Hey, I'm Francesco
ML PhD Candidate @ UniTrento
Supervised by Jacopo Staiano and Elisa Ricci.
Who am I? 2nd-year PhD candidate at the University of Trento, Italy. Part of the Italian National AI PhD program (UniPisa), member of MHUG lab, and collaborating with travelbrain.me on applied ML problems.
Working on AI Agents and MLLMs. I like multimodal stuff.
My background? MSc in AI Systems & Computer Vision.
out-of-research Gym enthusiast, runner, video editing fan, and LTF member. Check out my YT channel airFranz!
Say 
Reach me at francesco.laiti@{unitn.it, phd.unipi.it} or connect with me on LinkedIn.
Find me online on GitHub and X/Twitter.
news
| Nov 14, 2025 |  Submitted our work to CVPR 2026, fingers crossed! |
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| Oct 23, 2025 |  Began tutoring Introduction to AI @ DEM, University of Trento (1st Semester) |
| Sep 27, 2025 |  Honored to have been selected as a mentee (with an acceptance rate below 15%) to join the LeadTheFuture community! |
| Aug 07, 2025 | 💠Introducing QuietRoom — Your thoughts, your device. Period. — Google Gemma 3n Impact Challenge live demo - tech brief - submission (give me an upvote!) |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 🤗 Earned certifications from HF Agent Course & HF MCP Course! |