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  Trieste, Italy

Jacopo Zacchigna

Master's student in Data Science & AI · SPAR Research Fellow

I’m a final-year Master’s student in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Trieste, focused on deep learning and mech interp.

I want to understand how LLMs work internally and how we can use that knowledge to build better and safer systems for the future.


Recent work · SPAR fellow on Implicit Personalization — probing the internal user models LLMs build (persona vectors). See the project page for details.

In parallel: mechanistic interpretability of Mixture-of-Experts models (OLMoE, GPT-OSS) — adapting HeadPursuit / SOMP to expert specialization.


Background · B.S. and M.S. at the University of Trieste (2021–2026) · AI Consultant at Obloo (2024–2025) · Published in MDPI Plants

Tooling · PyTorch · NNsight / nnterp · Hugging Face · CUDA · OpenMP · Slurm · Python · C/C++

🇮🇹 Italian (native) · 🇬🇧 English (C1)

selected publications

  1. Toward automated extraction of metadata from herbarium specimen labels
    Jacopo Zacchigna and others
    Plants, 2026