Andrea Gentilini

I am an MSc student in Mathematics in Data Science at TUM, and active TUM.ai member. My research experience includes working as an AI Research Intern at Siemens AG to improve proprietary foundation models, and as a Research Collaborator at IBM Research, where I work on tool calling in Small Language Models. I am also involved with the Data Science Lab (Dlab) at EPFL, working with Prof. Robert West. I received my BSc in Mathematical Sciences for Artificial Intelligence from Sapienza University of Rome. In Rome, I worked in the GLADIA research group, advised by Emanuele Rodolà, with a thesis on tokenizing latent representations for efficient high-fidelity music generation. During my time there, I also contributed as an Autonomous Driving Engineer for the Sapienza Fast Charge team. In addition to my academic path, I enjoy hackathons, Caribbean dances, sports, connecting with people, trips, and stepping out of my comfort zone.