Carli, "No-Reference Light Field Image Quality Assessment Exploiting Saliency," in IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 790-800, Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TBC.2023.3242150.

Sound Event Detection for Human Safety and Security in Noisy Environments

M. Neri, F. Battisti, A. Neri and M. Carli, "Sound Event Detection for Human Safety and Security in Noisy Environments," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 134230-134240, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3231681.

Talks

Teaching

• 2025 - Present
  • COMP.SGN.340 Speech Processing, Teaching Assistant @ Tampere University
• 2022 - 2024
  • Ethical Hacking (M. Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering), Exam committee member @ Roma Tre University
  • Multimedia Laboratory (B. Sc. in Electronic Engineering), Exam committee member @ Roma Tre University
  • Cybersecurity for Telecommunications (M. Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering), Exam committee member @ Roma Tre University